France announces ban on gas boilers in new buildings starting in 2027 French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also announced on Friday a doubling of support for electrification by 2030, from €5.5 billion to €10 billion annually.

VERY BIG NEWS out of France a week ago:
"French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday, April 10, a ban on installing gas heating systems "by year's end" in new buildings, including multi-unit housing, to curb France's dependence on fossil fuels."
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Strait of Hormuz isn't Hormuzing.

#InducedDemand #JevonsParadox #OneMoreLaneWillFixIt

‘It’s a powder keg’: Romania leads EU measles cases as vaccination rates collapse Bottlenecks in the system and parent’s suspicions mean doctors expect another serious outbreak soon By 10am on a spring day, the corridor of the clinic in the Transylvanian town of Săcele was already crowded with parents and children. They were all waiting to see Dr Mirela Csabai, one of just seven general practitioners serving a population of more than 30,000. Most of the cases that morning were routine: colds, checkups, chronic conditions. The calm, however, is recent. In 2024, a measles epidemic tore through this community and left one unvaccinated toddler dead. Continue reading...

‘It’s a powder keg’: Romania leads EU measles cases as vaccination rates collapse

Includes #NZ data -

4 bikes locked to bike stands next to a building

4 bikes parked at the #doctors ' surgery this morning #Exeter

Nearly 160,000 uninsured cars seized on UK roads Seizure numbers hit a 17-year high as an estimated 300,000 uninsured vehicles are driven each day.

The stats here are horrific.
300,000 uninsured drivers on roads every day.
1 person affected every 20 minutes by an uninsured driver.
1 person a day left with life changing injuries every day by an uninsured driver.
Yet successive govts have failed to tackle this
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A white quadricycle which looks like a tiny van which has a side door opened to take refuse bags. On the back, a little rack holding hand tools and a large shovel. There are people walking around the street.

A human scale and human powered (with a little e-assist) street cleansing vehicle in action on the pedestrianised part of Camden High Street in London.

#CargoBikesForTheWin

#FridayFun

Up to 78% now! :)

Two Years on a Cargo Bike Why cargo bikes are the best

A friend who just bought a cargo bike said this post helped her family make their decision. Sharing again for all you cargo bike curious folks. gooutside.substack.com/p/two-years-...

After this many #drivingbans you have to say should this person ever be allowed to #drive again. Surely 3 bans and then a lifetime ban?

New bridge for walking and cycling under construction.

Acces to a new bridge for walking and cycling under construction.

New bridge for walking and cycling under construction. Unfinished access on the other side of the bridge.

New bridge for walking and cycling under construction. A man is levelling the sand bed that forms the basis of the bridge’s access.

This new bridge for cycling and walking looks like it could open in a couple of days.
’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

A hanging bike path bolted onto a railway bridge above the River IJssel.

The Hattem–Zwolle route runs 5.5km with no traffic lights, barely any crossings, and priority all the way.

This is what it looks like when cycling is built to rival the car - not as an afterthought, but by design.

A purolator cargo bike

We can do do things differently, we just have to want to.

Why we say that only solid infrastructure design holds motorists accountable for their actions in a way that paint and signs never could.

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.

48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

If this were done by an ebike, the city would hold an emergency meeting to combat the threat.

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash.

Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do?

Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

If only there was some where else to park where I wouldn’t get a ticket.🤔

Happy Monday.

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I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward.

I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me.

I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these.

Since 2023, I’ve …

Gosh could you put any more caveats in that.

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets Under outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo, the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Bike lanes are healthcare.

I've always said this.

Supporters of the exceptional hardship driving ban loophole should spend time hearing from bereaved families or seriously injured survivors of crashes caused by exceeding speed limits by a “few miles an hour”,

I strongly suspect they would change their minds. Breaking speed limits can be lethal.

I've read every single #TerryPratchett book, they're a joy to read

Mark Lamarr gets driving ban despite hardship plea The comedian, 57, is banned from driving after being caught speeding in Twickenham.

The ban is right. I question where else repeated offending attracts mitigation like this. “Exceptional hardship” is lived daily by crash victims and bereaved families. My sympathy will always be with them—not the habitual road offender. Should we remove this provision?

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UK government commits over £100m to boost active travel initiatives in England
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To put this in perspective, this is less than the cost of building one roundabout on a road scheme...

No #simnelcake to be found in #Exeter #Tesco #Waitrose or #Morrisons! But 4 different types of #hotcrossbuns . Is it changing #food tastes, cost of ingredients or something else?

Retail parks are more profitable for retailers because they are cheap sites which externalise the costs. We all pay for the huge road infrastructure serving them and the harms that arise from car-dependent society.