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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 1d

I was talking about the contemptuous statements about nature from senior Labour ministers, not anything you said.

Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 1d

There is no need for the contemptuous statements they continually make about the natural world. Building more houses, fine, building at the cost of the destruction of what's left of the nature in the UK, not fine.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 1d

Although it's a joke, I genuinely think it's a good idea in many ways.

Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond disappointing to see Rachel Reeves continue the Labour govt's war on nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Could her oiling of the wheels for this developer be the equivalent of Robert Jenrick's Richard Desmond farrago?

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 2d

I guess it comes from not wanting to allocate space to cycling. You could have a cycle track leading to a waiting area, but it would mean taking space from motor vehicles.

Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 2d

That one is so narrow I doubt you could use it to filter if there were stationary vehicles either side.

Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick - not a nice man www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 2d

This is the Ugly: a narrow, painted cycle lane in between two traffic lanes on the approach to a busy junction. How would you redesign this? 3/3

Painted cycle lane on Chain Lane, Knaresborough.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 2d

There are plenty of contenders for the Bad, including the narrow painted cycle lanes on High Bridge. Another is a preposterous cycle path that starts about 10m before a roundabout and chucks you back onto the A-road about 20m after it 2/3

High Bridge Knaresborough, with narrow painted cycle lanes.

Preposterous short cycle path, Knaresborough.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 2d

I've been looking at cycle infra in Knaresboro, and here's the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The Good is a modal filter which prevents rat-running from new housing developments through older housing estates towards the town centre. (It should really be the Brilliant) 1/3

Modal filter at the end of Eastfield, Knaresboro

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 3d

Good News: we've started construction work on the permanent Cycleway 4 extension from Charlton to Woolwich🚲🚲🚲

Cycleway 4 will run from Plumstead right into London Bridge enabling 1000s of people to safely cycle through Greenwich, Lewisham & Southwark in South East London.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 4d

@ynymayor.bsky.social 2 points about the Local Growth Plan yorknorthyorks-ca.gov.uk/york-and-nor...
(1) Clean energy is great but burning wood at Drax is NOT clean energy, it's a carbon accounting trick that covers up vast quantities of GHG emissions.
(2) The text on the CA website is too wide

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 5d

That's also a good reason not to vote for the Reform party.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 5d

And para 7.3.3 onwards

Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 5d

You need LTN 1/20 para 6.4.21 onwards harrogatecycleaction.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 5d

And £3.50 for the opportunity to choose your room before you get there! But it's only an odge; a lodge would be more expensive and include more things.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 5d

It would be hard to beat 'I boiled my wooden spoons'.
Maybe 'I used coffee instead of shower gel for a week, and here's what I learned'.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 5d

As a newspaper columnist, if someone overcharges you for a coffee, you're rubbing your hands thinking 'there's a piece about the state of modern Britain in this!' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 6d

Yes but I think conservation grazing involves small numbers of cattle, and the vast majority of meat and dairy comes from intensive production methods.

Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 7d

Badenoch removing the last vestiges of decency and reasonableness from the Tory party www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More heatwaves and extreme flooding events everyone? It doesn't seem sensible to me.

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 7d

Another fox picture from London.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 7d

Urban fox, London.

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 9d

Ed Miliband is the best of the Labour government ministers because he's not afraid to do what he sees as right www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is Labour's opportunity, but too many of the other ministers are timid plodders, desperately trying not to offend anyone.

Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband

Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energy

www.theguardian.com

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 9d

Cycling along the Embankment in London on a Santander cycle youtu.be/o8hJUKwKz5k?...

Cycling along Embankment, London

YouTube video by valthorens7373

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Hedgehog Cycling @hedgehogcycling.bsky.social · 10d

What Harris does - bring news of UKIP-style bigotry - is useful to an extent, but he is relentlessly negative and always makes a depressing read.

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