Tom Pike

A Tesla parked fully on the pavement next to double yellow lines, reg LB69CEO

This CEO Tesla driver can't keep off the pavement #YPLAC

They won't think about the time taken to park (often not directly by the school), plus time to get into/out of car, and from parked car to school gate... It's a similar distance to the local primary for us, I think they journey would be longer by car than on foot once you have factored in the above.

Spinning your wheels Sir, R.L. Vickers ("Freight of history", Letters, Eye 1654) asserts that "public transport eats taxes, private transport provides tax revenues.” In fact, the hidden costs of motoring's many downsides far outweigh the tax receipts. These socialised costs - gridlock, air and noise pollution, emergency services costs, road damage, public health impacts from sedentary lifestyles and deaths from road crashes - are met only partially by motorists. Motoring taxation raises about £40bn per year, while a recent report from the Royal College of Physicians estimates that the annual cost of air pollution alone is as much as £50bn. If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires. CARLTON REID, Motoring journalist and author of "Roads Were Not Built for Cars", Newcastle on Tyne.

“If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires.”

My letter about the hidden costs of motoring is in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Nottingham: Bus front door entry/exit, tram multiple entry/exit
Derby: Bus front door entry/exit

Would the evidence that trans women have been using women's spaces for decades without any problems be sufficient?

Why would they do that?

NRS buy them from suppliers then hire them out to the NHS, to make a profit.

If the NHS did the sourcing and purchasing themselves, they would likely be able to achieve savings (as no private profit would be generated). NHS is vast - a dedicated team would pay for itself.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Geoffrey Hinton (formerly of Google) explained his view: AI excels at cognitive tasks, whereas tasks requiring manual dexterity and/or emotional intelligence are weaknesses. So jobs such as skilled tradespersons, some physical labourers (as per your e.g.), healthcare workers and teachers are safer.

Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets

Ed Milliband is about the only reason to have faith in labour.
He is right.
We do need to continue to step up efforts to get to net zero and tackle the climate emergency.
Change has already happened, and UK weather is more extreme so we need to double down.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ok, an update on the Bus Services (No.2) Bill, which some people and organisations were trying to use to ban the use of floating bus stops which would have ended the ability to build cycle tracks in England in many circumstances.

The committee stage has finished and in this specific area,

1/n

My public transport commute went up by more than 10% between last year & this. If this were happening to drivers, it would be presented by media as a national crisis. Instead, it is happening to people making a choice we should be encouraging and disproportionately to those least able to afford it.

a bus stop floating in front of a car park and access road

Etwall Rd in Derby, c2012 - a thins strip of pavement, with a dropped kerb at the far end but no provision or easy access to the shops behind the floating bus stop/car park and access road. Still present today

I mean this most sincerely... Only £37k? Is this running costs alone, or does it include all of the hidden (read: un-thought-about-daily) costs of motoring e.g. servicing, insurance, VED, vehicle depreciation etc? Not to mention the price of improved health...

Before making grand predictions about what Nigel Farage might do in power, a lot of excitable UK commentators and analysts might want to look at another West European state where a far right populist one-man band party actually tries and fails to develop the discipline needed to stay inpower

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Councils would be able to buy land for cycling routes without owners' consent under MP's new proposal Liberal Democrat MP urges amendment to government Planning and Infrastructure bill to enable English councils to override landowners to implement active travel routes

This is a very good idea.
I've heard previously about proposed schemes that were abandoned because landowners either refused, or wanted silly money for strips of land for active travel.
We do it for roads, why not for AT schemes?
road.cc/content/news...

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

Ah right, so not something that could be retroactively activated via software, but new hardware needed. Thanks! Will try to find out what existing hardware is and go from there.

@mrmjprice.bsky.social Can I ask - how is the data for @a38cycleway.bsky.social generated, do you know? I was speaking to a Cllr here in Burton and we have several cycle routes with cameras, and he was wondering if it might be possible to get user numbers. Many thanks in advance!

Parklife!

I wish this sort of transparency was a national thing. Here (Staffs/Derby border) I receive little to no feedback, or it is (incorrectly) withheld under GDPR, and there is no data release. At least Derbys has an Op Snap equivalent - Staffs request a report then, at a later time, request the video.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Two SUVs parked, both part-way outside of their respective parking spaces

A double score! @yplac.bsky.social @therealyplac.bsky.social