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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 16h

I think it's always interesting to reframe stats to the cost of NOT doing the thing.

20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 16h

In Wales, Cornwall, Edinburgh, London and so many places when most 30mph roads were changed to 20mph, people injured or killed by motor vehicles reduced by 20%+. With minimal change to journey times and £2bn saving in insurance costs it's a huge win. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 1d

👏 fantastic work well done!

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 1d

@islington-council.bsky.social leading the way showing how change away from motor-dominated streets is possible 👏

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

You recognised the Wenlock from that blurry picture? 😆🫡. No didn’t know they did it! I like the genre though especially the Anspach London Black nitro porter which they have in the Earl of Essex up the road (another local with a cracking selection)

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

Having a random day off work indulging in fun stuff (like daytime drinking). Kent brewery oatmeal stout 🤌

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

A Hackney "Cycleway". Paint a few bike symbols on tarmac and let motor traffic dominate. An embarrassing mess ten years ago, an even worse mess today. hackneycyclist.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-lo...

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely. This section would be vastly better with a minor amendment to the Hoxton LTN but Officers just don’t seem to get it. Between Old St & Southwark Bridge through CoL it is also pretty bad in an easily resolvable way. These are such easy wins for huge improvements @willnorman.co.uk

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 2d

So much of this route could be made amazing with a proper cycle street treatment (with a cycleway budget).

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Ben Rometsch @benr.win · 2d

100% agree. This is on my work route and is one of the most dangerous parts of my journey. LOTS of traffic traversing that road too.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

Also FFS include the prices with the menu or I’m not gonna risk it especially if I’m taking the whole family out. What feels like a relatively new trend of publishing menus online without prices is infuriating. Just why would anywhere do this?

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

On my way back I saw a woman in SUV with child in front seat, clearly late for school, aggressively overtaking and weaving between groups of cyclists including school children. This street can easily be filtered there is just no need to allow this on Hackney’s busiest cycleway.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

The situation on cycleway 1 at Whitmore Road is just completely unworkable and it is a travesty the Hoxton LTN hasn’t been designed to fix this. There is *far* too much motor traffic for these cycle flows. Someone is going to get hurt. @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social @hackneylcc.bsky.social

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 3d

This one nearly made me spill my tea. I’m trying to understand if she genuinely can’t see the link between the Tory Brexit project and the size of the civil service for no tangible gain. She actually seems to believe this is some leftist giant-state conspiracy…No it’s FAFO on a national scale.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 4d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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City Infinity @cityinfinity.bsky.social · 4d

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council.

This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

What makes side road junctions pedestrian-friendly?

ForewordThis post has a companion written by Robert Weetman. We have been working collaboratively on something which we think needs to be more widely known, but we also thought it might be fun and …

cityinfinity.co.uk

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 4d

& not only do they get to benefit from cheap land & the direct tax subsidy but also the enormous indirect subsidy of society paying for all the road infrastructure that makes it possible whilst they externalise the costs onto the environment & those who live with the deliberately generated traffic

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected] @gazza-d.bsky.social · 4d

Possibly the poster child of this phenomenon is Gateshead who in the 80s allowed the MetroCentre to be built on land that was free from business rates.
The MetroCentre finished off the high street.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 5d

While the Internet has had an impact, the main cause of the death of high streets is the out-of-town retail park. Any council which gave planning permission to a retail park only has themselves to blame for the destruction of their city centre.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 4d

And of course you can equally imagine an article entitled ‘how Planners killed your local pub’ bemoaning how some thriving old pub got destroyed by an ugly bolt-on housing extension & how planners just let it happen with no care for aesthetics or our fragile hospitality economy

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 4d

🙏 The first sensible comment I’ve seen! Generalised criticism of planning officers & pushing the idea of an insane wasteful bureaucracy is so unhelpful. Planners may not always get it right but they operate within a system of rules, all created for particular reasons. That is where to look

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 5d

Blimey. Not often I find myself agreeing with Tories but credit to @tomtugendhat.bsky.social for at least understanding & being prepared to admit this. Next up, admit the vandalism of Brexit & austerity on young people…

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5d

Punchy opening from Tom Tugendhat, who says the move of young voters from centrist parties is "a logical series of outcomes for an economic system that has effectively become a Ponzi system for the old", eg the pension triple lock.

"Guess what? They have worked it out," Tugendhat says.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 5d

Well, I did waste a few minutes of my time having a pop at that guy who used a colour blindness chart spoof to whine about "cyclists" jumping red lights.

On his professional social media turf of course.

www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...

Here's a post from Alex Robson which a fuels long-running narrative against a group of people who share nothing in common other than their mode of transport, and of course everyone is multi-modal....

Here's a post from Alex Robson which a fuels long-running narrative against a group of people who share nothing in common other than their mode of transport, and of course everyone is multi-modal. I a...

www.linkedin.com

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 5d

I assumed it was together or some other amateur idiot-group. I’m shocked this is actually their job. I’d be embarrassed to advertise that as an example of professional design work. An unfunny dull all-caps hate-piece that looks like it was designed on MSword by a frothing Daily Express reader

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 6d

Thousands of road deaths a year caused by motor vehicles, speeding almost completely ignored by authorities, drink and drug driving at record highs and this is how you choose to spend your time, boasting about your stupid stunt and your shit marketing company on LinkedIn. Pathetic.

Idiot marketing knumskulls on LinkedIn putting boards up at traffic lights about cyclists jumping red lights

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 6d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 7d

He’s got a point

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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