"Mostly better off". Like frequent flyers. Always the same groups.

One of the many reasons to prefer trains !
(Although you then get 'connection anxiety' )

English indices of deprivation 2025 Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England. Further details are provided at the bottom of this page and in the FAQ document.

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (IoD25) and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD25) are published today. This is an update in the series, following on from the 2019 #deprivation indices.

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@simonmaarfield.bsky.social just seen your profile has Trutnov station on it! I'd recognise that one car train anywhere (even not in Trutnov) ...

Just think of the planning implications...

It also has an application in urban planning.
Victims can be neighbours, or even birds and bees. Either way noone and no thing can ever be hurt or matter how big the collective benefit.

This is brilliant - and original.

Art-deco flats, Schaerbeek 1929. 4 units on the footprint of the single house each resident might have occupied before WW1. Meaning 4 cookers, 4 gramophones, 4 telephones, etc. From the rentier economy to the consumer society.

Proper sun hats work much better anyway, so I have migrated to them to save my ears and neck.

Like taxes, wealth is for other people.

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Pierwszy taki wyrok w Polsce. Firma straciła kontrakt przez błędne użycie AI Firma Exdrog, ubiegająca się o kontrakt na utrzymanie dróg w Małopolsce, wykorzystała sztuczną inteligencję do przygotowania wyjaśnień mających przekonać zamawiającego, że zaoferowana przez nią cen...

Interesting case in Poland: a company lost tender for a construction contract after providing 280 pages of documentation which turned out to be AI generated and full of AI hallucinations (which was picked by the competitor).

My bet is they hoped nobody will bother to read so much paperwork.

All the talk of 'supply' seems to envisage a world in which all 'consumers' somehow have equal buying power. (Hence the weird comparisons to loaves of bread.)

The huge gap between effective demand and need is at the heart of housing problems.

And a bus service which I bet will not be a guaranteed connection.

New Skelmersdale railway station ‘compromise’ site for town backed by transport chief A new railway station on the outskirts of Skelmersdale could be a cost-effective “compromise” solution to bringing trains back to the town after a near 70-year absence.

Skelmersdale full retreat. Safeguarded site for station to be scrapped in favour of parkway at Pimbo
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💯. All this romanticising about private housebuilding in the 30s ignores (1) the terrible housing conditions faced by poor people (2) the massive achievement of council housing building in the 30s and (3) the huge costs of urban sprawl.

Just saying, today is half over already.

Happy New Time everyone!

In France you can't make a phone call in ANY carriage. You must use the 'vestibule'. So ashamed of the UK selfish culture.

Including urban planning

Building capacity starts with reframing what the state is for – not just a fixing markets but actively shaping the economy towards clear outcomes.

Join me at 17:30 BST today for as I deliver the Reynolds Lecture at Emmanuel College Cambridge ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/8205288804...

MARTIN LUTHER (1483 - 1546) "On Trading and Usury" "The merchants... say: I may sell my goods as dear as I can ... Now what good is there in trade? How can it be without sin when such injustice is the chief maxim and the rule of the whole business? On this basis trade can be nothing else than robbing and stealing other people's property."

Martin Luther, a #Lutheran, says trade should be in a caring community. Selling as dear as you can is just theft.

Would you tolerate $100 hot dogs at church social / VBS? If that seems unkind, then you can see Luther’s ethic.

How can you avoid stealing other people’s property?
#tencommandments

Putting burdens on developers is a secret way of transferring wealth from new households to existing land and property owners. A nasty trick which has been played since about 1990.

Let’s fall in love with cars again Investing more into roads will only mean higher economic returns for the UK

Let’s not

think this by @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social is critical bc the Shinkansen has been understood/sold as a postwar Japanese invention with no blemishes from the past Imperial state, built from conception to operation in >20 years. but turns out it had a longer runway cleared out by the previous regime

Northumberland Line latest: Blyth gets a new railway station Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once

Northumberland Line latest: Blyth gets a new railway station
Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once

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Rail station car parking: it seems that either Network Rail, or the regulator, has rules against reducing private car parking spaces at rail stations. In Oxford, we have a half-empty car park on prime real estate. We'd like to use it for other things. See below campaign. (1/2)

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Doesn't stop many southern trains- they simply ask you to be in the correct carriage.

Just sent by email.