The new cycle lane layout at the north end of Lambeth bridge is ok (and already at capacity), having a bus stop straight after rejoining the road less so.

Busy London morning on the Embankment cycle lane

Just remembered that these SH-3D helicopters were meant have been replaced over 10 years ago (until the US cancelled the VH-71) and even the replacement VH-92 doesn't seem to have fully taken over yet. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parliament square cycle lanes busy a week after the tube strikes

Parliament square was busy this warm London morning

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Whole new NIMBY level just dropped to save ‘checks notes’ old mining spoil heaps: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shrinkflation must be leading to a huge amount of fresh air being transported around between factories and shops (which is pretty wasteful).

The risks older drivers pose and lack of testing drivers competency are known but no government wants to risk upsetting pensioners. Change will only happen when a large number of crashes happen in a short period leading to a campaign to do something. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An unsurprising result. The more I read about these convictions the less safe they seemed. The problem being Libor didn’t have a right answer, it was just an average of estimates. www.bbc.com/news/article...

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Great piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on why Europe needs to get serious about air-con www.ft.com/content/50f6...

But what are the cycle lanes in central London like at 9pm on a Thursday?

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count was still down this morning on the very busy Embankment cycle lane.

Good morning London

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3 count was down this morning as I passed

It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it? Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Me in 2018: Buys a cold brew coffee pot convinced I’ll use it loads. Me in 2025: Finally digs it out of the cupboard and starts using it during a heatwave. Realised I should have done this years ago.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,631 cycle journeys for the day and 1,665,225 for the year at 08:13 this morning. Yesterday’s total was 15,590.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,396 cycle journeys for the day and 1,649,390 for the year at 08:16 this morning. Yesterday’s total was 18,867.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 12,680 cycle journeys for the day and 1,640,807 for the year at 17:44 today.

Good progress being made on the improvements to the north end of Lambeth bridge. Going to be carrying a lot of cyclists when it’s open.

The cycle crossing at the south end of Vauxhall bridge yesterday evening.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 3,369 cycle journeys for the day and 1,555,544 for the year at 08:33 this morning. Yesterday’s total was 15,514.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,880 cycle journeys for the day at 08:30 this morning. 1,539,541 for the year on a damp London morning.

Whenever I look into small consumer-facing businesses in London it’s often a shock when they’ve even filed a first year’s accounts on time, let alone actually paid any tax due. Honestly seems you’re a bit of a mug if you bother doing so.

Busy on the Parliament square cycle lanes this morning in Westminster

Just realised it’s now almost 8 years since a quarter of the Vauxhall bridge cycle lane was taken up by Hostile Vehicle Mitigation barriers to stop a similar attack to the Westminster bridge incident. Still no sign of a permanent solution.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 3,704 cycle journeys for the day and 1,460,585 for the year at 08:33 this morning. 18,321 for yesterday.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 3,966 cycle journeys for the day and 1,442,526 for the year at 08:33 this morning. I make that 15,010 for yesterday.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,583 cycle journeys for the day and 1,426,042 for the year at 08:15 this morning.

The mix of supermarkets doing loyalty card discount prices and not discounting items about to go out of date by much, now leads to some very strange pricing.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 3,434 cycle journeys for the day and 1,368,578 for the year at 08:32 this morning.

One slice of slimming drug pie please waiter observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Station announcer at Waterloo underground station feeling the long day “Sort it, see it, say it”

Good morning London

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 3,259 cycle journeys for the day and 1,284,849 for the year at 08:33 this morning.

Whenever I've been sent confidential information by mistake, it's always been in a hidden worksheet in excel. People never seem to check. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just for context, London, a city over three times larger than Chicago, had 95 car crash deaths last year

Had to go check this was real and yes, this is the conservative response to the news the government is building two new reservoirs

Embankment cycle lane looking good this morning

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane at 2,950 cycle journeys for the day and 1,230,372 for the year at 08:31 this morning. 9,826 total yesterday on a wet and windy day.

Good initiative on show this morning on the Embankment cycle lane. I think he may have been getting his bike to work after a puncture.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,551 cycle journeys for the day this morning at 08:32. 1,220,147 for the year.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 2,985 cycle journeys for the day at 08:33 this morning and 1,181,366 for the year. Wednesdays total was 10,806 on a wet day.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 1,820 cycle journeys for the day at 08:31 this morning and 1,169,395 for the year. Yesterday’s total was 16,965.

@cs3cs6count.bsky.social CS3Count on the Embankment cycle lane in London at 10,579 cycle journeys for the day at 17:26 today and 1,161,189 for the year.

Good morning London

This is an extraordinary and horrifying story. The damage caused by the arrogance, incompetence and carelessness of Boris Johnson's government goes on and on. bsky.app/profile/lucy...