Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today
A huge betrayal.
Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks.
And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...
Two red bell peppers, one strapped to each footrest on a child seat on the back of my bike. They arrived intact at nursery, where I transferred them to my kid's bag.
Remember guys, every bike is a cargo bike
If you're not following Frans Saraste, it's time to take a hard look at your priorities and values. Or you could just follow him, I suppose.
It’s genuinely terrifying
Judging from the amount of idling I've witnessed today, petrol prices aren't high enough.
I feel your pain - this has become so normalised in Manchester to the point numbness
Just a normal day commuting in #Manchester. Five instances here of seriously dangerous driving, and that's fairly standard.
Special mention to the driver who was watching TikToks at the wheel, not included because she wasn't visible on my bike camera.
For the 2nd time this week Salford council have indefinitely postponed a scheme to make cycling safer at the expense of cutting a few seconds off motor journeys.
This time it’s the cyclops junction at Trinity Way / Chapel St, meaning the status quo of danger will continue
More than half our car's speedometer is dedicated to speeds that it is never legal to reach on UK roads
Fuel Duty has been frozen, and therefore cut, for 15 years in the U.K, turbocharging transport emissions and starving local councils of grant funding to repair our crumbling roads.
It’s been a disaster and it’s beyond embarrassing that any mainstream party would campaign to maintain the freeze.
sharks in water City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped.
"City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped."
Two options for voters in Gorton & Denton.
Greens or Reform?
it's Perks from the original Railway Children looking wistfully past camera in black and white
wanting the Greens to win in Gorton and Denton is up there with things I've wanted more than anything else in life, closely followed by how much I want Labour to lose
Here's me prompted by Matt Rendell to risk the opinion that perhaps the #winterolympics could be less #climatecrisis and ecosystem destructive:
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@ianwalker.bsky.social would be interesting to run this same question but replace the white car with a person riding a bicycle as well as a pedestrian wanting to cross the mouth of the junction. Has anything like this been done in UK? Does the Theory Test involve anything like this? (driving on RHS)
A lone figure walks underneath a long section of elevated roadway with graffiti-covered supports, along a sun-dappled path.
Under the road bridge #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved
"Councillors estimate the cost of providing free car parks to be around £10 - £15 [per household per year]: equivalent to a ten per cent increase in council tax."
- I find this story interesting mostly because it's rare that the true cost of free parking sees the light of day.
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I would be interested in seeing a decent engineering drawing, details of how the motoring network has been unravelled and a forecast of expected cycle and motor flows.
Based on the image? Not a cycle street with parking bays sticking out like that.
1/5
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And sorry to dunk on people trying stuff, we absolutely need all of the tools in the box, but we also need to be doing it *really* well for the approach to gain credibility.
Thanks for articulating exactly my initial concerns with this project. I know large scale projects need funding, but I also have suspicions about the commercial motivations of those involved/interested so far - which will undoubtedly shape the intervention.
GM's Velocity 2025 proposed map
Also, it looks very similar to GM's previous Velocity 2025 scheme, which largely focused on traffic-free routes, like the Bridgewater Canal path, because it meant not having difficult conversations about taking space away from cars.
Visualisation of the Irwell, with walking and cycle paths
So GM's latest initiative for walking, wheeling and cycling is #CyanLines, which is a series of routes to connect the city's blue/green spaces cyanlines.com
I'm a regular user of blue/green spaces, largely on bike, but also on foot. So I'm definitely supportive of the scheme. But... 🧵
#BikeSky
The #CyanLines initiative sounds really good, but there’s concern it’s going to be the usual conflation of #ActiveTravel with leisure cycling & that GM councils will use it as a substitute for a proper AT network, especially given the slow progress of the original #BeeNetwork vision.
Please please see @londoncycling.bsky.social ’s Women’s freedom after dark report. this looks and smells to me like a council that just doesn’t want to reallocate road space and thereby shows they actually don’t care about safety after all, ie fob off alert
Meanwhile, in Greater Manchester, we continue to do things differently.
Four lane road junction without pedestrian crossing signals
Needed to go to big Asda.
Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus.
Awful driver.
Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings.
No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.
Former Wigan Athletic youth player jailed for mowing down pensioner
Media coverage is fuelling a backlash against e-bikes. But often, the stories aren't even about e-bikes at all.
Last week, the BBC reported that an "e-bike" was involved in a serious incident. But it was actually a high-powered electric motorbike.
Here's how it got changed...🧵
