Tessera

This is obviously just a bit of engineering fun for a viral video, but can you believe there is someone who genuinely believes low occupancy vehicles in tunnels can “solve traffic”? His name is Elon Musk.

The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · last mo.

Very reassuring to learn that a blind man who drunk drove 150 miles to Scotland, without a licence or insurance, has been banned from driving for 12 months. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Blind Huddersfield man sentenced for 150-mile drive while drunk

Anthony Hall, 50, took his partner's car and drove at night from Huddersfield to near Carlisle.

bbc.co.uk

NEW! "Fine, We're Doing a Helmet Episode." After Mayor Mamdani posted a video showing him wearing a bike helmet, social media exploded. But what are helmets designed to do? Who sets the standards? And what is it about the mere mention of them that causes people to lose their minds? bit.ly/4gFMJub

The American mind cannot comprehend a McDonald’s Drive Thru that explicitly welcomes bicycles and e-scooters. Meanwhile, in Spain: 🍔🚲🛴

A sign reads: Pick up your order at McAuto®, now also by bike or scooter.

The McAuto Lane

If the ~100 people in the Uber x Wayve launch photo wanted to take a robotaxi, based on average occupancy, there would be 179 vehicles. At their usual braking distance at 20mph, the line would be around 4.2km long. Cities are about to get more congested for the benefit of tech companies.

People at Uber and Wayve London launch event

Cars are, regrettably, the enemy of efficient public transport.

Private cars and Ubers crowd the tram network, reducing efficiency in Lisbon.

I really don’t understand why the Government is so eager to let private companies bring these to UK pavements.

Day 1 and already blocking bike lanes.

Britain has a remarkable habit of preventing the very things that make communities sociable, just in case they attract anti-social behaviour. “I’ve made my street beautiful for years. Now the council says I must stop.” www.thetimes.com/article/3cc1...

I’ve made my street beautiful for years. Now council says I must stop

Katharine Hoskyns has tended plants and installed a bench outside her home in London, but she’s been told it’s ‘unsafe’ and is attracting antisocial behaviour

thetimes.com

There's a long-held assumption that celebrities only travel by private chauffeur. David Byrne's ride to Met Gala, Timothée Chalamet's Lime biking and now Cate Blanchett's Brompton getaway show this to be increasingly untrue. We shouldn't be so surprised when people use the best tool for the job.

Three different uses of kerbside space shown in one street: 10 bike share spaces, 6 private cycle parking spaces or parking for just one private car. Transport is about moving as many people as efficiently and sustainably as possible; parking should be prioritised accordingly.

E-Bike Share, Cycle Hangar and a private car

Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 2mo ago

“New attempts to undermine this ancient institution in order to facilitate the mechanised distribution of junk food should therefore concern any intelligent pedestrian.” Excellent piece by on the hideousness of pavement delivery robots. unherd.com/2026/08/the-...

The invasion of the delivery robots

unherd.com

Since @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social was elected in 2016, we've delivered a fivefold expansion of London's network of Cycleways to over 450km - enabling millions & millions of greener, cleaner, safer & healthier journeys 🚲🚲🚲 And we're not sitting back in our saddles, there's much more to come...

Cities are going to need many more trees to help people cope with extreme heat. Parked cars reflect heat and also increase street temperatures. So the obvious thing to do is to plant trees in the place of street parking, avoiding pavements (which will cause issues for pedestrians in the future).

Mature tree causing obstructions for pedestrians in Lisbon

The planning application and marketing photographs (left): “The site will be a low car development with controlled parking provision. The internal road layout has been designed such that informal on-street parking will not be available.” Versus the reality (right):

Marketing photograph of Perry Barr Village

Illegal car parking at Perry Barr Village

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Illegal parking or pocket park? Which would you prefer? 📸 Largo das Palmeiras, Lisbon.

Pocket park in place of the parked cars.

This police officer understands that a bike modified to reach high speeds via a throttle is a motorcycle, not an e-bike. E-bikes or electrically assisted pedal cycles (EAPCs in law) provide assistance while pedalling to 15.5mph before cutting out. A throttle can support walking mode up to 3.7mph.