Happy valentine's day to my first true love and best friend. You are perfect in every way. ♥️🖤

A thin and feeble document telling us something we all already know. In 2040 there'll be no useful cycle network. Random stretches (if they are ever built), but on almost any ride, you'll be mixing with heavy traffic for some of it. Most of it probably. Pretty depressing to be honest.

Wednesday....

It's so disappointing to see the Echo egging this on. What's clearly poorly implemented roadworks used for prime Nimbyism. For one, why is nobody calling out that almost all of the houses 'affected' by the lane have off-road parking for *multiple* cars. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

There is no 'foreseeable future'. It will never restart. This scheme is dead and buried. Spineless.

"The night before, Ebeling and other Morton Thiokol engineers tried to convince NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that launching in cold weather could be disastrous." www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

The king stays the king. Deep and fiery!!

Almost a physical scar, that shows to this day, on everyone who watched it.

Building a bike lane in Liverpool? LOL....

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

LOL... Did someone try to make bus travel more appealing? Sheesh. Killed that quick.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Tour de France in Liverpool! Honestly. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...

Canal tow paths are not good damn active travel routes. Jesus wept. Go and look at the state of them. Go on! Then tell me you'd ride them... After dark...

Nobody will remember or care that you rode a bike in grim weather. There's no prizes for riding in icy conditions. But if you absolutely must ride... Done a few winters with these. Worth 100x the cost.

Did you have snow overnight/today? #UKSnow I’m researching public attitudes towards clearing Snow and Ice in the UK. Are you over the age of 18 and live in the UK? If so, you can take part in my research by clicking this link (details inside) app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/liverpool/...

No words can adequately explain. Yes, that actually looks like the shared use path sign is fairly new. The old ones are buried under 100,000 tonnes of sand.

Picked up an atlas off the shelf at the in-laws. 1980... 45 years ago and it had climate change front and centre.

Survive the apocalypse with walkable and bikeable cities.

New research finds that car touchscreens are so distracting that they induce "significant performance degradation" among drivers. Meanwhile, in-vehicle touchscreens remain completely unregulated in the US. doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Forward.

Very pleased to be one of the signatories on this. We called for really bold ambition, including 50% of trips under 5 miles to be made actively soon

10 years to build a bike lane. The flagship scheme for Liverpool city centre. The often promised cycling revolution. 10 years. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Black Friday 28th November - Closed As is the tradition in Picton Cycles we will be closed, I'm going out to ride my bike instead.  We will be back open as usual on Saturday for people who want to support their local bike shop

You know the story, I know the story, it's always the same... RIP.

Every word of this is true. And you don't have to cycle far round here to prove it again and again.

A question for #bikesky my cycling front and rear cameras are giving up the ghost. Recent events have convinced me to reinvest... Any recommendations on good (decent memory, decent battery life) front and/or rear facing cameras?

I heard this was coming a little while ago. The biggest question for me is if/how they can sort the geolocation for end use parking. There are times when they're an absolute pest - especially around campus. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

I've had such a crap commute this morning, that I've written to my MP and Councillor. I'm just a bloke trying to get to work, and I want to go home to my kids at the end of the day. Our road culture is fundamentally broken. cc @liamthorp.bsky.social

Having watched drivers (on two occasions, actually) undertake a funeral procession I'm not surprised by this story. Obviously a big part of this is the diminishing nature of road policing. But also, we're also afraid to flat say to some people: "you're an arsehole" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tesla has stopped caring.. it controls the narrative now... Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny | The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...

Tumbleweeds roll slowly across a scene. In the background, Liverpool.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Something, something, something. Induced demand. Something, something, something. Enjoy it while it's still free flowing. www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/2555755...

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country. Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

Drip, drip, drip.. the endless small comments... EVs aren't coming to just replace your ICE, they're coming to destroy public transport. "electric cars are now often cleaner than electric trains" "No more taxes on electric cars" "travel from Edinburgh to London on a continuous motorway"

This incident is sooooo not a pram crash! I can’t believe the #bbcnews are still using this line. Babies and toddlers in hospital for 10 days. And it’s a… pram crash. 😬😢 Still no mention of a driver. 🤨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also! The idea of "But cars are cleaner now so there's no reason not to go all-in on them" is something I was shouting about a bloody decade ago in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/sustainable-... Back then it was Zac Goldsmith, I note. Good company to keep

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

Liverpool getting some attention...

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

I am becoming convinced that autonomous vehicles are designed to solve the problem of "I live in a wealthy suburb but have a horrible car commute and don't want to drive anymore but also hate trains and buses and refuse to ride a bike."

Here's a thought. I wonder if a highway authority could ban the use of autonomous vehicles with a traffic order 🤔 Another look behind the BS with Chris.

This last bit got me... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A tragedy in 3 acts, spread over 10 years. The Derby Arms, Aughton (ish). Sadly, I can't find any photos of the inside, cos I remember it being a beautiful old pub.

10 years ago. "What this relief road needs is a relief road..." And it's only got more congested since.

I can't see any reason why this wouldn't apply to every commercial EV public charger, and every home charger for that matter. And of course, the cars themselves. (I've tried and completely failed to understand what Renault were doing with their Zoe app.)

I have another video today! It's about old-school video projectors and how amazing they were. Seriously, not only is it almost unbelievable that this even works, but it's doing full HD video with incredibly good image quality. It's also a royal PITA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8u...