loganmountstewart.bsky.social
Logan Mountstuart is a character in a novel by William Boyd, but I had to spell it a bit differently.
I like riding my bike, nature stuff, transition to living sustainably, learning Welsh and not tolerating bullying. I'm also not an American.
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Or like saying we shouldn't accept any change because we've accepted the dangers of the thing we've become used to.
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And how's the evidence looking for cars driven by human drivers then?
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Well of course there's no evidence of 100% safety - never will be. Autonomous vehicles will bring about changed behaviour. What I hope to see is less car ownership and more shared use eg self driving taxis. This could reduce the sense of entitlement of drivers and move us away from motonormativity.
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I prefer it if cars didn't run over people.
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You can see incompetent and reckless drivers every time you're out on the road. Could autonomous vehicles do worse?
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Good point. Even though those people will never know it was them. I will read your paper. Thanks again.
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Excellent video. I agreed with all of it and learnt a few things, but I'm just left thinking about poor Lee Waters who had his political career destroyed by the reaction to the 20 limit in Wales. I don't see how any political party can take on motor normativity and survive. Feeling despondent now.
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Ahj GCN, of course! Thanks.
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Please can you recommend any resources (slides, videos etc) as an introduction to motonormativity? Perhaps you've done something yourself!
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Can't believe no one's done Catch 44 already.
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Ble mae hyn?
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Coffi iâ efflai.
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We will just have to manage without you Harry. The sooner we get rid of the rest of his family the better.
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True, but better than a car.
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Thanks for that. This is mine. My typical trip is 4 miles into Chepstow and back, so this represents more than 150 trips over 18 months. I was off for a couple of months after a knee replacement op but it helped get me back on the road again.
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Thanks for that. This is mine over 18 months. I was off it for a couple of months after a knee replacement op, but it helped get me moving again. My typical trip to town and back is 4 miles so this is well over 150 trips.
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Sure. But if there was a similar death rate from aircraft crashes each year the aircraft would be grounded. But we just let people carry on driving.
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So do we just accept the death toll from driving?
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I looked up road deaths in British Columbia. In 2024, there were 315 people killed on the roads [RoadSafetyBC]. That's about 6 people each week. The nine people who we understand have tragically lost their lives in Vancouver is equivalent to about 10 normal days. The tragedy continues daily.
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Good news. The graphic shows NOx was already on the way down in previous years. Removing vehicles will consolidate it.
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"You can be told the car is unsafe but a driver is never told they are unsafe ..."
This is the real problem. There is no means to take a driver off the road *for any reason* until they are convicted of an offence. We should have mandatory requalification every 5 years.
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"You can be told the car is unsafe but a driver is never told they are unsafe ..."
This is a real problem. There is no means to take a driver off the road for any reason until they are convicted of an offence. We should have mandatory requalification every 5 years.
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For a brief moment I allowed myself to believe we might get this in the UK - or at least some movement towards it - if we could get Corbyn's Labour party elected. I think we've lost the chance for at least a generation.
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Entitled drivers again. Well I'll be avoiding
CK food stores from now on.
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Wow! I stopped there the other evening (when the shop was shut) to use the fast chargers near the entrance. I imagine they're not solar. Shop looked good though.
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An electric bike kept me on the road before and after my knee replacement. Being on the acoustic is still a joy.
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I am now a user of the word 'acoustic' to describe my non-electric bikes. Thank you.
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Yes. So the energy of the reaction also oxidises some of the nitrogen.
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Thank you. Now I get it.
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My knowledge of chemistry is still GCSE level. So I'm still at this level of understanding
hydrogen + oxygen → water
2H2 + O2 → 2H2O
Where does the NOx come from? I understand there will be pollutants from producing the hydrogen, but I don't understand how it produces NOx when burning it.
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Well done.
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I thought that was an MRI scanner.
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It doesn't say clearly but the government announcement looks as though it's aimed at England only.
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Well the actual announcement says
The funding will be made available to providers...
I'm not clear who the providers might be - developers, local authorities, housing associations? Anyone know?
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The local MP said the decision would "finally deliver a solution to the traffic chaos" faced by motorists.
I remember something like that being said about the Dartford Bridge when it was built.
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Takeaway, Birmingham
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Da iawn!
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At Chepstow station, like many others, I imagine you can only access one platform without climbing steps. Recently a woman arrived from Cardiff with a baby in a pushchair and was unable to get the train back because of the footbridge.
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That was a fascinating article. My dad used to work on Sunderland's at Pembroke Dock and elsewhere when he was doing his RAF national service in nearly '50s. Air frame fitter he was.
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I'm not a tax expert so check this out for yourself, but I've just done my parents estate and found that both partners get the 325k allowance, doubling what a couple can leave without inheritance tax. Which is another reason why hardly anybody pays inheritance tax, farmers included.
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Whereabouts is this? I want to look it up on the OS map.
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It's an asteroid on steroids now.
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I just asked Google to launch a drone attack on my neighbor's house.
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I also thought this was going to be bigger news. Interesting though.
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I just sent this to my kids and asked them if they think it's about me.
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I haven't thought of that. Of course he did!
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And Trump is exactly what Americans deserve?