Grant Hamilton

Oh, Illustrator’s a good idea. I just struggle through the Strava route builder. I’ll check out Ride With GPS once things warm up here, too. Thanks!

How do you plan your Strava art? I haven’t found a tool that really works, and doing it manually is tedious (although that also makes it pretty rewarding when it works)

Huh! I was looking for them along the bottom, and didn’t even test those out. Thank you!

Where!? It was literally moving from a Google Sheet to a Google Doc that sparked this. I’m aware of headings in the sidebar, but they a) require headings; and b) scroll within the same document. What I envision is essentially a “document” being instead a set of documents stacked together

Is using a snowblower, as in the photo, technically “digging”?

IDEA: “Tabs” in a Word document, like the different sheets in a spreadsheet, so that you can have multiple “chapters” or related docs all in one document to flip back and forth easily.

The Moral Economy of the Shire Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord o…

An interesting look at it here, linked under the comments to the original post but I’m sure I’ve seen it previously: nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Those look great! I’m inspired!

"Measles erases your save file"

Infuriates me that we have infrastructure like streetlights designed to break away and minimize damage to vehicle rather than protect people on sidewalks. Just completely mismatched priorities.

Thank goodness there were bollards protecting the Canadian Tire 🙄

How many people who "hate winter" actually just hate how snow retains and reveals the unbelievable filth smeared all over by cars

Jeremy Vine loves him, motorists hate him. Is this man London’s most controversial cyclist? How Cycling Mikey's quest for road safety divided London

I wish you could submit video footage to the police and be assured of prosecution here - it’s shocking how many drivers I see on their phones.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/jeremy-vine-...

Several places where this is critically needed in my hometown

Bring back vaccine passports

I second these motions 🙋‍♂️

A big part of the reason we need to massively expand transit systems (in terms of geography, capacity, and frequency) is that there are just a ton of people who should not be allowed to drive

This is freaking insane and one main reason why I keep on in this space - absolutely absurd what we’ve normalized on our streets.

Not exactly that… But maybe something weird is going on: my feed is now flooded with posts from the “grounding community” touting the benefits of sleeping on the floor or otherwise “grounded” to the earth.

Credit where credit is due, Brandon does pretty good at clearing the multi-use paths and along some bus routes. But that’s hardly a usable network. Most sidewalks are largely left to the property owner, which means 🤷‍♂️

It’s the slop on the streets that’s really bad right now, though.

I don’t need to see regular people compete in the Olympics but I do think it would be neat to see athletes randomly reassigned to different sports.

Yes! I missed doing that last melt on my own sidewalk and have been paying for it ever since :(

Sure, even if you kind of have to drive partly because we’ve built so much exurban development and not any regional transit.

But I’m talking about moving through an urban core and yet still being pushed away from walking because all the streetscaping favours cars and trucks.

“So you think we should stop plowing and sanding our streets?”

I think we should be smarter about designing our cities so we can mitigate this problem.

Just another way we make life easier for drivers at the expense of literally everyone else.

It’s lovely outside and it should have been a pleasant day for walking to work but we’ve spent ungodly amounts of money dumping sand and salt on our streets so I have to gingerly pick my way across thick mucky slop at every disgusting pigsty of an intersection.

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A cover page for the "Toolkit for Gender Inclusive Mobility Planning: Best Practices and Case Studies for Urban Planners and Designers".

How can we ensure every person moves freely and safely through their entire journey—from first mile to last?

This introductory toolkit is a resource for designers, planners and policymakers seeking to integrate gender-inclusive mobility into their processes.

www.genderinclusivemobility.com/toolkit