Aspire winning Tower Hamlets and the Newham Indys winning Newham would be *very depressing*

great thread!

It was more of a parking and car ownership point.
Generally, the Greens in both TH and Newham have significantly more progressive transport and street polices than Labour unfortunately

Map of census data of car ownership - Tower Hamlets, 66% of households have no cars or vans

Yep - over 65%

LBTH Labour manifesto

Sigh - the majority of residents in Tower Hamlets don’t drive, but Labour feel the need to follow Aspire and pander to a minority.

Now send JD Vance to run the publicity team for the new Harry Potter series.

Nigel Farage wearing a blue blazer, Alys also wearing a blue blazer and looking unhappy about it

Unfortunate outfit matching by Alys :(

How French Cities Develop New Neighborhoods, and Why it is Different from the Northern-American Way In our latest piece on medium, we explained how our French perspective would determine our approach of the Northern-American planning. In…

Their ZAC tool is very powerful and good IMO medium.com/sustainable-...

Ahhh Vos misses out on Paris-Roubaix Femmes *again*
It's amazing how competitive she still is .... 20 years after her first road world championships win. #ParisRoubaixFemmes

Will have to see what the TV numbers say tomorrow - but surely it’s a step backwards for the women if there’s less than 90 minutes of Paris-Roubaix Femmes coverage…

Pogačar misses out at Paris-Roubaix in the sprint!! What a race #ParisRoubaix

Hook turn diagram

Melbourne tram tracks

Hook turns, widespread “light segregation”, good signal priority… youtu.be/POzqFlAzJGc?...

Lidl evading super strict alcoholic licensing rules in Northern Ireland by building a pub next door that allows takeaway alcohol sales 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alys dabbing in the midst of the fountains

Alys heartily recommends a frolic in the fountains on a day like this - 25° in London! @alys-creative.bsky.social

Destroyer Of Worlds

Listening to Oppenheimer, for no reason at all. Incredibly depressing.
open.spotify.com/track/3NQtYT...

This section between Chatelet-Les Halles and Gare du Nord on RER B and D currently shares two tracks, for example

National Grid: Live Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

grid.iamkate.com super cool - 50% of the UK electricity RN from wind… and the price is -£40/kWh 😂

Really looking forward to our week in Italy - train through the Alps, high speed between cities. It’s such a pleasant way to travel - shout out to the Interrail 25% sale at the start of the year…

Plans to transform Kingston Ancient Market submitted One of London's oldest street markets could be revived with new stalls and a roof terrace.

So... the new stalls built in the 2010s were no good?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With all the misery in the world right now - we can be so proud of humanity's achievements, we're going to the moon!!

All the school kids are off for two weeks for Easter, but no public holiday until Good Friday (3 April) and Easter Monday (6 April)

How is wedding planning going?
Well, @alys-creative.bsky.social just cried over choosing pizza options 😂

I do like an exceptionally polite letter that says "sincerely, please fuck off"

Google photo of a street full of cars.

photo by me of the same street. much calmer now.

Anne Hidalgo is the Before v. After Mayor.

Whereas London (with similarly challenging constraints in central London on the deep Tube lines) decided it was a priority in the 2000s and 2010s.
Recent additions of step free (outside of Crossrail) have mostly the low hanging fruit at surface stations in outer London...

Let me grab some deets for you - a big thanks to Greenwich and Lewisham Councils - £50m went a very long way back then

And Cutty Sark very nearly didn’t happen!
The whole saga about a cross river toll too… thankfully sane heads prevailed

path with metal fence on one side and reed beds on the other

Then the long walk back to civilisation. About 10km all in all, a bleak but interesting walk! 6/6

Alys photographing Platinum graffiti

AORTA graffiti

SUPER graffiti

PIES graffiti (with a star as the dot for the i in pies)

Someone down here likes to graffiti random words ... they're very good at it! 5/6

Alys looking out onto the Thames

Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

bench overlooking the river, Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

River Thames, Beckton Sewage Treatment Works outflow, Barking Creek

At last, the Thames! An incredibly bleak bench to have lunch - at the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works!

We considered that it was very unlikely that anyone else was within 250 metres of us ... rare for London! 4/6