That's 6% for all households of course, so to give a few people free parking the 30% of households in the city without a car would have to pay an additional 6% council tax.
Vote for a sensible party, not one that wants to put your bills up while telling you something will be free.
In Newcastle on street parking costs the council £9,260,871.63 per year.
If on street parking is 'free' that would still be a cost that needs to be covered. It's roughly the same as a 6% rise in council tax, on top of existing rises.
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
I'm incredibly impatient, and enforcement relies on Officers having to walk the streets and issue tickets.
Just elect people who recognise the benefits of @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Always on duty, silently guarding our pavements 24/7/365, no matter the weather.
Regent Centre is unusually busy today. There's not usually anything in there on a Saturday.
The image is an Isocrone showing 15 minutes and 30 minutes cycling time from the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne. the 30 minute area covers the whole city.
Large parts of Newcastle are reachable from the city centre by cycle – but only where a safe, connected and convenient cycle network exists.
When you speak to candidates standing in the forthcoming elections ask them if they will be working towards a safe travel network for everybody.
• Every 20 minutes, someone is the victim of an uninsured or hit-and-run driver. That's three an hour, 72 a day, more than 26,000 a year. • Every day, at least one person is so seriously injured by an uninsured or hit-and-run driver that they need lifelong care. That's more than 360 people a year whose lives are forever changed for the worse. • Every week, at least one person is killed by a driver who is not insured. That's more than 50 people a year whose lives are cut short, more than 50 families a year who lose a loved one. • Every day, there is an average of 300,000 uninsured vehicles on UK roads. The total number across the year is over 1 million. • Every year, using government figures, we estimate that uninsured and hit-and-run drivers cost the economy almost £2.4 billion.
Not so fun facts about uninsured drivers: they kill and maim a lot of people.
With elections happening soon it's a good time to ask any candidates you speak to what their plans for tackling air pollution in the city are.
A still day yesterday shows the levels that persist.
We can't rely on windy days to blow pollution away from roads and into your house to fix the problem.
A clip from an article that reads "If I am right, and the political chaos of this era owes something to leisure, then it follows that we should fear the future. "
Oddly, he doesn't go on to explore the alternative view where he's wrong.
Apparently all the people painting roundabout and having unhealthy relationships with flags just have too much time on their hands 🤔
Why cut fuel duty? I still walk past idling vehicles. This would suggest fuel is still very very cheap.
I don't leave my taps running.
They are! It'll mostly be a cross wind at the highest section which will be interesting.
Mostly tailwind down Allendale and dropping off the moors into Hexham should be fun! Not sure I have to courage to make the most of it anymore though 😂
A clip of the Met Office forecast showing 35-30mph wind
30mph wind at the high point. Should be fine 😬
It'll be a fast ride home but 70km in to the wind earlier on might be less fun.
Good news if you're on Agile tomorrow - you get paid for using electricity for 16 hours.
It's not so great if you have a bike ride around the highest points of the Pennines.
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A bar chart with three columns. Road: 1051.8km Footway: 1416.8km Cycleway: 36km
📊 Newcastle has 1051.8km of roads, 1416.8km of footway, but only 36km of cycleway.
🚲 The city's safe cycling infrastructure is 3.42% the length of the road network.
🗣️ When you speak to candidates standing in next month's elections ask them if they support safe cycling for the whole city.
Good job he left the bins out.
Proposals have been put forward for safer walking and cycling facilities on Matthew Bank and Jesmond Dene Road.
Respond by Sunday 12 April and let the council know you support safer cycling in the city.
Details below 👇🏻
newcycling.org/2026/04/safe...
📅Earlier this year the Government announced local councils would receive new powers to prohibit pavement parking.
🔎We took a look at the damage pavement parking causes in Heaton
🔗 www.spaceforheaton.com/a-year-in-th...
🗣️With elections next month, ask your candidates what they'll do about this.
Great thread 👇🏻
It's worth a walk or cycle out to see the viaduct and the views from it if you get the chance.
I very carefully avoided having to buy power tools to sort out my lawn by not having a garden. Saved a fortune!
Might start a podcast about it to share my journey so others can learn from my experience.
A good point.
The image shows three thumbnail maps, each with a route from Cumbria to Newcastle going west to east in a fairly direct path.
It's that point in a long weekend with poor weather when, sat in my warm dry house, I wondering how much of a bad idea one of my 'just ride east' routes might be tomorrow.
The first train isn't even early, but it might be a bit too breezy this time.
All down to what Dave's doing in the morning.
Free electricity tomorrow (if you're on the right tariff).
Not due to oil or gas.
Graph showing driving 100 miles is cheaper than any time since 1990
Anyone supporting the Lib Dem calls for fuel duty cuts seriously needs to stop and think
A screen capture of a map used in a planning application. The map shows a railway branch line in to the centre of Blyth in Northumberland. The line hasn't existed for many years.
A map used in one document still shows the railway line branching off into the centre of town, which raises a number of questions. Hopefully newer maps have been used elsewhere in the process.
Text on the image reads: Designer Rsponse The verge space to the north of the site contains significant existing bunding and Category B Trees. As part of the scheme’s commitment to environmental net gain, this space is being retained and enhanced with additional planting.
£10m per kilometre.
I love the fact that building a duel carriageway has such high commitment to the environment there isn't room to put in separate walking and cycling facilities.
✅ Space for 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗
❌ Space for 🚶♂️🧑🦽👩🏽🦯🛴🚲
🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨
The Hormuz crisis has a real chance of causing energy shortages in the UK. The government is insisting it's business as usual, and opposition parties are arguing for fiscal measures that will stoke shortages.
Neither is serious.
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I went out this morning and it was hard work when the wind was not being helpful, so that must have been quite an effort!
In space, no-one will share your screen.
UK politics now in a bidding war of universal fuel subsidies (sorry, "support") to, per ed davey "keep britain moving". The reality - that consumption must fall - is going to be a nasty surprise
NASA's Blue Marble picture of Earth, from 1972
It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.