It feels like bike share 'docks'/parking hasn't yet been completely solved. London's Santander docks are inefficient (dedicated space even when empty, bikes a long way apart), expensive (power to terminal and every dock) and inflexible (can't be easily moved as a result)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Happy #sketchpadvent. Now for the last and biggest: engineers Pell Frischmann’s early 70s proposals for a cross channel bridge, linked by a massive sea-platform city for oil tankers and container ships, with an airport, helipad and homes for workers. Jingle! x

lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them

The only wine with security tags in Chipping Norton M&S. Lots were more expensive. 🤷‍♂️

Merry Imperial Pastry Stoutmas @Deya

Reminder from Brenda the civil disobedience penguin @firstdogonthemoon about surviving Christmas with climate denier relatives. Radicalise the kids instead.

Halt & Catch Fire. Season 2 Ep1. Pivot to chat: 1980s dial-up online gaming “Donna notices two users are chatting long after their game ended, inspiring her to develop standalone chat rooms”

Golf carts are puttering their way toward becoming a legit transport mode. This year, Cleveland, Corpus Christi, and South Carolina officially legalized them on local streets. Major media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and CBS News have covered their soaring popularity (esp in suburbs).

We initially designed the protected cycle infrastructure to include the RBKC side of Bayswater Road. Not surprising but nonetheless a depressing reply came back: "Stepped tracks and bus stop by-passes are just not something that is supported in RBKC currently." 1/

My Christmas wish is that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.🎄🎅

Single issue transport obsessives.....

It's astonishing how a technology called artificial intelligence has revealed the actual stupidity of so many people. This tweet hasn't been bettered

Goodwin (like similar voices) is being totally dishonest about this. Despite the equal dishonesty of its headline, the Mail story shows these weren't "anti-immigration tweets", they were calls for "slaughter" and mass violence against MPs. It's incredible that this is being openly condoned.

Southall shop owners marching in the streets because "the parking attendant guys are so aggressive and they don't give people a chance" WTAF? they don't allow people to park illegally?

It's a real shame just how much the anti-terror protection has degraded all of the cycleways on London bridges. Making what would have been a good width undersized. There are countless areas where people gather that don't have barriers. But the bridges are forever compromised.

could they fuck

Brockwell Park Festivals - Lambeth have accepted that a planning application is needed (or that it would be more expensive to continue in court).

It’s so ridiculously tacky. Italy Switzerland Austria France

This is amazing work from @lauralaker.bsky.social If you care about cycling in England then you should read and respond to the consultation THIS WEEK! Consultation closes on the 15th

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.’

I came back to take my own photos 😊 #Mobbed #PeopleTakeover

My article on the environmental health case for LTNs, published in December's EHN Magazine. 👇

Get a load of this. 😆

This looks a genuinely good rail station revamp in Cardiff, replacing a dull grey block facing a carpark with a new square and tram stop. (The north side of tracks in the original GWR facade)

A lot of folk this year. Four albums I've really loved. And the Beirut album, which I've only listened to a couple of times* Geese - Getting Killed should be in its place. *suspect left on repeat with amp off

I do sometimes wonder if I'm losing my mind. thecritic.co.uk/full...

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

The politics of the Jewish Chronicle are….interesting.

The Times be like

If you go to a suburban mall, you will probably have to park outside and walk in. You don’t expect to drive in to your store. But for some reason in urban areas it’s considered an injustice if you can’t park directly in front of the store you want to go to.

Zipcar pulling out of London. Singling out Kensington & Chelsea the borough charges residents just £63 a year for a permit for an electric car, and only a few hundred for the most polluting vehicles But charges a car club (who estimate each car removes 12 underused private vehicles) nearly £1000

Unsurprisingly @jim.londoncentric.media of @londoncentric.media (a brilliant substack reporting London which is worth your time and money) has the background on Zipcar. Council fees is a part of the story though not all. TLDR: no centralised transport policy. www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...

Fun, only glancingly related, trivia: the quote "the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results," occasionally attributed to Einstein, among other people, comes from an Al-Anon book from the early 80s

Graduate Tax (Student Loan repayments) is heavy duty now. Now wonder young people are pissed off A graduate earning just over minimum wage (c22k, London Living Wage is now £28k) is paying an extra 9% in "tax"! And their remaining debt it increasing by more than inflation each year (up to 6.2%)

IT'S TWO FUCKING WORDS HOW CAN YOU...oh I see what they've done here

If you've never seen this speech from The Long Good Friday, I can only tell you that it never gets old...or, from a broad perspective, any less tragic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVoT... #london

Introduce yourself with five pedal cycles you've owned Raleigh Strika On-One Inbred Singlespeed Canyon Commuter 9 (Alfine Belt drive) Nicolai Helius CC Rohloff Nicolai Helius AM Pinion Gearbox

I think about this tweet a lot

Things I have zero sympathy for (part x in a series): People who made decisions/rearranged their finances/left the country to *avoid paying tax* based on budget rumours/leaks/stuff thrown at the wall to judge public opinion that turned out not to be in the budget. Fuck em.

There’s nothing like a Telegraph money piece to bring out a huge orchestra of tiny violins. Fuck these people. How have they got so little self awareness that they’ll put their pictures in the national press?

You know, what the tax system needs is more complexity and weird cliff edges. FFS. Again.

This is one hell of a diss track. Cuts to the bone. “The only thing you did was yesterday” “that sound you make is musak to my ears” They were in the biggest band the world had ever seen together for decade.

I can sympathise with this line of thought.

Looks at reform gaining control of English councils. (Thread of lovely quotes from Dr Who)

Interesting that these delivery robots are being used on the pavement. I can't find any type approval or permissions. I did find a 2022 Cambridge Council doc that says the DfT advised as yet no legal definition but they were likely motor vehicles and not permitted on pavement.

We’ve mapped the mansion tax. You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you. Full interactive map here 👇

It's time to be nice about the Budget. The council tax surcharge is a good policy. Very compromised/imperfect, but still good policy. This is why:

Anyone know if this is genuine? There’s clearly loads of outrage farming on social media. It definitely generates clicks but does it actually make real money? There are people who make a living from YouTube videos, but short form stuff on twitter and FB?