Cargo Bike Ben

Yup. Those people buying massive 4x4s and pick ups are about to have a very bad time. Especially when they find out they still need to pay their huge monthly payments even when they can't use it.

Cyclists are more aware of their surroundings.

Their mental map is more detailed and comprehensive.

This mental map also forms the basis of the selection process for the next need.

Thus, cycling increases local revenue, even if the second trip is made by car.

Did you draw these? If so, very impressive.

Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.

The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
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Every cloud has a silver lining. Let's hope the UK, and other European countries learn the lesson the Dutch took from the 1973 oil embargo – over reliance on cars is a terrible idea.

Next time someone tells me my rail trail is sufficient bike infrastructure I will suggest we build highways with no exits

I've brought this up many times during our city council meetings.

While talking about better bike infrastructure, an Alderperson said, "But we have a good trail system." A trail system is mostly for recreation. Our trail system takes you nowhere, with no exits to anything, really.

Rising gas prices hate this one weird urban trick.

NEWS Foreign-born voters stole by-election, Farage blasts, amid rising alarm over suspected poll fraud Nigel Farage has sensationally claimed that Reform UK was robbed of victory by foreign-born voters in last week's Manchester by-election.

Farage needs to fuck off with this.

The candidate that Reform stood had a long history of overtly racist views and comments, he’s a known misogynist and overall has the charisma of a soiled pair of knickers.

They are doing nothing more than causing further division.

Fuck off, the lot of them.

Judge Blocks City From Implementing 15 MPH Bike Speed Limit In Central Park - Streetsblog New York City It's an indication that opponents of this "illegal application" of the so-called "Sammy's Law" may prevail on the merits at an upcoming full hearing.

It's an indication that opponents of this "illegal application" of the so-called "Sammy's Law" may prevail on the merits at an upcoming full hearing.

Here are the latest death toll figures from the US and Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliatory strikes.

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Really?

Definitely sore loser vibes.

This post is for all of you in every time zone all around the world.

I keep hearing that Bluesky is still mostly North American. But I think there’s lots of you around the world that love cities, and want them to be better.

We want @urbantruth.bsky.social to be global.

I hope you’ll check us out.

Definitely a good chunk of people in the UK.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

If that happens, it’s a great example of how some people probably shouldn’t hold a driving licence.

This is precisely where bike parking should be at supermarkets.

A table showing what was eaten on each day of the week for breakfast, dinner, tea and supper

The average diet of a Rural Oxfordshire family, 1912 - mostly bread and butter

Grim

Nostalgia is a cruel deceiver

From, apparently, How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, 1917

Seconded.

Road traffic noise linked to immediate heart and blood vessel stress A new study published in the journal Cardiovascular Research shows that a single night of road traffic noise, at levels that are typical of those living in a city, causes stress to the heart and blood...

Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud (and stressful). - expanding on @thewaroncars.bsky.social

That said, it does hit at something more fundamental. Wirral is another council that is a bugger for running consultations for the appearance of doing something without actually having to do the hard part. That sort of behaviour undermines confidence in delivery; because none ever happens.

TROs are a great example of that. The TRO is happening. It's clearly needed. What they're asking is "are there any particular issues you can see from your local knowledge, like there being nowhere for services to park due to adjacent resident only parking schemes", not should we do this.

Absolutely. Our education system has failed a lot of people around civics education. Primarily that:

Consultation = we're doing this, it's happening. We're asking you for anything we may not have considered about its implementation.
Referendum = should we do this or not

Pavement blocked both sides of a road by 3 cars on each side.

In Watford our Beryl bikes scheme has bays on wide sections of footway as it is funded by Watford Council, not the highways authority Herts CC. 1st fine of £10 for parking outside a bay, 3rd time banned from the scheme so compliance is very high, meanwhile cars block pavements...

As a council candidate, you would hope they really would know the difference between consultations and referendums.

Skinner am I out of touch meme "Can it be true that I lost because I'm a fundamentally unlikeable weirdo parachuted in by fascists? No, it's the woke Muslims who are wrong"

There's a solution for e-bike parking chaos - but it's not problem-free Introducing dedicated parking bays has not completely solved the issue.

The solution is problem free. It's only problematic if you operate from the base assumption that the carriageway is only for private vehicles.

**THAT** is the real problem.

(And yes, bikes and scooters absolutely should be parked on the carriageway; not on footpaths and pavements).

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already.

It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win.

Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part.

Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.

Unfortunately, if anything it might swing it to Greens vs Reform, but it'll stay two party. The FPTP system demands it.

The best thing Labour could do is start implementing PR. They're unlikely to win again, but they could remain the largest in a left-leaning coalition.