Did you know that "noon" never used to be at 12? Or that a "second" is actually the second of something? These are just a couple of the revelations in my latest wordy nerdy video. Do please give it a watch: youtu.be/TK-8gfqmFNo?...

A baker in Amsterdam, 1979

The freeze on fuel duty is estimated to have cost £133 billion in lost revenue since 2011. At a time of difficult fiscal choices, we're joining @bettertransport.bsky.social in calling to end the fuel duty cut and charge a simple per-mile charge for electric vehicles 🚗 https://bit.ly/49bYnts

Great to see this motion on 20mph in Stockport. In the past few years I've heard some frankly misleading statements from officers on this matter, and there is no acknowledgement that a bit-by-bit approach is less effective and much more expensive. Follow Manchester's lead.

It’s #Monday but don’t pretend you don’t see that #litter! 👀🐕 Too many just walk by. We’re a powerful force for good.Let’s get visible so others follow. 28,000 dog owners picking up litter to protect animals,communities & the environment,removing 41 MILLION pieces every year #dogsofbluesky

You’ve been told ‘scrapping Net Zero will reduce the cost of living’, so I asked X users how much the average U.K household pays per day to deliver a clean, independent energy system. 💷 9% thought £7.85. 💷 7% £5.16. 💷 14% £3.09. 💷 70% £1.63. None were correct. It’s 47p.

"Will let voters down"? Is that the sound of the Labour Party jealously guarding its turf as the Letting Down Party?

Do you despise vehicular cycling, feel unseen by normalized hostile infrastructure, and feel like you're forced to exist in a world built for men who are comfortable being uncomfortable? A new film-length explainer by NJB. 👇

Oh, we'll let voters down will we, Darren? More than your genocide-enabling, non-child-poverty-alleviating, non-wealth-taxing, protest-criminalising, authoritarian bunch of suitcase career politicians have? Doubt it mate. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?

60 London Underground staff some who have worked on tube for years could face deportation under tightened visa rules bit.ly/3XpfRuZ

What is wrong with anti trans activists that makes them behave like this. Making it a personal mission to persecute a vulnerable minority group and make their lives worse is such an inexplicable priority. It’s just mean spirited bullying and their self justifications for it are such obvious BS

You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.

Labour once again showing that they are utterly crap and short sighted. They can see the cost of something, but don't have the ability to see the value of that investment. Like the Tories do, they sell the country short.

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

Salford Chapel St new cycleways under construction. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

All because some of you out there are still buying Teslas from a Nazi.

Pleased to see some good progress on the construction of the improved footways and cycle tracks through Nelson, Lancs. I wouldn't say the designs are fully LTN1/20 compliant with lots of locations where the cycle tracks become shared footways, but it'll be the first decent onroad route in E.Lancs.

It’s so great that every Labour politician running the country is still on there merrily posting away into the void

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

This has been a really bad day for UK government environmental policy

Mark Ilderton, ScotRail: “we’re going into winter now & likely to have speed restrictions due to weather for the whole season. When I started in rail, we used to have 1 or 2 storms to deal with - now it’s 7 or 8 named storms every season, this is climate change impacting on the customer experience”

There was a prominent article on the BBC home page recently exploring, with a particular angle, political views within town(s). By the number of people who sent me a link, I think you'll know the one I'm referring to! 🧵 1/n

I’m at the Rail Industry Association annual conference today, auspiciously timed as the Great British Railways legislation is also being laid before parliament today. The Secretary of State for transport, Heidi Alexander, is giving keynote now. I’ll share here if she says anything noteworthy!

If you want to learn a little more about our work with Robert Weetman on better side road junction design, @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social's slides from yesterday's Landor Active Travel Innovations conference are available on the Community page of our website. cityinfinity.co.uk/community/

Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel. To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense. Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh

Can I tell my NYC mayor story again today? Ok, fine.

There’s many things going wrong with the world, but the bikeification of Antwerp (and Paris, and to a lesser extent Brussels) since Covid has been a wonder to behold

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic

I find it notable that Wilders et al haven’t said a word about the Huntingdon attack You don’t always have to comment on everything, of course. But we all know that if the suspect had been Muslim they’d have been all over it. It’s never about the victims, always about their their own prejudices

Godfrey is at again….now at Union Station in DC doing his Trump impression for the troops 🤣💀

@allenanalysis.bsky.social ♨️ HOLY HELL; 🔥 JB #Pritzker just went nuclear on #Trump: “Donald Trump & his bootlickers have torn down the Department of Education from the inside. Books are being banned. History is being erased. And Donald Trump and his cronies can f*** all the way off.” 1-2

As far as the right is concerned, the colour of your skin trumps everything else when it comes to deciding whether you're British. That's pretty much the definition of racism.

"a large one-off payment and an annual stipend designed to prevent him overspending in his new life" They really do not get it, still, at all!!! (Yeah, sure, it's from the king's "private funds". So included income from the Duchy of Cornwall for much of his mothers' life.)

Scrap the "temporary" fuel duty cut, and reintroduce the fuel duty escalator and help under 22s with discounted fares. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’re in the Cotswolds for the weekend. Seeing the number of huge 4x4s on the roads, I’m guessing that farming must be booming here, with the land routinely very boggy & frequent icy conditions in winter. Also, someone is making good money cleaning all the mud off these farm vehicles.

Taking a spin on Cycleway 4 with #TheDoodle and #MPoulet. *Impossible* without the floating bus stops.

Right wingers. "We can say what we like because we have free speech." Also right wingers "You should stick to cars and not mention politics." Um, what happened to that free speech? Oh, it only applies when someone says something you agree with? Interesting...

Been watching that #MarkHerron #DownCemeteryRoad and I have to say #RuthWilson can ride a bike @cycloxoxford.bsky.social @coolbikeart1.bsky.social @ruthmayorcas.bsky.social @roxyfromoz.bsky.social

Happy Halloween from west London’s extremely evil cycling lobby

Beggars (can’t be choosers) Canyon

I see #Havering 's two Tory MP votes to support Farage's fascist leave the ECHR bill 🤮 votes.parliament.uk/votes/common... #LocalNews

Private Eye nailing it.

Although the historically progressive Nederland may have recently experienced a downward dip in this trend, they appear to be coming out of the other side. We should take comfort in this and as Stuart suggests focus on returning our country to the tolerant place we love www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s common sense to proactively address/mitigate climate change. It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities. It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities. It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.

“Kids make mistakes. Kids get distracted. It's our responsibility when designing cities to think, what is that child's experience and how do I ensure what I'm doing will have a positive impact. as opposed to putting the burden on their caregiver to ensure they're safe.” biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...

Some Dutch voters are struggling with their ballots.

Wind power has saved a collective £104 billion of energy bills over the last 15 years. That's great news and shows that renewables are the future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...