How to design safer intersections: ​1. Near-sided signals. Placed before the bike/ped crossing, they prevent drivers from creeping into the path. ​2. Pavement differentiation. High-contrast, colored crossings (like this red asphalt) clearly establish priority and command driver attention.

Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1983 and today

Blue building South Range, MI

'Man & Industry' Charcoal Preparations for a new exhibition start tomorrow .. www.ianrpearsall.co.uk Opening 22nd Oct

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

'Blood-Red Fire-Sky over Redcar' Paint : Oil Pastel Northern Art at Wilson55 Viewing Days Tomorrow & Wednesday www.wilson55.com/auction/deta...

Meeting two potential American refugees from Denver…

SundayYellow with a dose of Pareidolia, Kunst Haus

ICYMI: 'Big Trouble in Little Cheshire' A few words on the proposed Adlington New Town in #Cheshire open.substack.com/pub/thefootb...

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

If Michelle Mone gets to keep the superyacht, the private jet and the seat in the House of Lords, at least give the 'benefit scroungers' narrative a break for a couple of weeks

City of Fire and Beautiful Bricks’ Exhibition at The Glosthouse, Longton. Stoke-On-Trent. www.theglosthouse.co.uk An ongoing exhibition of Works both new, and never before exhibited. Painting : Drawing : Collage. Poetry : @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social #Stoke100 #SoT100

@stockportcouncil.bsky.social #edgeleycommunityassociation Nah.

Still the best ever photo of what is now the area around U Bahn Eberswalder Strasse (taken in the 80s).

Cavendish Court, Cardigan Road, Richmond upon Thames 1952 Eric Lyons www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/eric-lyons.h...

The head of Great Langdale and over to Harrison, from Side Pike on Lingmoor, Lake District. Sketched on site with fountain pen #lamy

Dusk at Mow Cop #MowCop #NorthStaffordshire #Cheshire

Hey #bbc #kirkstonepass Perhaps instead of "cyclist collided with..." you mean "cyclist killed by driver of..." ?

#stairsonsunday A good landing, Tolentini Building, University of Venice

#ceilingsonSunday Biennales in Venice are opportunities to visit buildings which are normally not accessible. The Palazzo Zorzi takes up an acute angle between Rio San Severo and Salizada Zorzi - its piano nobile corner room ceiling appears to start off orthogonal but ends up as parallelograms.

#lightshaftsaturday A tight courtyard in Venice bringing light and air. Big enough to hang the sheets out #federicagalli

And half the country won’t understand a thing Hedges said.

Horrific moment of russian strike on an apartment building in Dnipro this morning.

#fontsonfriday S Giovanni in Bragora, Venice, in its much altered medieval church. Supposedly the font that baptised Vivaldi.

Sunset and sunrise on the Viel Dal Pan ridge. #dolomites

View from Canazei to the Sella Group, drawn with bits of firewood charcoal and coffee. #dolomites

Dolomites pencil sketching came to an end with the wrong thickness of spare propelling lead. Found remains of a fire in a cave, and the charcoal came in useful, though in a couple of days it'll be a smudge of grey. Tinted with coffee.

Somewhere near the top of Cave Dale, Derbyshire. Sketched on site with fountain pen #Lamy.

Tilburg population 230,000, bike garage for 7500. Stockport UK population 297,000, bike garage for 18 (key on application at the ticket office). #cardependency

The Cage, Lyme Park (current restoration scaffolding removed - I can do that). Manchester hinterland. Sketched on site with fountain pen #Lamy.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

My first thought was not in the word list #NYT

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.

The Old Town Hall #Burslem #ThePotteries #StokeonTrent

Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course

String puppet X-rays are best X-rays. Pre-WW2 marionettes by Stasis Ušinskas, a Lithuanian artist who worked with animation, string puppets, stained glass, theatre productions, paintings, and other forms of art.

Peak Forest Canal, Marple, at the canal aqueduct and railway viaduct. Sketched on site with fountain pen #Lamy.

The Hague’s Prins Hendrikstraat is a typical Dutch shopping street, where bicycles outnumber cars by a factor of ten. But five decades ago, it was the site of one of the country’s first and worst instances of ‘bikelash’; culminating in shop owners digging up a cycle path in the middle of the night.🧵

Birmingham #planningbyaccident

Birmingham New Street signal box 1966 by Bicknell and Hamilton. #aggregatesinaugust

Removal of one of these objects from the pavement has a clear procedure by Directorate Enforcement Policy. The other appears to fall into a grey area between neither council nor police enforcement and is thereby permissable by default. @therealyplac.bsky.social (blinds!)

August has been a getting-to-know-Derbyshire-better month - and there's 3 more days of it left... 180-degree view North from Win Hill, #Derbyshire Sketched on site with fountain pen #Lamy

An hourly reminder to www.think.gov.uk Highway Code changes Rules 163+170 appear to have zero effect on driver behaviour. A failure of communication? People will only read the HC when they have to, so make re-testing every 5 years compulsory.

#fingerprintrecognition 11 ways my phone says no.

Along Baslow Edge, #Derbyshire Sketched on site with fountain pen #Lamy

Peak District full of cars again today.