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How long does it take the median person to walk to the nearest bakery? I'm not sure, but I had a go at working it out using the Foursquare OS Places dataset and some old European Commission population grid data, making some pretty daft assumptions along the way (e […] [Original post on masto.ai]

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I swear, the longer you look at this, the worse it gets…

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NEW: Measuring living standards using average household spending paints a starkly different picture of regional inequalities than using income. @peterlevell.bsky.social & Gautam Vyas’s new IFS/@escoeorg.bsky.social research on which areas in Britain have the highest standard of living: [THREAD]

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Never forget, change is possible!

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My "no nuclear winter" announcement sure is raising a lot of questions already answered by my announcement.

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Petite expérience involontaire mais intéressante du fonctionnement de X, en quatre actes. ⤵️ Acte 1 : je poste hier soir un tweet anodin sur le beau temps à Paris (25,9 °C correspond à la maximale moyenne en juillet/août). Tout allait bien, jusqu'à... 1/4

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Charles Babbage was a weird dude

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How does politics shape the world’s time zones? Really nice piece by @oliviafvane.bsky.social on @economist.com ~ www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Dans notre nouvel article, on te dit où trouver les parkings vélos sécurisés de Nice, et comment y accéder ! (SPOILER : pas à vélo) niceavelo.org/parkings-vel...

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66% des Parisiennes et des Parisiens sont pour végétaliser et rendre piétonnes 500 nouvelles rues dans les tous les quartiers ! Nous continuons d’agir pour améliorer la qualité de vie à Paris et renforcer la démocratie.

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Tired - greyhound racing Wired - T-Rex racing

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🇬🇧 🇫🇷 New: Dover-Boulogne sailing for foot passengers… ⛵️ Saillink - a regular, timetabled catamaran sailing boat! “Forget the ferry or train: this is the new way to cross the Channel.” 🤔😳 OMG - I need to travel UK-Europe in April…. - www.saillink.co.uk www.thetimes.com/article/29a7...

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La Suisse renvoie à la France l’image de ses retards en matière de relations ferroviaires transversales. Des relations TER peu convaincantes entre Genève (514.000 h dans le canton) et Lyon (1.433.000 h dans la métropole), 162 km, et plus encore vers Grenoble (450.000 h dans la métropole), 169 km.

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The Greater London Authority have published a new London Building Stock Model, showing estimated energy efficiency (and many housing characteristics) for every home and residential building in the city. All data is downloadable and there's a cool interactive map data.london.gov.uk/dataset/lond...

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some vanishingly rare great news www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today? Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.

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Nice demonstration that insisting on border controls at stations leads to inflexibility - bomb found at St Denis means all Eurostars between London and Paris are cancelled Checks on trains instead probably would have allowed some rerouting www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-... @jonworth.eu

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Jon's top three countries to AVOID on Interrail 🇸🇪Sweden They can never tell you long enough ahead when track works are planned 🇫🇷France You need loads of reservations (cost at least €10 each) so can't be flexible 🇪🇸Spain Like France, but with the added joy of compulsory reservation regional trains

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Many Europeans say their nations are on the wrong track with housing

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Plans to boost capacity at St Pancras are welcome. But the hurdles to run trains from London to 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭 and 🇫🇷 beyond Paris are elsewhere, as I explain in this piece for the iPaper inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... #CrossChannelRail

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Four nuggets of Postcode Address File news (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/paf-in-par...

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Shocking clip from @bbcarchive.bsky.social on conditions in the notorious Divis Flats in West Belfast in 1980: youtu.be/x52stFqfZ7A

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Here's the geography of alcohol-specific mortality in the UK. Such a clear North West/South East gradient, with a few notable exceptions on the South Coast. Glasgow and surrounds still have the highest rates, but Sunderland, Belfast and Blackpool aren't that far behind.

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🕒 "To reduce platform dashes train details will be deleted from departure boards three minutes before they leave. The final call for long-distance trains will be made four minutes before departure." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Sunday Times: ‘Dirty tricks’ revisited as Virgin Group hits out at Eurostar. “As Sir Richard Branson’s company plans to launch a rival cross-Channel service, it says the monopoly operator on the rail link is ‘playing games’ to thwart it” 🆓⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/2c83...

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Les Chemins de fer de Provences werden irgendwie zu einer typischen Schweizer Meterspurbahn oder so. www.nicematin.com/transports/-...

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Iryo will accept Interrail/Eurail passes from April 1st onwards, in their Singular (2-2 seating) and Singular Only You (2-1 seating) classes, with reservations costing about the same as on Renfe's services. community.eurail.com/news-and-ann...

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Rail passenger rights continue to be an absolute clusterf*ck in Europe, a thread. Last week, I travelled London-Frankfurt via Brussels, probably one of the busiest corridors of European rail travel. On the return, I had ICE 14 booked from Frankfurt - scheduled departure 14:14, arrival 17:35.

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When you look at small cities (200k or less) that built a light metro (not many indeed), there is a common pattern that helps explain how they managed to do so: the deep bored alignments and the related deep C&C stations are kept to the strictest minimum, just to go through the denser core.

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