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YouTube video by ChronicleLive Residents against Byker Asda store

A great video from Shields Road I think about when aomeone mentions Retail Parks youtu.be/w7d_NwO-7js?...

Let the boat sink while they wait on a multi-year study to address how to repair the leak.

In other news Newcastle is almost about to put its Movement Strategy to Cabinet. A transport plan for the next 20 years.

A bunch of the kids on our street were all biking together, and the girl in front goes, "We're the bike gang!"

I was really tempted to tell her she just did the @tomflood.bsky.social meme.

What would it take to get fixed? Loads of people complaining? Or someone pulling them up on the contract?

🚉It's official! The last ever peak-time ScotRail services have departed the station.

Greens, trade unions and commuters worked together to force real change.

Now workers will save money every day.

Via SNP: "The SNP has hailed the benefits of public ownership of essential services...Earlier this year, Scotrail was ranked the best large rail network operator in the UK by passengers. A survey showed customer satisfaction levels have risen from 67% to 91% since coming into public ownership" (1/2)

Quantifying carbon emissions for local transport planning Describes methods of carbon analysis and how these can inform local transport strategies and schemes.

Long promised technical guidance on quantifying carbon emissions from local transport has quietly been released today by DfT. It is designed to provide ‘local authorities with an evidence-based approach to transport planning and the pursuit of local decarbonisation goals’.

Motornormativity harms disabled people. People who screech "but disabled people!" when you propose reallocation of road space are bad faith actors.

Wow at 1pm today on this sunny Sunday, solar is providing 41% of electricity. Let's get sharing the good news. #NetZero #LoveNetZero via grid.iamkate.com

To celebrate the completion of the Whitley Bay to Tynemouth seafront cycle route, there's going to be a couple of days of events on the 10th and 11th of August. Supported by @sustrans.bsky.social , @northtyneside.bsky.social and Active Travel England.
Get yourselves along.
Free ice cream*

*Limited

These have come loose a couple of times now. They are fast to repair but would be nice to see the underlying issue fixed.

Meanwhile the UK government is starting to selling off lands that are currently safeguarded for rail infrastructure.

The future of a once in a generation rail project, HS2 phase 2b, in the bin.

Picture of a temporary trafficlight on red with lights for cyclists blacked out

Picture of cycling traffic lights complete out.

Disappointed to see that someone forgot cyclists exist again. No lights provided for cyclists at the bottom of Newcastles main cycling street.

I wonder why people don't cycle in the city centre.

Screenshot of google earth with the date 2009. A British street with a two lane road on the right. A traffic island for a bus stop in the centre, then another lane for vehicles and a row of parked cars on the left of the island. Either side of the street are two storey houses with shopfronts on the lower floors.

Screenshot from Google maps with the date 2008 a bus stop with a lane sign painted on the ground infront of it next to a two lane road.

How about this floating bus stop on a road in Monkseaton that goes as far back as 2009 (although probably much further) or does it not count because its floating between two roads? Also this one in Whitley Bay double floating between roads and with a bike lane.

A picture of a rainy street with a building in the top right of the image trees in the centre top and fancing and porta cabins from a construction site in the top left. A asphalt path leads down to a wet section of road with another small black asphalt ramp from the kerb to the road in the foreground.

Thanks to @mikecookson.bsky.social for the work getting the path next to the Lidl development paved and ramps added. Immediately useful with the rain today. Now just for the rest of the path up to the park.

Have you seen that there's a potential Urban Heat Island might save more lives by reducing extreme cold in high latitude countries. More shade in summer less in winter

They seem to be switching more to the European styles though. Isn't the party policy now to support High speed rail to the North and Midlands. More people there saying it the more the party will shift.

Opening it when it's hotter than in your home brings in more heat. Today the temperature in my flat peaked at 23°c when outside it was 30°c.

All because I opened the windows at night and closed them when I woke up.

Getting this wrong can be more than just uncomfortable it can be deadly.

There needs to be a gov advertising campaign about how to manage heat in the home especially during hot periods.

I was out in the peak of the heat today and saw so many windows wide open.

They should be closed during the day and open when it's cool at night! Let your home insulation work for you.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...

Help shape Newcastle Cycling Campaign!

As a small volunteer team, we need to focus on doing a few things well.

Let us know what you think we should focus on by completing this short survey.

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Bring back Dual door buses

Map of Newcastle centred on Sandyford with a pink line running from Haymarket towards Heaton, up to the coast road, then through to Jesmond.

Join us this Friday for a social cycle ride in Newcastle. Start 6.30pm outside Newcastle Civic Centre for a shortish ride

We will be heading along the cycle route to Heaton. Then back through Jesmond towards the city centre for some beverages and a chat.

Does this mean theres a chance of getting a nicer path from the park to the shop?

Speaking of it being 50mph. I saw a reddit thread yesterday of numerous people thinking they had been caught out speeding there. Someone pointed out it was likely a broken lamp post flickering.

Interesting how many people will admit doing something so dangerous once they think they've been caught.

Whats the chance that the black fencing just up ahead was also destroyed by a driver. Seems to be loads of spots headding up the coast road now.

They said they didn't get enough use in certain stations and it was hard to deal with the admin as you had to get your pop card authorised in person.
And would cost £150,000 to repair them so instead scrap it and do it again. Cause we all know that will be cheaper🫠

For at least 15 years Newcastle council was maintaining a stop line with no signals.

I would like to see it put back but with the correct traffic signals up. Although it's part of a junction, there are lots of interactions between buses and pedestrians. Currently it just doesn't seem safe.

Picture from 2023 of a pedestrian crossing with a white stop line on the road on the side closest to the camera. The traffic signals are facing away in the picture.

Picture from 2008 of a pedestrian crossing with a white stop line on the road on the side closest to the camera. The traffic signals are facing away in the picture.

Looking on google maps after the fact it turns out there used to be a stop line here in 2023 and it was there as far back as 2008.

The confusing part is that there has never been traffic lights facing in the direction of that stop line. So the drivers never really knew when to stop.

Picture of a city centre pedestrian crossing. in the foreground of the picture is a traffic light pole with the signals facing away.

So almost got hit by a Stagecoach Bus yesterday at Haymarket and it's led me down a traffic signals rabbit hole.
As there is no south facing stop line at the bus driver started trying to edge their way through despite me being halfway across with the green man showing.