The first tenant has been announced at Oxford North.

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...

Chiltern Railways has conceded that East West Rail services from Oxford to Milton Keynes are unlikely to start this year, after troubles were first reported by the Clarion. A statement that “we are confident that trains will be running this year” has been quietly removed from their website.

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

The man didn’t research so you don’t have to. 3kg of sweets in 3 days is likely bad for your health. Important pre-Halloween EBM.

I think it's telling that by far the most positive reaction I've had at inductions this year has been telling new students our chat widget is staffed by real librarians, not AI.

Not sure why that second X link has appeared - sorry about that! You can map pavement parking hotspots via this link act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

Rule 78: Put Street Trees Almost Everywhere Street trees do it all, they... Cut crashes by 45% Raise home values 9% Boost retail sales 12% Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

Haha! It worked! I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh? #Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children" Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

As Orwell's novel start to enter the public domain, I'm rewriting them to give them happy endings. The project is called Orwell That Ends Well.

Oxford residents get 100 free passes p.a. for the congestion charge. When will Oxford bus users get their 100 free bus passes?

"The Anxious Generation" is the new "Learning Styles". Discuss.

A previous line manager once complimented me on the clarity of my emails & I explained that what I do is make a list of all the things that have to go in the email and then don't put anything else in.

I'm beginning to think that LDR stories are a net detriment to the BBC News output.

If they do this, at the very least I am going to want to see signage for Rhydychen and Caergrawnt

So in the last month, Oxfordshire's Conservative Alliance has told @theoxfordmail.bsky.social that the £44k/year additional payment to THEM is a "drop in the ocean" but the £55k/year cost of the LTNs is the reason that there's "no money left" at the County. Which is it lads?

Interesting case study on resistance to cycling infrastructure. Considers range of issues inc. material concerns, governance (inc role of traffic models) & political will. “… institutional inertia, a legacy of motorised transport planning, and the uneven agency of stakeholders limit transformation”

I'm trying to understand the West Dulwich LTN decision. Why was there a statutory consultation period for 3 weeks prior to the experimental order being made? I thought experimental meant no (statutory) consultation beforehand. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I probably should have made this template before the count and filled it in on the day. Never mind, it's ready for the next time (assuming roughly similar boundaries, which may not be the case).

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

There's 5 of these "shops" on Cornmarket and I had assumed they were fronts for drugs or money-laundering. Turns out their shady "owner" lives in Botley!

If you enlarge this engraving of the plan of Oxford made by Ralph Agas in 1578, the details are very clear, but remember that you are looking *south* from north of St John’s College. There is no Broad Street yet, and the northern city wall shows up very clearly: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Not Dutch-enough style.

I do like this, but a bit of me also thinks The Drawers should be a serendipitous discovery. Perhaps you spot someone else looking, or you jokingly pull them only to find another treasure!

Cycle tracks are red, They should never be blue, You want them green, What's wrong with you?

It’s a little-known fact that Oxford colleges take their names from these streets in Bootle

It's a trap. #proofofcat

Even cooler! Near null island, there's a set of points shaped like the US (you can see Florida in the lower right.) But when you zoom out, they're off the coast of Liberia, exactly where they'd be if the latitude and longitude were both divided by 10 (eg so NYC is at 4.1, -7.4 instead of 40.7, -74).

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

TfL have apologised to me for the way they, and their outsourced “online brand protection agency”, handled this, and I’m happy to be able to reinstate the bus and tube maps (then I don’t have to reply to any more emails about it 🤣 )

Roughly €55 per head (c.£46) of active travel funding in RoI for 2025. Figure for England is roughly (and generously) £10 per head, with big differences between regions. The UK government's new Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3) is due this year. It should be aiming for c.£50 per head

Did you know: thanks to Eric Pickles it’s illegal to enforce parking fines using photographic evidence. One of those “one weird tricks” that Labour can do to just reverse a Tory law that makes the country worse, for free

What does it take to destroy a Bell Bollard like this? (corner of Speedwell Street and Old Greyfriars Street, Oxford, next to the loading bay entrance to Westgate Shopping centre: maps.app.goo.gl/kNzmo4ZVzQbz... )

Meatloaf.

First one lawyer will make their argument. Then a 2nd lawyer will lipsync to the first argument. Then a 3rd lawyer will respond with funny faces to the lipsync. Then a 4th, more attractive lawyer will make the first argument again, but in a slightly more polished way and get a lot more traction.

You can make your own from a ryobi seed spreader.

This is just to say I have eaten the child you put in the Omelas hole through which you were perversely saving Utopia Forgive me they were suffering so sad and cold

Squeak.

Meanwhile, Boost This Toot if you think the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the Ambassador from the Court of St James’s to the United States of America has been chosen on the basis of his resemblance to Lord John Marbury as much as for his political savvy

Because I can't bloody help myself, just LOOK at the prices of those things adjusted for inflation.

Is it cake?

This paving in Market Street got redone three years ago In three years pavement parking has wrecked it One of the many ways selfish parking degrades our public realm 🚮

Pudding. #StirUpSunday

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14