It's wild isn't it

Do you think there's an issue with the road looking like somewhere people should be driving rather than being designed to say "don't go there"?

The absolutely wild thing about this is that the fines go to the government which means issuing them actually costs the city 🤯

This elegant cable-stayed bike bridge in Zwolle separates bikes from fast traffic and connects neighbourhoods. Wide, well-lit and smoothly graded, it provides safe, continuous travel with no signals or waiting

Sarah Olney MP is quite wrong that Hammersmith fire station serves Barnes by the way. Barnes is now served by Richmond fire station, I was told this directly by the Hammersmith fire chief himself. Meanwhile LFB data shows that there have been zero delays to 999 fire response times to Barnes 🤷‍♂️

Even the basic quality of surfaces. I have used cycle tracks in NL which have been as smooth as glass and then I use the uneven mess here, even flagship projects.

Putney’s traffic woes are not caused by Hammersmith Bridge closing to cars, and cannot be solved by reopening it to cars. But it does make a very convenient get-out-of-jail-free-card to use on constituents living with 24-7 traffic blight, without having to expend any political capital on honesty

It should be the norm!

Nobody is disputing that Putney has a horrible traffic problem. The issue here is that actually doing something about this chronic congestion requires *measures to curb car use*, which demands much more political bravery than blaming someone else, somewhere else, for not spending £100s of millions

I have cycled 100s of kms in NL and while I have found a few crappy surfaces here and there, the overall quality of the Dutch public realm and it's condition is light years ahead of ours.

It's quite rare I have issues on the rails, but I can't vouch for DB

Fleur Anderson MP is still pretending that traffic is up on Putney Bridge because the Hammersmith Bridge closed to motor traffic in 2019. She’s just said “traffic on Putney Bridge increased by 16% between 2020 and 2023”.

Hmm, what was happening in 2020, I forget 🧐

Isn't DB actually getting worse though?

I had the same when I lived in Hatfield. Very handy and secure - lots of this on the Debden estate with shared alleys

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Chuckling at LinkedIn where someone is trying to convince me that Dutch highway maintenance is worse than UK highway maintenance.

Post from ANSR + Portuguese government: A distraction can cost you your life When you walk on FOOT: 👉 Avoid mobile phones and headphones ─ reduce the perception of the environment; 👉Don't change direction unexpectedly; 👉Before crossing the treadmill, stop and always look both ways — even on one-way streets or with a green light.

INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION Users of bicycles and personal mobility devices Driving against the flow of traffic or breaking traffic rules. Disregarding signs, traffic lights, and right-of-way. Riding on sidewalks improperly Lack of maneuver signaling Absence of lighting, reflectors, or other visibility elements. Failure to use protective equipment (e.g., helmet, recommended)

Portugal has one of the worst road safety records in Western Europe. You're 1.7x-2x more likely to die in a road crash in Portugal than in neighbouring Spain.

Faced with rising deaths and growing anger, the Government is now victim-blaming vulnerable road users instead of tackling the danger.

*You're* the one posting links to knob-gobbling Symbol guy.

‘It’s a big loss’: what happens when a beautiful village loses its bus route? Mousehole in Cornwall once had a butcher, post office and general store. Now it doesn’t even have an ATM – and one of its crucial bus services has been cut. Can residents save this vital resource?

This illustrates two things . First, that the ‘85 Transport Act remains one of Thatcher’s most pernicious legacies, particularly when combined with austerity. The ‘85 Act allowed LAs to fund socially necessary services but they can’t do that without money www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Thank god for the Internet Archive (though many are still lost)

Tech peeps. I've been trying to use our council's online reporting site. My difficulty is that no matter what browser I use, or what device (laptop, phone, tablet) I cannot put a location pin on the map, so can't submit a report. Two of those browsers have no add-ons, and no cache. Ideas?

Police officers ticketing illegal parking in #RegentsPark today.

Ah, finally. After a year of no enforcement they have finally seen illegal parking is endangering children cycling to school.

Whoops, no. It turns out Princess Anne is opening the new Elizabeth II garden today. It was optics.

As ever @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social is spot on.

Can you imagine expecting a defect preventing people in cars from using a road having a standard 28 day wait to fix it?

If we are serious about inclusion, then our streets must work for children, older and disabled people all the time.

Although it turns out V1 is still 300 years from the inner edge 🤯

Why don't these people just admit they want to drive everywhere. It would be honest at least.

Yells at *oort* cloud, surely?

Ah yes, nowt like supporting the town centre by… undercutting the council car parks and therefore damaging public finances?

The police could sit at the corner for an hour and haul people in, but in my experience, there is no interest in proactive enforcement!

Very good article here.

This, from the head of the Association of School and College Leaders, seems to be key, and the ban proposed just an excuse to not do the regulation.

Banning phones in schools is a blunt instrument to deal with unregulated social media companies who feed all of us dangerous crap.

I knew *of* her, I didn't know her.