The Ranty Highwayman
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
The 1,700 capacity bike parking garage at Beursplein, Amsterdam, provides parking for the area's shops & other destinations. Open 24/7 and always staffed, it's free to park here for up to 24 hours. Bike parking isn't allowed on the surrounding streets or squares, creating more space for pedestrians.
Guys I can't post this on LinkedIn but I'm pretty sure jobs are a scam
Why do all these types of people look like a badly Sharpied egg taking an epic shit
My question is always how does an AV help my MiL with her wheelchair or carry her shopping to her front door. I have never had a sensible answer from an AV fan.
Still chuckling at the idea that the robo taxi tech bros will develop robots to help people with their shopping or to load their wheelchairs into the boot.
Robot Falls Off Vehicle During Test
Alt: A robot gets out of a large quad bike thing and promptly face-plants the floor.
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Self driving taxis cannot lift people's shopping, wheelchairs, buggies etc into and out of their boots, or assist you to and from your front door. The tech bros should be asked about this and so should the government at every opportunity.
Rescinding the climate emergency worked a treat. youtube.com/shorts/bxtH2...
Grass fires burn close to homes in Romford
YouTube video by BBC London
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Someone stole my toilet! I suspect this guy
“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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Pity #TheDoodle this afternoon as she had to go to the dentist to have 5 😬 stubborn milk teeth removed. All done and resting now, but she still managed to observe that it was done before her appointment ended at 2.30.
A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 9h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Because what London really needs is lots more cars and especially empty ones cruising the streets. I don't remember Londoners being consulted on being used as guinea pigs. #motonormitivity
Torsten Bell@torstenbell.bsky.social · 6h agoThis is a big moment for one of the UK’s most promising start-ups
Tbh if someone had really de-radicalised from being a Neonazi, they wouldn't be joining the current Conservative Party, which has been on a rapid trajectory of radicalisation to more and more extreme positions (remember Katie Lam talking about indefinite leave to remain last year?).
Another day, another plan originating from the UK that would involve the EU making wholesale changes to its own internal and external arrangements to suit the interests and political preferences of a neighbouring non-member state.
Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · 11h agoNick Boles on his plan for a European confederation. Paper with Demos coming later www.thetimes.com/article/8459...
I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵
Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing
A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.
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The continuous cycle route between Breda and Etten-Leur was ahead of its time when it opened in 2004. More than 20 years later, it has been improved again: a new cycle tunnel now replaces a busy level crossing. That story in this week’s post and video.
Cycle Tunnel Replaces a Level Crossing in Breda
People who visit the Netherlands for the first time to see and experience the cycling environment often describe being “blown away” by all that they see. But recurring visitors say something similar too. To their pleasant surprise, they often notice the continuous improvements to the cycling infrastructure. In today’s post, I have a fine example of just such an improvement.
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And still people come out in public to defend speeding, whining that "people get caught out".
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2643113... How is this "news"??? Are local reporters going to start reporting on all "traffic court" cases?
Man, 35, fined for speeding on A-road in 8mph offence
A man has been fined for speeding in an 8mph offence.
oxfordmail.co.uk
Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterdayThe campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 4 August 2026
We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...
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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
A new housing development under construction in the Netherlands The cycle infrastructure is already in place, complete with junctions ready to connect to future homes, along with dedicated bus lanes Active and sustainable travel is planned from the very beginning, not bolted on as an afterthought
Meanwhile over on LinkedIn (I know). A recently retired professor of user experience posts this in response to me singing the praises of 20mph speed limits and calling on fellow professionals to make the case for them. 1/2
Aug 4th 1997 - Skynet, the world's first Automated Defense Network, was activated. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
New episode up! We talk with transit planner Jarrett Walker, author of the recently reissued classic Human Transit, about why buses are so great, how we can make them better, & how advocates should fight for public transit in a hostile federal funding environment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
