Older drivers aren't involved in as many collisions as younger drivers, but that doesn't mean they're not a danger. They don't drive many miles but the RATE of collisions per mile goes up drastically. Over 80's are the most dangerous on the road. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Visited Margate at the weekend and the streets were so pedestrian hostile. 20mph makes such a difference to the whole feel of a place-walking around nearly every UK town outside London is more stressful due to speeding traffic Look at the crossings on this junction right in the middle of the beach!

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads

Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution

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Also see The Royal Parks. From Richmond Park Cyclists. Forest is now the sole bike share in Richmond. But while you can ride a forest bike through the park you cannot park anywhere inside the park. There’s no published figure for the number of *free* car parking spaces across the 7 car parks..

It's Simon, yeah?@coldwarcliff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Westminster West End councillor Tim Barnes bemoaning how difficult and expensive it would be to provide Lime Bike parking. Westminster has >40k motor parking bays >5k motorbike parking bays. It has 200 bays for bikeshare. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Let's talk about mayors - a 🧵 Burnham wants to give mayors across the country substantially more powers, money and responsibility. He's looking to roll out "Greater Manchester Plus" (my phrase) across England within three years. That's very fast, and very good. It needs to be done. 1/X

Obsessed with the Alastair Heath headline generator stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Alan Rusbridger@arusbridger.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ever wondered if Allister Heath is a crazed ideologue or a brilliant satirist? HIs latest column - learn to love climate change and build more swimming pools - settles the question. The man’s a comic genius - and with perfect timing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74279/...

Every single person who rides an ostentatiously noisy motorbike can just fuck off. Those who do so in London or any town or city, and especially those who use chainsaw-volume engine revving as a “warning” can then fuck off all over again.

Every day the BBC news updates on the number of people who’ve crossed the channel in small boats. But somehow this isn’t newsworthy. Just the collateral damage of a motorcentric society

20's Plenty for Us@20splenty.bsky.social · 6d ago

For the 5th consecutive year child casualties have flat-lined at around 13,000 road casualties of age 16 and under. In what other area of life would the death or injury of 13,000 children be "acceptable"? The government has a Road Safety Strategy that aims to reduce child KSIs by 70%.

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

I can’t believe these arrests are still happening - the new PM could end this utterly absurd proscription if he chose. As Jonathon Porritt says - trying to save lives is not terrorism. Exposing this government’s complicity in genocide is not terrorism

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org

Still waiting to hear from Lime after querying why they gave me a 'Warning for not parking correctly' after they turned off my bike when I paused at side of road to look at my map (in Netherlands). The app said "because my ride had been unusually long". Is there a time limit. Has anyone had this?

Social media is so ripe for witch hunts. I've seen a suggestion that Zack didn't even 'repost' this - that the original poster had tagged him into it, and that's why it appears on his feed. Maybe. I've never been completely clear on how Insta displays stuff

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d ago

Interesting statement from Avon & Somerset police about how not only did Zack Polanski not commit an offence in posting a pic of a man in a T-shirt showing a guillotine and a reference to Nigel Farage, but that the "satirical" T-shirt was itself also not an offence.

So it *is* possible to stop Apple Music on my phone bugging me to subscribe and to just show and search in my mp3 collection that I've synced to it.

Just a Church off Fleet Street campaigning against Sunday parking charges. "there are often issues with public transport on Sundays, a problem compounded by the fact roads are regularly shut to allow activities such as fun runs, driving is often the only option" www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Good thread this. Social care is hugely unfair right now - even more so when you get to the point about those paying subsidising the costs of those the state does pay for.

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

Nowhere else like it.

Last night when I slipped off the narrow pavement on Poland Street nearly falling in front of a speeding taxi I reminded myself how important it is high net worth families or movie stars aren't in any way inconvenienced by having to walk anywhere and have parking.

It's Simon, yeah?@coldwarcliff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Westminster West End councillor Tim Barnes bemoaning how difficult and expensive it would be to provide Lime Bike parking. Westminster has >40k motor parking bays >5k motorbike parking bays. It has 200 bays for bikeshare. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"Sunny Jim" in Private Eye nails the Tories' new approach to climate change...

This is a new one on me - Ashford town centre. An A road becomes a big open space with no road markings but vague zebra like stripes in the paving (but no zebra crossing markings or beacons) with very long crossing distances. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

Once again, I regret not responding to the Charter Review consultation with ‘give the BBC lots of money in return for banning vox pops, voodoo polls, and quotes from think tanks who are actually lobby groups’

It’s that great new British class system again, where ‘working class’ means ‘manual tradesman with van’, not distribution centre workers filling up buses in Northampton at shift change time, the London night buses full of cleaners, or the retail worker who relies on Islay’s carefully-timed buses.

Didn't realise there as a UK startup testing self-driving cars in London as well as Waymo. I've seen loads of Waymo's on the road but pretty sure I've never seen one of these (yet the guy I talked to claimed they'd got ore on the road) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayve

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett, Jingo

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

As a local resident yes, It has changed a lot about 15 years back, for the better. (www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...). The point is it’s still nothing like Camden or Spitalfields.

Restaurant review: Brixton Village

Brixton Village is home to the most vibrant restaurant scene in London – and best of all, it's on Jay's doorstep

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Dave Hill@davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 3w ago

As so often, this "save our cultural heritage from gentrification" narrative barely acknowledges how *utterly* different and how *very* gentrified Brixton market already is compared with just a few decades ago. Which heritage is being "saved" here? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #london

I’m there for this. It was an incredible year for music - I still listen to these 4 albums today - and they were all on the same small indie. Screamadelica Bandwagonesque Loveless Foxbase Alpha.

Tim Worthington@outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3w ago

Higher Than The Sun. The story of four albums released late in 1991, and how - long before Britpop - Creation Records took on the world and almost won. Paperback (15% off code BOOKPITCH15) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/higher...

Sorry, doesn’t require intervention at this time!

Westminster West End councillor Tim Barnes bemoaning how difficult and expensive it would be to provide Lime Bike parking. Westminster has >40k motor parking bays >5k motorbike parking bays. It has 200 bays for bikeshare. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Competition Commission has a lot to answer for in blocking a single uk free-to-air streaming service back in 2008. The UK had a chance to compete globally but they short sighted looked at the uk as an isolated market. Iplayer was ahead of the curve then… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaro...

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3w ago

iPlayer is in a funny place... trying to get people to come to a BBC only app when their default homescreen option is Netflix, with a big Netflix button on their remote. Do you just give up and go all in on YouTube?