@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Andrew if there’s anything I can take from these files, it’s that a lot of people got stuck on the truly gargantuan email threads they probably lost interest in weeks before. Look at the state of this!

AMAZING. Westminster's pedestrianization plan for Regent Street St. James's, Waterloo Place, and the surrounding area is massive.

The week ahead in UK economic policy:

. @acarpen.bsky.social just noticed that the election results line up remarkably well with the BRMA map you shared in your local government reform post. I’m guessing Newmarket would be yellow as well if it were included! @philrodgers.co.uk

This is awful - #NHS England is trying to gut #RightToChoose which could make waiting times for #ADHD diagnoses take 10+ years. This is being snuck through an internal consultation which the public can’t respond to, so email your MP to tell them to make noise about this! adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...

NHS Right to Choose Changes

NHS England is looking to make a change that will fundamentally alter your right to Right to Choose. They're consulting now and we need you to protest to try to stop it. If they're allowed to make the...

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The initial idea of “let’s do for tunnelling what SpaceX did for rocketry” honestly sounded great when it was proposed for mid-occupancy rapid transit. But the speed with which it became “let’s build smaller tunnels, slowly, for teslas” rather destroyed any initial credibility.

Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 2y ago

On the other hand, I wish people had listened to the transit nerds when we were telling everyone who would listen that Elon was extremely unintelligent.

So just to confirm, DEI stands for Dumb Entitled Incels? Because yeah I can see how that could cause a lot of problems.

People around the UK need and want greener, cheaper energy - but god forbid anyone tries to build the infrastructure to actually enable that. Miliband is absolutely right in forcing through these projects.

East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2y ago

Beau Brummel declared that “Fashions come and go, but bad taste is timeless.” One wag pointed out the chosen style of dress suggested a cosplay of Paddington Bear. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

WATCH: The BEST public art is MORE than just art — it’s functional too. This really smart integrated art in a recent project in central OSLO draws you in, supports both place-making and way-finding, and reveals all the mid-block nooks & crannies that you might NEVER know about without that art!

“Compared to self-driving cars, and just about any other mobility mode, e-bikes have flourished…If 2023’s trendline continues, the humble e-bike, not the flashy self-driving car, will be poised to reconfigure American transportation.” — @davidzipper.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/90994141/why...

Why 2023 was the year of the e-bike and not the self-driving car

E-bikes and self-driving cars both entered the year with momentum. Only one maintained it.

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Tory ministers refused to resign after far more serious stories emerged - Haigh seems to have been doing a genuinely good job and it shows weakness that Starmer didn’t back her to stay on.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary

People criticise British cooking, but I guarantee we’d have less meltdowns cooking Thanksgiving dinner because it’s basically a roast dinner with some weird sides and we are pretty much pros at that.