Rob

Australian state bans DIY e-bikes on trains, permits manufactured models Australian state New South Wales has got its head around the difference between a DIY e-bike and a manufactured product,

It is possible to differentiate between DIY e-bikes and manufactured e-bikes, so says the Australian state of New South Wales, which has now banned DIY from its trains, all the while still encouraging manufactured e-bikes.

www.cyclingelectric.com/news/e-bikes...

This playing sounds remarkably like the guitar sound on Jolene - ashamed to say I never knew she played!

Providing specifically for cycling seems totally absent from Hackney's delivered schemes in the past few years. At best it is tolerated.

@sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social hi- FYI the Chatsworth Road camera has been knocked off angle (it's now pointing at the sky) - there's an adjacent cctv camera on Clifden Road so probably possible to identify the vandals that did it.

All fair points, and tbh I don't expect anything innovative out of Hackney at all based on current form, though I'd love to be surprised by the Dalston LTN. Don't you want the already established dominance of cycle numbers over motors for a cycle st? Are there any that spring to mind in Newham?

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This is an incredibly powerful way to frame your argument. It got me a few years ago via a Greta T speech to the UN: "My grandchildren one day will ask me about YOU (room full of powerful old men)". Not that I have much in common with them, but I quit my job and went to work for a local authority

Every morning I wake up and see various bits of horrific news from the US, and the Manics' "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" pings into my head.

Wait, aren't the incentives of "because it's the right thing to do" or "it might save this or even another child's life" enough??

Great piece. My pedantry has bested me apologies... You've fallen into the worst end-preposition trap of them all in the middle there, though! "But we all also have things [up] with which we simply will not fucking put."...Off I shall now fuck

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...

Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social : shout about achieving this please, while the vandals and wreckers at the Conservative and Reform parties peddle their lies ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Middleton Road, on C27 , sees 75%+ movement by two wheelers with very low traffic levels, as you can see in the data. Is there any appetite for pushing the envelope among Cllrs and officers in @hackneycouncil.bsky.social , @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social ?

England's 'first official Cycle Street' being built in Cambridge It aims to make one of the city's busiest routes safer by giving cyclists priority over motorists.

Cambridge again leading... we have a perfect candidate for a cycle street in Hackney, on a major cycle route through an LTN...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the profile of Middleton Road in Hackney - ideal candidate, IMHO

The Welsh 20mph default reduced casualties by 25% and insurance costs by £90m. If done in England expect reductions of 15,000 casualties pa and insurance by £2bn pa. Implementation cost would be approx £0.5bn. For comparison, 1st yr depreciation on new cars registered in England in 2024 was £78bn

There's a great candidate in Hackney
, on C27 and in the London fields LTN, on which approaching 80% of movement is cycles, and traffic volumes are very low.

Japandroids "post-nothing" album unexpectedly got me like a five minute PB on the jog home from work. That was fun

Oh dear!

100% on price is ridiculous! As a semantic q, though - do you "conform" to guidance, rather than comply, then?

It's very hard to believe that it's a single shot!

You have far more supporters than opponents/detractors. Keep up the good work!

“Nothing to Do With Reform?” The Myth of Nathan Gill’s Bribery The bribery started the day he quit UKIP and continued under Farage’s leadership. The press have barely said a word

One of Nigel Farage's close allies of the past decade found guilty of taking Russian bribes, and barely a story. Reckon it'll come up in Laura Kuennsberg's next cosy interview? monkdebunks.substack.com/p/nothing-to...

I Iive in London - just interested in what you think has been "done" to it, and by whom?

YouTube video by Transport Accident Commission Victoria There's no one someone won't miss - Man on the street - Towards Zero

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHhi...

And presumably that fantastic Australian TV spot about vision zero was a direct result of his work

Just imagine. Imagine how great it would be to have our public (that's right they're ours!) streets as free and open as this again.

Equally where a chosen position (which will be driven to extrmemes in the search for likes or matrerial which generates the algorithmic interactions) becomes a key part of one's identity or in-group ststus

To which the answer is simply and surely : "the cyclist, being Not a Montrous Threat to Life, nor encased in 2-tonnes of soundproofed metal box, but a person with regular senses and sensibilities, will say "after you" and a pleasant human interaction will have taken place, brightening everyone's day

I probably was having a dig, Apologies. - the (to my mind) glib "magic grandpa" terminology touched a nerve.

No no, radicalisation-by-twitter is bad whichever way it leads, and there's types in every camp.