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A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
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The speed that pizza must have been going when it hit that tree.

Getting home from the Velo-City conference in Gdańsk was not easy. Due to a railway strike I stranded in Utrecht. Left my luggage there and got an OV-Fiets, (a single speed, backpedal brake bike) and cycled the 55km in the burning sun at 32 degrees C.

If you talk to the CEO any different to how you talk to the office cleaner you are a self interested corporate husk.

incoming, brace brace brace! www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s...;

We're going to lose a couple of blocks of a protected bike lane that went through a rigorous community consultation all because of a moral panic cooked up by people who hate bikes. Meanwhile, Ocean Parkway hasn't been changed at all since a driver murdered a mom and her young kids.

Gdansk’s Mariacka Street has prominent porches and glass cases displaying amber jewelry.

Gdansk has some interesting modern reinterpretations of traditional architectural forms.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Off to the Netherlands for a couple of weeks to ride on the red stuff 👍

In the early 60s Oxfordshire decided to start experimenting with its own road signs. They were strange, totally illegal... and years ahead of the curve on road sign design. Uncover the forgotten history of Oxfordshire's renegade experiment. #oxford www.roads.org.uk/articles/oxf...

If you see this share a skeleton.

Took a long time to get a response from my MP but... I'm actually impressed that it isn't parroting the usual BS we've heard from other Labour figures. Actually had some faith restored in them. Reply in following posts:

Autonomous vehicles are being developed to reduce staff costs to make their owners more profit.

Dropped $183 on groceries today. Hurts a little less knowing the trip didn’t cost me gas, maintenance, or a future repair bill on the car. Errands by bike save money in ways you don’t notice, until you’re staring down a mechanic’s invoice.

Quellijnstraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today

If I could fit this in my suitcase, I would take it home to Seattle.

Another busy week and it's been hot, so this is just the ticket. Next week is much calmer and I might even get a couple of afternoons off! How was your week?

"Zaphod Beeblebrox - The Britpop Years"

"man arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after a car crashed with pedestrians at a bus stop in Mitcham." For those collecting examples of folk waiting at bus stops injured by drivers www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/2521111...

I had a couple of pints with the band Goats Don't Shave after they played a gig at my university because I was covering the event for the student union newspaper. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goats_D...

The letter ‘D’ in Dunstable is load-bearing. Take it away & see what happens

Ah, #Cycleway1, the gift that just keeps on giving. Who thought it would be a good idea to have a blind turn with neither party having to give way? Perhaps TfL can tell us, seeing as how they funded this crap.

I need my car to transport my fridge, mattress and table. Your move cyclists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

Back in the 1990s my first computer mouse came in this box. I always found the image baffling – is the red area a scrotum? Or is it a pert round bottom? Is the mouse turning its head 180 degrees like an owl to inspect its throbbing arse? So many questions.

Oops www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Just let us use our own GIFs.