Kai K

See the Durham police youtube account for some content that works really well at getting the message across. Especially their stuff on roads policing.

Make anyone with the ability to control a vehicle have to have a licence from the area they are controlling the vehicle.

A taxi licence would be appropriate as well.

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Cities will micromanage an e-bike, but are fine with multi-ton cars being beta tested on our streets by remote workers overseas.

Make it make sense.

Newcastle council are taking out some of the short stretches of protected cycle lanes we have in Gosforth in the name of decreasing bus delays.

Meanwhile in London.

At the same that we're barely able to access treatment, the Government are trying to demonise people with ADHD. With claims that people are being "over-diagnosed" despicable.

This is something I'm not looking forward to.

So many stories of people losing access to medication from moving to a different ICB or different country such as Scotland. As well as titration and prescription issues.

Let alone GPs just going rogue and denying medication.

True, I just found it interesting they roped it into the announcement.

I feel like all the maps have ignored it despite being a potentially significant bit of investment with around 5 new stations.

Haven't they also said they might include the bottom section of the Leamside line in this now?
Bit of a gap for the map though.

I don't know when bins is, because my street has shared bins.
How futuristic!

Part of the funding is supposed to have a delivery deadline for next year if I remember.

The beyond councils control thing is still weird to me. Isn't it an issue with the hospital not paying its share of s106 funding for their new car park. ~£700k in total not sure how much has been paid so far.

I'm sure they could. I suspect the ongoing maintenance costs where what stopped them being put in.
Might be worth an FOI to find out though.

The towers were surveyed to see of they could be put in. But they aren't going to be.

Missed opportunity with so much funding going into the bridge and central motorway.

Would be a great active travel connection when they eventually remove a lane and build a cycle path over the bridge.

Trains and battery trucks, maybe limited gantries on motorways.

Putting the emoji for rolling your eyes at the thought of people being killed by drivers is pretty abhorrent.

Because we are talking about vehicles being used as weapons to murder people. But you seem to be downplaying that for some reason.

Just as someone that uses a vehicle as a weapon shouldn't be employed in a job that requires them to use a vehicle, even if they aren't the offenders first choice.

No target shooting is a sport and nothing ends up dead.

If anything the fact the licence effectively can't be permanently revoked shows the weakness of the system.

As soon as someone gets a licence it's seen as a right not a privilege.

Guns are used for sports. Although you may call it killing, deer stalking and vermin control with guns can be jobs.

And although it's not as bad as the Gateshead flyover, you can see where the concrete of the central motorway is crumbling.

They had to sneak that funding in with the Tyne Bridge repairs package.

This is questionable considering the state of the Tyne Bridge before renovations and the long battle to get funding from the government for the maintenance.

And are increasing speed limits for vans and HGVs so drivers don't get angry. I don't get how that's inline with their goals.

Also shouldn't the BBC have something in there about how speed limit reductions reduce road deaths and collisions. Or is that not relevant?

Yeah they were removed and replaced by a new wind farm. Now it's 5 turbines producing 41.5 MW so a pretty big step up from the original.

There's a top-class trolling opportunity here: "In the absence of people driving over Hammersmith Bridge it's not clear there's any demand for a car route"

Even crossing some of the side roads. I'm pretty confident trying to take priority where I feel it's safe. But down that road all the way to to the sea front there are way too many wide junctions and it's just not safe.

Good reminder on the need to keep reporting drivers on their phones though.

I used to cross this road on my way to school, even then I knew it didn't feel particularly safe.

With my campaigner hat on it's clear that the speed limits should be reduced and a cycle lane put in.

Why don't the council want to protect those in a busy school zone from road violence?

Yeah, that the local NHS trust didn't even put in a bid to run the service they were currently running was a huge red flag. I wonder how much this "saved" the council.

Painted bike lane

Trains really are the highpoint of human development. There is no more elegant, relaxing way to cross large distances than in a train. The ability to look out the big windows, read a book, have meal or a drink, walk around and converse with fellow passengers is something magical.

Should ask to see the claims the council have made against the drivers insurance if they keep hitting all these bike racks. Surely there must be at least one right?

Honestly not too sure on that one.

They are pretty week at the feel. The pole broke away from the base on one side about a month before the other.

Tthere was a bike on it that didn't seem damaged when the whole thing went.