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Cyclops Dave
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Co-inventor of cyclops junctions.

Also does other stuff that you’re even less interested in.
The only thing worse than a very expensive bridge that we don’t really need… is half an expensive bridge.

If HS2 doesn’t get to Crewe it’s utterly insane (because it’d make the West Coast Mainline worse!)
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Can’t fully pedestrianise/bus only all of Deansgate unless/until you relocate/close lots of multi-storey car parks.

But why you would choose to park there is beyond me!
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’ve tried and failed to get a Sustrans portrait bench of Sister Rosetta Tharpe on the Floop!

Worth trying again though!
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🤯”Bicyclists are channelled to… crossings of the intersecting streets just outside the normal pedestrian crosswalk area. In effect a bikeway ring around the intersection is created”🤯

Holy Moly that’s a cyclops!
1976! And none got built!
I was two!
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I’m not.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Nope. Because I can’t open the link to the age verification site, until I go through age verification…
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They finished electrifying the Trans Siberian Railway in 2002.

But I’m sure the technical difficulties of getting wires across the Pennines are considerable…
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Brighouse? You were lucky! I have to get an infrequent and unreliable bus from Wyke to get to the Greek restaurants and fancy cheese shops of liberal elite Brighouse.
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Whereas Labour are offering no positive solutions at all; and even that’s a manifesto pledge that they will struggle to deliver on…
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
the last three in are usually two of the survivors of the shortlist, and one of the traitors, or one of the people with a shield.
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
wait, what?!
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM