Rachel Reeve's seat voted remain by a solid margin

Really pleased to see JP go for this. Behind the scenes he's got so much done to increase growth and accelerate devolution for North England. Consistently more right and more polite than me. A bit less gobby, but we can work on that.

Are we still debating LTNs? If so, this very thorough meta-study about LTNs in London by @centreforlondon.bsky.social says they are generally more popular than believed, and that there is strong evidence they work well. So there we are. www.centreforlondon.org/wp-content/u...

🛑 20mph speed limits? The research is in and … yep, they work #VisionZero #roadsafety #TransportøkonomiskInstitutt #AudTennøy #urbanmobility www.itsinternational.com/feature/its-...

Every city should be closing streets to cars. Cities are for people, not cars.

This is an extremely bad decision. The combination of e-bikes and public transport makes all of the capital accessible to many more people, reducing the need for car ownership. Banning them is the wrong reaction to a very small number of issues.

Work starts on Monday to make Downham Road a bit more dangerous and hostile road to cycle on, directly outside at primary school. This must be one of the worst road schemes implemented by any London council for many, many years. A horrific and deadly layout is coming

Footfall up at Leeds Corn Exchange www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/ne... 📷 27 Feb

Includes this nice picture of the building where I think any such library should be. Unsurprisingly, I think location is a key part of any decision.

This needs to involve lots of bollards and not just tarmacing them over for easier parking like we did in south Tyneside.

Excellent and in-depth article from Zoë here on the abolition of NHS England, it's especially interesting to know that there's talk of merging or partnering local ICBs with the new metro mayors.

It’s not mentioned here but I have read elsewhere that a photo has to be taken also. If a PCN can be issued based on a photo why not allow online reporting?

I honestly don't know how we managed without the Elizabeth Line, proposed for decades, opened 4 years late and yet was clearly needed. And yet the same reluctance to build or reopen rail lines persists,I don't get it. The Elizabeth Line undeniably makes the case for rail expansion across the country

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.

The king should show up personally to invite him for a full state visit.

The clouds part and a ray of sunshine comes through: £10m towards Temple Works being turned into British Library premises news.leeds.gov.uk/news/stateme... #regeneration #culture #heritage #architecture

Wrote about how Leeds is an unwilling lab rat for a particular strand of Treasury thought www.economist.com/britain/2025...

"After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%."

👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

@duncanrobinson.bsky.social doing a great job to solve the mystery of the relative and underperformance of Leeds’ economy Must Leeds always lose? IMHO it’s cos we’ve never let it win ! econ.st/4aNjhh8

This is amazing re: 20mph impact in Wales - collisions on Welsh roads at their lowest level for that quarter since records began, and 100 fewer people killed on 20mph and 30mph roads. That's 100 people alive today who potentially wouldn't otherwise be here...

It says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.

How can North England win! Tom, in one of his finest blogs sets out why North England has been losing for so long, and gives us starting points for how we can win. ✊🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...

Want cheaper car insurance? Support lower urban speed limits. That's the lesson from Britain: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

Since @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com asked sarcastically (the only type of invitation I treat seriously) I shall break my substantial silence on here to share my earlier observation upon reading @centreforcities.bsky.social newest Cities Outlook report.

Love it. Do people use new cycle lanes? 𝙔𝙀𝙎 Just look at that growth in daily bike journeys on Leith Walk in Edinburgh, from 2021🔵 (pre-cycle lane construction) to 2022🟡 to 2023⚫ to 2024🔴. #BuildItAndTheyWillCome 🚲

Data & AI Jobs in Leeds!

No-one simultaneously wields the scalpel and the cosh with quite as much lethal force as @stephenkb.bsky.social does.

Cars have killed somewhere in the region of 80 million people since invention, but somehow people still manage to get more annoyed with cyclists.

Harborne knows what's up. The Discussion poster spotted in Birmingham, England. 🔥🔥🔥 📸 @ianwac.bsky.social

No amount of riding with confidence will stop drivers being distracted or being dangerously incompetent or both. People like him say "take the lane", most people, who don't already ride, hear "take the car".

Local tree news: we’ve got two new trees on Magdalen Rd. I created a “missing trees in East Oxford” map on Google (thanks to the residents who contributed) and sent to council officers and now some of them are being planted. Amazing. 💖🌳

A snapshot of how our justice system is failing: Redi Muzhaki, 22, from Coventry: - Caused grandmother Linda Boore's (pictured) death through his careless driving, hitting her car head-on - Critically injured her husband, the passenger - Had no driving licence or insurance His punishment? 👇

Until there is proper devolution of power to local areas, people will generally take little interest in local govt. Change the name, change the distribution of responsibilities, scrap this, scrap that but meaningless without real power to local regions

Why has #JCVI restricted #Covid vaccination from 2025? Issuing a more restricted list than eligibility for flu vax doesn’t make sense when the outcomes are worse & benefits are so great especially during pregnancy. Have a read of this @karambales.bsky.social piece. bylinetimes.com/2024/12/09/c...

Damn right. Good on Jonn for his long campaign to expose NIMBY campaigns across the political spectrum - it’s a hugely costly form of organised selfishness (often justified with self-serving hypocrisy) which like Japanese knotweed, blights everything by it touches on this country

Save this one for the next time anyone brands a new cycle lane a “waste of money”… House buyers willing to pay more to live near a bike lane, researchers say road.cc/311599 #cycling

I often wonder what people like Claire Coutinho, still only five years out of KPMG, make of the reality that few of her former colleagues would vote for her party, and her current colleagues are somewhere between not caring and encouraging it.

Cycling home on CS2 tonight behind this guy with his son on his bike. Floating bus stops are an essential part of safe journeys, without them he'd have to navigate into traffic to overtake the bus

The Dept for Transport has just published a 'call for ideas' for its Integrated National Transport Strategy www.gov.uk/government/c.... Time to get reading and responding!

On the right of each of these images is a demonstration of efficiency, while on the left a depiction of the amount of space sacrificed for the occasional use of cars. there is no better visual contrast of how cycling gets a city moving and how much space is wasted on cars @cs3cs6count.bsky.social

Wow wasn’t expecting this. #Leeds #Snow

It's awful that the Tories sat in this for so long that it must have shown widespread support for a ban which didn't fit with their ideology, but also, Labour have been sitting on it for 6-months now. Tick tock.

I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)

Let's have mandatory heath checks for all drivers on licence renewal, and 5 year eye tests. And make a driving test a requirement for licence renewal too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Dear cyclists, I wish I could wear a hi-vis vest like you – being visible lowers your accident risk." 🦌 Simultaneously putting the blame for bike-car accidents on cyclists *and* painting animal collisions as inevitable facts of nature. The level of car-centric thinking at work here is impressive.