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submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 6 days ago • 1185 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 12 days ago • 895 comments

Sir Keir Starmer says UK "ready and willing" to put troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Why are we literally firing national park rangers?! The National Park Service is an agency and national amenity with one of the highest approval ratings!

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Unpopular opinion (among some urbanists): The author is right. High-speed, battery-powered bikes are a menace in bike lanes. They're dangerous for those biking slower, and they deter some people from biking at all. Who wants to ride with their 5-year old while someone zooms by at 28 mph?

submitted 19 days ago • 70 comments

Courage.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Proposed Lowgate safety improvements here: yoursay.hull.gov.uk/lowgate-safe.... Have a look and complete the survey.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I think we all saw this coming but the 3am local time news dump is embarrassing. #fm25

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Things that help traffic flow freely in busy city centres: - congestion charges - clean air/low emissions zones - better public transport - better cycling/walking infrastructure - fewer, pricier parking spaces What city councils think helps traffic flow freely: - removing cycle lanes

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

My weekly Sunday long read on the slow death of local democracy. New subscribers always welcome. open.substack.com/pub/aqyoung6...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine if we paid farmers properly to enable sustainable transport in rural areas? It would: ✅ Provide travel choices that work on people’s own schedule, especially important considering infrequent bus services in rural areas ✅ Improve road safety on country lanes ✅ Increase access to nature

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

@cllrmikeross.bsky.social , did North Area Committe choose to remove/alter these bollards?

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Six-month closure of Hull’s Drypool Bridge looms. Emergency repairs to its crumbling concrete columns expected to start this Spring. Estimated cost £8m. Closure will coincide with recently extended nearby A63 works.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Councillors in @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social had the option to remove or alter barriers on the city's cycle paths straightaway. They chose to kick the decision down the road, with many intending to oppose any changes.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is an important discussion about the LA/Altadena fires and climate change. Added bonus: Just the facts, no shouting! Thanks @adamconover.net and @weatherwest.bsky.social

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments

The creep of motorisation onto pedestrian space continues. This truck is parked right up to the house and so it is simply too big to be parked there.

submitted 46 days ago • 23 comments

Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read. REPOST gavinnewsom.com/california-f...

submitted 53 days ago • 391 comments

Spiralling global temperatures: 2024 edition

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

Welcome to the legendary @mrmarkhodson.bsky.social, retired traffic cop, defender of cycling and tiresome campaigner for road safety, highlighting bad driving versus the law. Give Mark a follow

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

submitted 59 days ago • 42 comments

Make your city's streets safer and more accessible for walking and cycling by eliminating through motor traffic from neighbourhoods and building protected cycle tracks on main roads, and you'll eliminate the need for roads to be clogged with SUVs during school pick-up time.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Instead of just electrifying the status quo, Dutch cities’ new Zero-Emission Zones include incentives to shift freight and service transport to cargo bike, with their infrastructure making it safe and time-competitive—creating a win-win for entrepreneurs and for cities. zagdaily.com/places/the-n...

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Top Hits #Countdown #4 "Long COVID looks exactly, and I mean exactly, like chronic Lyme.” MIT researcher Michal Tal has investigated the immune response in cancer, chronic Lyme disease, and long COVID. READ MORE: lymedisease.org/long-covid-l... #LymeDisease #TopStories

submitted 69 days ago • 7 comments

Interesting discussion of the immune system and similarities between Long COVID, Gulf War and ME/CFS. “Clinically you cannot tell them apart”

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

BUT MY CAR with extra moans about cyclists looking “professional” in lycra.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

This sums it up, yes.

submitted 74 days ago • 733 comments

This new non-compliant zebra (without Belisha beacons) has popped up 100m from Department for Transport HQ, meaning ministers & civil servants will use it daily. Some councils are frustrated with the time it has taken Government to consider a change in regs, so have seemingly done it anyway.

submitted 76 days ago • 12 comments

The only way to get drivers to slow down and be careful is to make them constantly afraid of scratching their cars.

submitted 78 days ago • 15 comments

Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 82 days ago • 130 comments

BBC News - Coroner's road signs concerns after cyclist death www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

You don't need to have wide roads in order to build safe cycling infrastructure.

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Sheffield’s first ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout has opened. Compared to installing traffic signals, the design is safer for pedestrians and cyclists, causes less delay to people driving, and creates more green space. www.facebook.com/share/v/18e3...

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments

Protected cycle tracks allow primary school children to safely cycle back home together and wave goodbye from the bike

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Posts about urban biking in #Dutch cities are routinely replied to with something like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.” The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter decisions.

submitted 88 days ago • 34 comments

Dulwich Village Part 3. I’m exhausted just documenting this - I can't imagine what it was like for councillors and officers. bsky.app/profile/cold...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Syrian government appears to have fallen in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family apnews.com/article/syri...

submitted 88 days ago • 280 comments

The impact of ever larger cars - surely this is the major contributor to falling bus speeds in London. Calculations follow but over the last 25 years the growth in width of the average car is the equivalent of up c16% reduction in road width.

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

New on Nebula! The video I was going to make last week before Secretary Pete crashed the party nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve nature and green integrated in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed density of people and buildings that you achieve, the fewer cars you’ll need or want.

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

I was just taking a peek at the ocean heat content in the Caribbean, and on December 2, it is STILL higher than it would normally be at the peak two months ago. 🌊🥵 @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 4 comments

Wishing a very happy sunday to the people behind the fake NASA accounts who are now in the top 5 of the most blocked accounts during the last 24h. (via @clearsky.app)

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

In Tblisi, Georgia, the situation is getting more grim by the minute. Protestors are now using molotov cocktails to attack security forces.

submitted 95 days ago • 42 comments

Did you know that scientists no longer use the Richter Scale to measure earthquake magnitude? Now, we tend to use the “Moment Magnitude (Mw)” scale, which was built off of the tenets of the Richter scale. 🧪 ⚒️

submitted 95 days ago • 41 comments