alisonstenning.bsky.social
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Info here: www.railfuture.org.uk/CIV-tickets
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It's the international convention ticket that requires all train companies to put on next train, but if LNER do it anyway, seems like it might not be necessary (esp since you can now but semi-flex tickets for 70 mins leeway anyway).
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Beautiful! And yes, such a shame it’s a risky and marginal activity.
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I think they did. So often in interactions with council highways teams they have made it clear that they think anything other that very narrow road crossing protocols risks children learning bad practice. This often comes up when planning play streets which subvert the “rules of the road”.
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And we certainly need to ban talking, daydreaming, worrying, texting, admiring the view, etc for all pedestrians.
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This is the worst bit in the article. Squeezing fun out of children’s lives rather than insisting that drivers drive better.
“It is vitally important that children learn to cross the road safely, concentrating without any distractions, walking carefully and being vigilant of the traffic.”
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Local authorities are desperate for a solution that will stop people complaining about (some) boys. Until we start treating children and young people as fully human, people with as much right to public space as anyone else, authorities will no doubt continue to ignore what they need.
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Absolutely. We need both more loose (less fixed) spaces for children and YP and much more acceptance of their right to public space.
There is quite a lot of this in the Play Commission report launched last week, in case you haven't seen it.
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But that's not to say that we don't need well-invested youth and play work and things like youth clubs and designated spaces too. We absolutely do.
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In general my strong feeling (conviction) is that we need to be much more accepting of children and young people (boys and girls) _everywhere_ instead of designing spaces we think they need. We know, when they enabled to, children claim and make the spaces they need.
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Yes, I'd agree with all this, and I really worry that because boys are seen to have skate parks & ball courts they are then stigmatised in & excluded from the spaces they claim, for hanging out or "unapproved" forms of play. Boys and young men routinely have their presence in public space policed.
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Yes, I got lost the other time I tried it too. The visible waymarking doesn't really help (do I want to go towards Fitzrovia?) and the signs seemed to peter out in parts anyway.
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On the plus side, don’t have to share a 4-seater with pissed people on a night!
I do know the seating isn’t perfect, but the quiet and smoothness are lovely!
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3. Now, you may be asking, why derail an important conversation about staff mental health with these questions? Because often what's being measured or noted isn't 'mental health' or even 'mental illness'. It's more often precarity, inequality, or wider toxic, competitive and broken systems.
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Hope it went well - looks fabulous!