Ahh I see we have reached the stage of fuel suppliers being accused of profiteering. Cos businesses making a profit is only bad when it comes to selling petrol for cars. Funny how so many unwittingly become communists when it comes down to filling the suv.

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time." British Rail, 1979.

It's amazing how car blind uk society is. Replace e- bike and e-scooter with car in this article and you won't even get close to the scale of that problem. Parked cars clutter every road snd footway, and destroy every verge they come across. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk today said "There has been no delay to the Belfast Rapid Transport 2 (BRT2) project". But the referenced press release from February 2025 says "Work will begin on this phase later this year [2025]." That looks like a delay to me. 🤔

there's currently a debate in nuclear circles on the relative merits of large reactors (~1500MWe) and small reactors (<400MWe). the answer is, as ever, we can and should do both. being able to spec either one or multiple small units or one large one makes it more flexible as a tech class anyway.

What we need, desperately, is reconstruction, and that means massive investment. One of the few upsides of Brexit is we are no longer bound by EU rules on state aid - which means we could pump enormous resources into our own economy without (further) penalty. And we're not.

It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse. Pay farmers to rewild NOW.

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

Well there is no chance of me visiting Ireland again. This is a victim blaming policy that will do nothing to reduce road danger (probably increase it actually) or KSIs. All it'll do is reduce the numbers cycling even further. Ireland is not serious about road safety.

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City campaigned on a promise of “fast and free buses.” One influential planning group is trying to change his mind with an even bigger moonshot plan: to expand the city’s century-old subway system.

I’m a lot more open to discussions of building aesthetics when they’re not about reducing density and housing supply.

Considering recent events, we're incredulous as to why the only place you can access real time updates on delays/issues/cancellations for Irish Rail is on X. We'll be writing to them next week calling for them to move this service off X & on to their website where it's more accessible for all users.

Privatisation has failed since 1989 People have no water because South East Water spent more on dividends that on infrastructure Fines = irrelevant Only way to get through to shareholders in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 is to take them out of the picture PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ed Miliband continues to preside over the only bit of the govt doing good stuff, today with the excellent announcement that the latest CfD auction has secured *8.4GW* of new offshore wind! Ed: “This is the largest amount of offshore wind procured in any auction ever in Britain or indeed Europe” 🥳🏆

Why rail fares are so high and why nationalising the loss making operators will not solve the real problem bit.ly/4jugYE9 the massive profits (£380m in 2 years for just one) of the rolling stock leasing companies on the £4.1bn annual cost of leasing and maintaining trains

What transportation bike company wants to gift the NYC mayor's office a nice utilitarian bicycle? Seems like a prime opportunity.

Absolutely. People blame online retail (which I think I read somewhere was only 20-odd% of retail sales) or parking, but the inflection point in my home town of Bolton was definitely the “out of town” retail parks just on the periphery of the core town centre streets.

People wonder why town and city centres are struggling, then crap like this is approved. M&S opening in a tin shed, less than 2 years after closing it's city centre store. Cheap tin sheds. Low rates and rent. No thought given to anyone not in a car. Progress? www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is. It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

The Finch LRT will hopefully force Toronto to reckon with two things: that street based transit will *almost* never compete with driving (especially in the burbs) and that people really care about speed. My new piece in the Toronto Star highlights that and makes the case for subways and railways.

I haven't made a video in a year, but Oh The Urbanity has, and today they released an amazing piece on trams as a little Christmas Gift to the world! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzk...

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Yes. In addition to long-term street redesigns, we need to enforce traffic laws. We currently have a culture that doesn’t consider road rules (like speed limits) to be legitimate or real. Some jurisdictions — Ontario, Alberta — have banned/restricted automated speed enforcement. That’s bonkers.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/light-r... A depressing read in so many ways Belfast would be much different today if we had heavy rail or trams running along the old County Down railway We’re now 23 years on and we still require a mass transit solution for east Belfast,Newtownards and beyond

Don't hold your breath. Labour absolutely stinks when it comes to walking and cycling. The only transport mode they seem to care about is driving.

If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.

Cause they know over the next generations there will be a true "mass migration" of humans trying to escape the effects of climate collapse and capitalist resource wars and want to normalise dishing out utter brutality against those people now instead of actually fixing anything.

Beautiful, wild old oaks. But as usual in Ireland, unless something changes they're destined to die off. Just look at the ground layer: nothing but molinia grass. Instead of paying farmers to look after these precious habitats, the state pays them to graze sheep, ensuring nothing else survives.

Leave the C2W limit-free (although a lot of schemes have limits anyway. Mine is £3k). Insist that cycles bought under C2W have to have mudguards and lights so are practical for year round use. that stops the leisure arguments straightaway.

“Cycle to Work should be about helping ordinary commuters switch to greener travel, not giving tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills”. To the contrary, £4k can get a young family out of a car and onto a cargo bike in a cycle lane.

Make cycles applicable for C2W be fitted with cargo carrying ability (racks or an actual cargo bike), mudguards and lights. that makes them ideal for commuting/utility cycling. Decathlon do a bike that meets those criteria for £329. www.decathlon.co.uk/p/low-frame-...

Remember how the so-called gender critical/TERF extremists were claiming they cared about cis [non-trans] women & girls? To absolutely no one’s surprise these same ‘human rights advocates’ are anti-refugee & anti-Muslim extremists. When the LGBTQ community warns you they are far right, listen!

The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.

Tories scrapped half of HS2, which without the other half would actually make many train times worse. People said “why don’t you focus on electrification of existing lines then” so now Labour, eager to proven they’re different from Tories, have scrapped all of that too.

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

I agree with a pay per mile driving charge for EVs. But a key fact that many are missing is that fuel duty has been frozen since 2010 and petrol is cheaper now than 2 decades ago. It's about time conventional car drivers actually started paying a fair share too. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services. Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0. But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?" Make it make sense!

Anyone calling for it cannot possibly rely on trains for their mobility.

Sir John Curtice - Indepedent pollster - confirms what we all already know. The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do. The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Used to be a fan of Róisín Murphy’s music, but then again her audience was mainly gay men my age; we made her. So you can imagine how horrible it is to see her turn on us. As she is Irish I want to apologise to British LGBTQ ppl & say that her views are extremely isolated in Ireland. Keep strong.

That phrase just sums up everything I feel - folks haven't abandoned Labour. Labour walked out on the country, the electorate - those who needed them so much after the relentless Tory destruction of the last 14 years. #JoinTheGreenParty

I'm heart broken Ireland's national broadcaster stuck to same old 7 questions tonight on #áras25 presidential debate & avoided the climate question several of us begged them to ask. We learned nothing new of candidates' positions on major global/national challenges. RTE has failed the public.

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"Trees will only grow in fertile soil, not up in mountains." This self-seeded pine, lodged in a crevice high up in a sheer rock escarpment in the Caha Mountains, begs to differ. It says that trees will grow just about *anywhere* sheep can't get at them.

So if you're opposed to lower, safer speed limits, then who out of your family would you be happy to sacrifice so you can drive to work 30 seconds sooner?