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roadscholar.bsky.social
Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
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The spiders that ate Ebbsfleet ✍️ @roadscholar.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Do you want to make UK transport better? There’s one thing you can do about it. But you’ve got to do it before tomorrow evening.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

My Dad grew up with MK being built around him. In 40 years he has never shut up about the old town he lived in, but not once has he complained about the stuff that was built over.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Here in the UK we privatised air traffic control in 2001. It wasn't the end of the world, and we didn't need to manufacture a crisis to make it happen. The air traffic controllers even got a 5% ownership stake and a shiny new building out of it. There's plenty else to worry about instead.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Adam is the sunny optimist. He sees us as being able to hit the mid2000s in civil service IT sophistication. In my patch, we were looking forward to the innovations of the late 80s.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Job ad of the year just dropped: its only BLACK ROD housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

Wrote about how Leeds is an unwilling lab rat for a particular strand of Treasury thought www.economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

HT @roadscholar.bsky.social :- "This means that in England, now, we can't build in towns because of people. We can't build in the countryside because of trees. And we can't build on industrial wasteland because of the spiders." ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/jumping-sp...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

You know what we need to build, build, build? The grid, pylons, wind farms, solar farms and the rest that are essential to decarbonising our economy. If you’re serious about tackling climate change you have to be serious about building (not something the Green Party seem to have noticed)

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

This is infuriating. If the government want an easy win for growth and to support pubs, they should change the licensing laws to make noise complaints much harder. www.the-londoner.co.uk/noise-compla...

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments