Paul Gannon

YouTube video by Exposed: UK Dash Cams Shorts Thank you to Richard for the clip!

Perhaps a licence system for cyclists would help?
www.youtube.com/shorts/ryPBK...

What's been going wrong at Deutsche Bahn?
From 'Monocle':

Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

1/ Driving an SUV is selfish, anti-social, and unethical, but we have allowed advertisers to paint it as highly desirable

Happily there's a much more powerful force than advertising - the judgement of our friends and peers

Maybe it's time to start wielding it

Darlington businesses paying punters' parking in bid to bring custom back to town Darlington businesses have taken matters into their own hands by paying customers’ parking charges in a bid to bring punters back to the town…

I wonder why the businesses are not offering to refund customers bus fares?
Oh that's right, motonormativity. They don't see past car drivers.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2540275...

Chatting to a nurse at the hospital when I visited told me she gets into work half-an-hour early to secure a parking place.

I wonder how the economics of 'free' parking plays out in such circumstances. It seems availability matters more than cost.

EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US… Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are at increased risk as the rapid rise in monster US pick-up trucks on Europe’s roads is set to accelerate after the…

As part of VDL's trade war surrender to Trump, the EU has promised to lower its vehicle safety & pollution standards.

NGO @transenv.bsky.social calls it a "betrayal of all EU citizens" forcing "monster 🇺🇸pick-up trucks" into Europe that will increase pedestrian deaths.

Train travel becoming cheaper than flying - "Very slowly the difference in price between train and air travel is beginning to narrow, but not quickly enough for Greepeace"

Zo ontwerpen Zweden hun eigen straten in de 1-minuut stad Met Street Moves kunnen inwoners van Zweden hun straat mede vormgeven met modulair straatmeubilair. Straten worden er leefbaarder en flexibeler van.

Met het project Street Moves kunnen inwoners van Zweden hun straat mede vormgeven met modulair straatmeubilair. Sinds 2020 wordt hiermee geëxperimenteerd om straten leefbaarder en flexibeler in te richten.
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Even with PR it will be possible, essential indeed, for the leading party (across the council) to be elected with less than 50%, requiring working in coalition. The Greens should be working as much on working in coalition as on election.

The cash & resources, around $500 million, being accumulated to create "a Europe unshackled from environmentalism".

That assumes the objective is undertake even limited change to improve safety. But if the objective is to tinker at the edges while upsetting as few people as possible, this is what you get must expect.

Nothing to see here. Just cycling infrastructure improving emergency services response times in London...

#biketooter

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week."

This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.

#visionzero #publichealth

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It would also undermine one of the anti-LTN's commonest claims, that people want LTNs for themselves plus the right to driver anywhere in neighbouring areas; but if several LTNs form a larger entity this latter advantage does not actually exist.
Eg: Camden Town, Kentish Town & other areas (London).

I went to see a high-tech manuacturing business. They had half-a-dozen electronics & software engineers (2 at post-PhD level) plus half-a-dozen staff who managed line & filled cardboard boxes for despatching products. But in Ireland's case it is very much to do with its tax policies being attractive

The 'close one' with high prodn per person illustrates the potential for us to read too much into any one statistic. In this case the stat reflects the tax policies of the 'close one', not its production achievements. Need here is to relate distribution of high-tech & low-tech manf to each nation.

My experience with LS is from some time ago (when thePA rep on Camden council, a LibDem cllr, voted against the RCS & Tavipl after appearing supportive) I was for a while a trustee. The board was roughly divided into cycle haters & those who wanted a 'progressive' transport policy.

I'd say it is "a sense of ownership".

Emory University rejection letter from 1959.

Days after @desmog.com published an article highlighting the Telegraph's links to fossil fuel interests, the paper was at it again this weekend - shoehorning an attack on climate policy into a story about (checks notes) NHS spending...

BBC R4 Today programme is making great efforts to 'get down & speak with the people', using whenever feasible the local lingo with a discussion this morning with one contributor talking about the 'Prelapsarian Realm' (in this case meaning not the Garden of Eden but the British coast).

“No one should suffer this heartbreak”: Family of cyclist killed in collision with a driver call for “immediate deployment of speed and road traffic cameras” 71-year-old Barry Shonibare became the fourth person to be killed cycling in London in 2025, with a cycling group adding the location of crash was known to be dangerous, “with high motor vehicle speed...

“Our family, alongside the police, seek justice and resolution”

Family of cyclist killed in collision with a driver calls for “immediate deployment of speed and road traffic cameras”

Why we should all stop using 'X" - because "it is nothing more than an emotion-stoking hate machine aimed to forward the narrow political agenda and world view of its owner."

Enschede becomes the first Dutch town to ban 'fatbikes' from the town centre, declaring that they are motor bikes disguised as bicycles.

typical Swiss ingenuity. no doubt helped by the fact that Switzerland is not dominated by fossil fuel companies.

YouTube video by Mark Felton Productions Operation Clockwork Orange - Secret Military Coup Against British Prime Minister

See this film, 1975, UK:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmKI...

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London reduce road traffic injuries: a controlled before-and-after analysis (2012–2024) Background Between 2015 and 2024, 113 Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) were implemented across Greater London, with 27 subsequently removed. We investigated their impacts on road traffic injuries ins...

Yet another credible academic study published today, this time in the BMJ, showing that LTNs significantly cut road traffic injuries. To no one's surprise.

injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...

John is better at 'smoke-filled rooms' stuff, it's his natural habitat & I'm sure he's worked hard at backing the anti-bus bypass campaigners, giving them the benefit of his lobbying over noise issues.