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Steve Chambers

@planningtransport.co.uk

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Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk Can also be found: Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros 📸 pixelfed.social/respros 🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 12h

Most of the shocks that have happened were predictable* when she came up with her rules. She set herself up to fail.

*A benefit change u-turn that ended up costing more than doing nothing was a surprise.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 12h

Hard to see how any significant change is going to happen with Reeves still in post.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h

The UK’s failing fiscal framework is a Brexit tribute act on.ft.com/3VVWiKi | opinion

The UK’s failing fiscal framework is a Brexit tribute act

The path and peak of policy uncertainty over the past year eerily mimics sentiment at the time of the 2016 referendum

on.ft.com

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Reposted by Steve Chambers

Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · 17h

In this clip, Wheels4Me loan recipient, Jeremy tells us how having access to cycling has helped him reconnect with his family & get back to doing things that were important to him.

Watch the full video on YouTube & find out how you can trial a cycle yourself at wheels4me.co.uk

youtu.be/q-ZnnXd3M2s

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 20h

Do hope nobody kills them before they reach their bunkers. That would be a terrible shame and I hope that doesn't happen.

Paul Ross @paulross.bsky.social · 22h

Too fucking right we should! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.co.uk

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 21h

Terrible name.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 21h

Do they understand what decentralised means?

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 21h

It requires your Bluesky credentials to log in. bsky.app/profile/jay....

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 1d

New reddit alternative built on AT

nooki @nooki.me · 1d

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 21h

If driving licenses are struggling to keep up with the weight of new cars, how do you imagine 50+ year old multistorey car parks are doing?

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 22h

Government snuck in a change to licences at one point to cope with new electric vehicles, although the cars just kept getting bigger and so that limit is now being tested. It is about time the Government took a stand against the car manufacturers (won’t happen)

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...

Major new driving licence rules introduced for electric cars

An updated weight restriction for category B driving licences has been introduced by the Government on 10 June.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 22h

The railways are never going to break even. At best London and the SE plus two main lines might subsidise the rest. But there will always be some subsidy.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 22h

This is Treasury led, therefore ruinous.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 22h

Vacuous stuff again. Passengers are taxpayers. And everyone benefits from reversing climate change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greater Anglia nationalisation will deliver 'value for money' - BBC News

The transport secretary says the move will bring value for money, but she did not promise lower fares.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 22h

Central heating/radiators timed to be on when you want to get up. So much easier to get out of bed in a warm room. Our boiler kicks in 30 minutes before my wakeup time. I have a coffee machine in my room and that motivates me to get out of bed to turn it on!

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 1d

This pudding might be a little over-egged.

Alt text for OP: seat projection of 391 for Reform.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Seat Projection:

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 1d

If you are a cafe or restaurant and the only place you post your menu is to instagram, I can't read it

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 2d

Didn't remember this pub having an N.E. sign on it.

Eleanor Road, N.E. sign on put with sign Pub on the Park

Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 2d

White people have no ethnicity latest.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.