It’s been a successful night of bowling.

I couldn’t have put it better myself

Everyone on this DLR has the “why isn’t it Christmas yet” thousand yard stare. Adults, kids, dogs - they all look absolutely done with 2025.

Happy to see another of the new generation world champion at last! Turns out Piastri did pick up the Webber curse after all. Has Alan Jones done dark magic or something?!

RIP Frank Gehry - what a mind, what an architect.

"Designed in-house at the DfT" yeah... you can tell. Still think there needs to be some variation by speed and regionally - bring back the INTERCITY word mark, and make local people proud of their local/regional trains !

How the hell do you fuck up Day 1 on a new transit line so badly. It’s in a dedicated right of way! Turns out limiting transit signal priority is a terrible idea, who knew

News just in… thanks for the heads up, CoL… not!

What a horrible, horrible journey to work. Not something I want to see ever again. RIP to the poor individual. www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2566900...

Tomorrow is the first day of Newham's Local Plan examination (www.newham.gov.uk/planning-dev...). My manager described it as "the most challenging and most rewarding thing you will do in your professional career". Wish me luck... in a weird way, I'm looking forward to it!

The student has been arrested, according to the SCMP

And yet, even suggesting we could rejoin the EU is a political non starter.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... this is great news for Oxford Street and London!

Great news!

This feels too on the nose.

There’s something particularly sleazy about having a pub quiz sponsored by [app based trading platform for stocks and crypto], especially when 2 questions in the quiz have been “provided” by the sponsor. No discounted entry fee either!

Can’t wait to ride this the next time I’m in Montreal - $124m a kilometre is incredibly impressive build costs, shows IBX in NYC what can be done when you reuse existing rights of way…

What an excellent day, and an excellent Roast.

Oh wow! A London Underground station being officially Listed is always great news - this one especially so. Southwark station, 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, has just been Listed at Grade 2. Now for the other JLE stations. @c20society.bsky.social historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

“Kent residents Hannah and Paul George designed the system after estimating they spent hundreds of hours attempting to navigate the planning process when they opposed plans to convert a building near their home into a mosque.” 💀

The faster that the left learns the lessons from Zohran's very successful campaign - the better. You can win from the left while aiming at the centre ground...

London would be a much uglier, noisier, car centric place if the Ringways had all been built… We dodged a bullet … thanks to @roads.org.uk for this impressive resource!

TIL that the City of London *technically* doesn’t use Albertus on its street signs - used since 1988 and updated in 2025

Victor Le Masne - the composer who did the music for the opening ceremony of Paris 2024 - is working on a new project to recompose Ravel pieces and I’m really enjoying it spotify.link/9DkPoZaEMXb

An un-fun discovery on a Friday afternoon - Newham Cabinet papers that include the option of cutting the team I work in by 50%. mgov.newham.gov.uk/documents/s1...

glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto... Love this from Glasgow City Council, pushing back against the crazies who think that saying "I am a Sovereign Citizen" or "this person doesn't exist" etc means that they don't have to pay Council Tax...

Good, but many of the solutions to this are at the national level - cheaper childcare, cheaper housing, more secure and better paid employment, more/better support structures… uh, improved optimism for the future given climate change, war and populism…

Agreed - the irony of out-of-town retail parks in Newham being replaced by big box industrial distribution warehouses for Amazon etc…

After 6 years, finished this deliciousness. Any recommendations for something new?

Oh shit, Imgur no longer works in the UK. That might break a lot of things across the internet for UK users

If we're doing pie in the sky New Town ideas... how about North Weald? Could cheaply extend the Central line for 10,000+ new homes on this site. There's enough land to keep the air ambulance and industrial uses on site, while buffering the existing village. Bet the NIMBY pushback would be intense...

1) we need proper bus rapid transit in London rather than just skipping a few bus stops and branding it "Superloop" 2) Bakerloop is a silly name 3) Wow, brown buses are *ugly*

Digital ID is gonna be another embarrassing U-turn for Starmer, I can see it from here.

What is this, the fascism cheering section of NYT? Abusing government power to silence critics shouldn’t be headlined with “success”

Eurovision rumours are that some broadcasters (including Germany) will withdraw if Israel isn’t permitted to take part, and on the other side RTE, RTVE & others publicly saying they’ll withdraw if Israel takes part… Tim Davie at the Beeb saying “Eurovision isn’t political” is a laughable statement.

At last, the UN says we can call a spade a spade. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks like it needs one more lane, eh?

Really good to see the number of people cycling in London because of the strike!

Big brain thought - maybe the RMT also want to disrupt the nasty Arms Fair happening at ExCeL this week www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Obviously there needed to be a reshuffle… but won’t this amount of moving around just delay action on nearly every policy portfolio? Ministers need to learn their briefs, discuss them to civil servants, decisions delayed, stagnation continues

Hello new DLR train!

A brief thread from a long weekend on the Continent - a brief stroll around the Paris Olympic/Paralympic Village. About to open, very dense - a perfect use of the river and the mature trees to soften the site.

I love coincidences 🤣

Sure, TfL fares are too expensive... but if there's £5.24 billion a year of spare money (spoiler alert - there's not) - why not cut fares AND have substantial investment in public transport, walking + cycling? Free public transport in London is a pipe dream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating… Paris is more and more what we should be aiming for!

Delighted by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot's win at the Tour de France Femmes - hopefully great news for French cycling going forward! (Also I'm 4/4 on wikipedia front page news for the TDFF) www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/tour-...

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing news from Toronto! "Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes - Judge ruled that the removal of the 3 bike lanes will put 'people at increased risk of harm and death'" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hard to see how the Tour can go back to a processional race on the Champs-Élysées when there's crowds like this on Montmartre...

Me "I'm not paying for TNT Sports to watch the Tour de France Femmes" Alys (jokingly) "And you call yourself a feminist! [scoffs]"