Mr Hounsell
hounsell.bsky.social
Mr Hounsell
@hounsell.bsky.social
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Aussie Transport Analyst - Writing on life in the urban jungle; places, living streets & quality transit. He/Him (They/Them is OK) https://linktr.ee/hounsell ✈🚢🚈🚋🚌🚕🚗🛵🚲🛴👣 🏳️‍🌈☿⚧
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Hounsell, M. (2020). Using TOTOR datasets in transport operations - Facilitating an empirically-driven continuous-optimisation approach to sustainable transport operations using TOTOR datasets [Conventional Thesis, University of Technology Sydney]. hdl.handle.net/10453/144073
OPUS at UTS: Using Big Data from TOTOR ETS to optimise public transport operations - Open Publications of UTS Scholars
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Russia's FSB (ney KGB): we'll help Farage and the useful idiots in the Conservatives to get England to leave the EU...

FSB: we'll use the Trump and the Republicans to break up NATO because German etc are free loading...

FSB: EU and NATO are doomed

FSB: Now we invade Ukraine...

Not a great plan
🇪🇸 Should Spain Remain in the EU? 🇪🇺❓

A recent poll finds 79% of Spaniards want to remain in the EU, while 16% are opposed, a strong +63% net positive for staying. 📊
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A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction

The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?... I completely forgot to link the video! Notice the masterful deployment of the frequent British confusion that the Council of Europe, the Convention and ECtHR are somewhat "Brussels EU things". 7/
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
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this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
She used an adhesive that significantly damage the coating on the statue around where she put the eyes that required the entire thing to be recoated which the ratepayers are currently paying for.
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“Quick, we need interviews with property investors, banks, real estate agents, landlords and young people with rich parents who are buying them a house.” chaser.com.au/general-news...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel.

To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense.

Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh

Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh

Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh
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Kudos to these parents calling for more safety. They are only asking for staff to monitor this driveway during school zone hours.
(Obviously) I'd go several steps further and say all schools should be aiming for total car-free zones during school hours: nltimes.nl/2023/09/08/a...
On @trashfuture.bsky.social they spoke to the DSA about the whole DSA grass-roots team hundreds-of-people effort to win Mamdani the NYC mayoralty with sustained on-the-ground in-person campaigning for years.

The paid commentators and political consultants are all talking about social media posts. 🤦
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Charlotte's transport referendum has won.

1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding:
—Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension
—Road projects (40%)
—Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)
Just with early vote reporting, Charlotte's transportation sales tax referendum is currently up 55–45%. But I caution this is just the early vote!
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Australia’s EV drip-feed just became a flood. BYD, Hyundai, Honda, Škoda, GAC, Zeekr — all dropping new EVs and PHEVs for 2026. Seven-seaters, 700 km cruisers, even a tiny Honda kei car. The future isn’t coming. It’s about to arrive in a driveway near you! www.mynrma.com.au/open-road/ne...
Fresh EV cascade: the new electric vehicle arrivals coming in 2026
Australia’s EV pipeline swells as local timing and specs revealed for BYD Sealion 8 and Škoda Kodiaq PHEVs, Hyundai Elexio, Zeekr 7GT, GAC Aion V and Honda Super-ONE.
www.mynrma.com.au
A city can not be great unless its leaders have regularly taken and do regularly take the city's public transport.

And the same for the city's bike lanes.
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
ABC Reporters, you are paid out of taxes to create the public good of free national news and entertainment. If you can't support socialism, then the have to quit!

Especially since the NYC, NY, USA mayoral race is not essential news for Australians paying for your reporting.
Many years ago, US courts found that the US government had to pay back-pay to any furloughed workers after previous Republican administrations tried to dodge their legal requirement to pay the money they had previously agreed to pay by employing any person on salary or contract. It's not debatable.
Q: Does the administration guarantee that all furloughed federal workers will get back pay?

LEAVITT: This is something we are very much open to discussing with Democrats as part of the discussions about the continuing resolution

(That's not a yes!)
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best encapsulation why everyone hates democrats despite trump being the spawn of satan