Squier is really knocking out some top notch guitars these days

Not quite this, but

This, but also for far too many suburban rail stations <15mins by train from the city centre.

Glasgow has 15 subway stations. Just look at the land use around these two! It's shocking. Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.

Worth 5 minutes of anyone's time to read about Ronnie. Consider having a tissue handy in case something should happen to get in your eye 🥹

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.

Today Montpellier inaugurated its 5th tram line, bringing the network to 83 km. The first line was opened in 2000. The network has grown highly interlined, with multiple trunks crossing the central area.

NEW from Hansen et al "At least a moderate El Nino beginning in 2026 leads us to the projection in Fig. 5, with global temperature reaching a minimum at or above +1.4°C within several months and then rising to a record global temperature of about +1.7°C in 2027." Source: www.columbia.edu/~je...

It’s time we stopped viewing driving bans like this. Cars are a dangerous weapon when used incorrectly. Upon release, he needs to travel to access work he can use other modes. If this case doesn’t warrant a lifetime driving bans, what would?

Very disappointing. Leeds is the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

32 years ago today, Robert Goulet’s wife and manager Vera Novak said for him to shut up. The Simpsons episode “$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)” premiered on December 16, 1993.

November 1961, and the decorations are up on Buchanan St, long before its pedestrianisation. The dapper gent about town might fancy popping into Moss Bros on the left hand side of the street for a bit of fine tailoring 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow

Absolutely fascinating new video from CityEd on YouTube. Growth of UK cities charted over two millennia, with brilliant narration. Looking through a Glasgow lens, I feel like this is the first time I've truly got a sense of the sheer *scale* of growth spurts in the 1730s & then 1870s-1910s.

An interesting set of hand drawn 1950s traffic engineering drawings, showing what could have been in Edinburgh's West End, and the rationale behind it.

Another quality update from Glasgow Cyclist on YouTube. So many active travel & public realm improvements happening it's hard to keep up. In a year's time we'll likely have: - Cowcaddens Rd 🚲 - Byres Rd 🚲 - Duke Street 🚲 - Argyle St (pt 1) 🚲 - George Sq renovation 🌳 & surrounding streets 🚲

I once saw somebody who queued for 45 minutes every day to drive 1/2 mile. Motonormativity is such a powerful force, I suspect for a lot of people driving and movement are seen as the same thing. Add in the influence of habits and automatic behaviour and non-car alternatives don't even register

There seems to be a very clear trend in anglophone countries of yes, occasionally getting round to building tram infrastructure in our cities, but forgetting the most crucial part: giving it priority over cars. That's how you get stuff like this.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Sad to hear that the Pollokshaws Parish Church on Shawbridge St has suffered a major fire overnight. One of the last remaining fragments of old Pollokshaws, it was built in 1843 as Pollokshaws Original Secession Church. #Glasgow

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Gazing in awe at the area around "Boston Stadium", where Scotland's first two group games are.

This is so disgusting.

In memory of Pete Shelley April 17, 1955 – December 6, 2018 Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? (Official Video) #punk #punks #punkrock #peteshelley #buzzcocks #punklegend #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance

"If I'd known I'd have to sit through an hour of Gianni Infantino I'd have just played a square ball" - Kieran Tierney

"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure" New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚲 London, Paris, Warsaw, Copenhagen... Wherever you look, new safe cycling infrastructure is helping everyday cycling levels go through the roof. Including here in Glasgow, which saw 43% year-on-year growth in cycling (3.2m ➡️ 4.7m trips) from 2024 to 2025. www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1388...

Babybel has rebranded from “upbeat bouncy red plastic cheese you buy to shut up children for five minutes” to “serious protein source for bro deadlift power up”. In this essay on what this says about our changing culture, I will…

Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84

Sounds about right

If city-building games are your thing, give this a read. 👇 A really thoughtful summary on the limits of the two competing game models ("agent based", eg Cities Skylines vs "macro based", eg Sim City 4), with ideas for how games can be made better. I hope it's picked up by people in the industry.

the coop this evening with possibly the most baffling musical choice i have ever experienced in a supermarket

Daydreaming of how this gem could be something like a Glasgow Ostbahnhof (with the Clyde Line running underneath and a reactivated City Union Line behind it).

Cameron Toll would be the ideal transport interchange - a covered, cross platform interchange with high capacity, rapid trams. Would reduce the number of buses using the key Bridges corridor allowing more space for pedestrians along the line Good for business too - if integrated with the centre?

Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

@jonnelledge.bsky.social Really pleased to hear you make the point on OGWN about the number of car trips that could be walked. It's great to have that out there somewhere people might hear it

I'm almost exclusively resharing @hackneycyclist.bsky.social posts this week, because frankly, they're just too good.

I spent most of Tuesday following the "Singing Street" around to take photos of the filming locations. It was very hard not to be struck by streets that were once playgrounds now being car parks. In other places there is still a bustle of life, but it is now tourists playing, not skipping girls

Hopefully Scotland next!

Holy moly - Welsh Government have approved side-road zebras! www.gov.wales/written-stat...

#BudgetUK 👍 Two significant structural changes 1. Road-user charging principle accepted, #PerMile for EVs (FVs pay #FuelDuty) 2. Fuel duty inflation-link to restart after previous govt's freeze [EV charge also inflation-linked] 🤔 We'd have also liked.. 1. #SUV charging 2. Tax/vat on #AviationFuel

This is a massive problem with Labour’s immigration proposals. All migrant families affected will be made considerably poorer (because of extra immigration fees over several years plus dampened job prospects) and many (most?) of those families have children.

Gladiator 2, with Nick Cave's script

Interesting article on the ever changing historiography of The Beatles. From @stuartmaconie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

When cities build protected cycle tracks, families don’t have to choose between safety and freedom. Kids can ride on their own, dads can hang back, and everyone gets where they’re going safely and comfortably. Safe infrastructure turns everyday trips into independence, not stress, yo!

Here's my favourite way of visualising this 👇 (🔴L) The 15 min catchment of your station by foot. (🔵R) The 15 min catchment of your station by bike. Hundreds, thousands more potential passengers to sustain the railway. All within grasp, by providing bike parking and the routes to get there. 🚲🚆

"I'm really glad we had this chance. I used to be the only one of my friends who couldn’t ride a bike, but now I can." Dumfries and Galloway celebrates #BikeabilityScotland success, as one of latest Scottish local authorities to deliver on-road cycle training at all primary schools: buff.ly/8TiUBFo

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.