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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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 · 1d

& 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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

🙏 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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

*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 · 4d

He’s got a point

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Kidical Mass London @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social · 4d

And once you’ve done that don’t forget to attend @ibikelondon.bsky.social amazing annual spooky Halloween ride. 🧙🎃👻 Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sou...

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Kidical Mass London @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social · 4d

Come to the annual Columbia Road day of the dead ride from Columbia Primary to Tower Hamlets Cemetery! 🎃👻💀🧙 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-da...

London's Day of the Dead 2025 – cycle ride

11.00am – London’s Day of the Dead Cycle Ride leaves from Columbia Road in collaboration with Kidical Mass

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 5d

Some people were asking.

This is an oil pipeline.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve seen in Holland when the cycle track is centred in the lane which is a clear signal bikes have priority. It seems maybe an extra you could apply by paint eg in an LTN but often the volume of traffic is just too high & drivers here too aggressive. Interested to see if the Cambridge one works.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 6d

I wondered about something similar for Whitmore Rd (cycleway1) in Hoxton. If there is a clear expectation cyclists ride primary and have priority it could improve safety & deter cars. But basically it just seems inferior to a modal filter. Why not just remove the cars completely?

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 7d

"Car advertisements are as unrealistic as cigarette advertisements were prior to the UK ban, portraying glamorous aspirational scenarios that users cannot achieve...Congestion, air pollution, noise, crashes, and impacts of climate change do not feature." 💯 www.fph.org.uk/blog/cars-as...

Cars as commercial determinants of health

Transport is important for health.

www.fph.org.uk

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting- I’ve tried to get my institute (the CIEH) to do this in the past without much success and this has inspired me to try again. It is so important reputable organisations are prepared to unequivocally stand up for evidence of what works

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 7d

If you need further illustration of just how much of a bunch of bad-faith disingenuous charlatans the ‘social justice’ antiLTNers are then look no further than their attacks on London’s ULEZ, an astonishingly effective main road pollution-reduction policy. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

X post in which John Stewart of ‘SEJ’ describes ULEZ as ‘a punitive ULEZ charge on poorer car owners’

X post in which John Stewart of ‘SEJ’ describes ULEZ as ‘a regressive tax which tends to hit poorest car owners hardest’

X post in which ‘little ninja’ self-styled air quality and social justice campaigner makes totally unsubstantiated and false claims about ULEZ increasing air pollution exposure for London’s ‘poor and black children who are already at greatest risk’

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 8d

#NotABicycle 😡

A motorbike parked in the bike parking outside leisure centre

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 9d

Yes I took it down one direction but had the kids with me so couldn’t easily get the other. Just deeply pathetic someone has gone to that effort.

Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 9d

Balls Pond Road Hackney. Imagine going to the effort of designing, printing, sticking to card and then putting up this cycle-hating sign in a country with 29,000 annual serious motor-casualties. The endless press & SM hate has gone too far.

Home made sign put up at cycle crossing saying Attention Cyclist in red dots on a green dot background subtitled (all caps) SEE THAT? THEN YOU CLEARLY CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RED AND GREEN

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Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 10d

A very interesting analysis

British men are driving less, and a culture is vanishing
economist.com/britain/2025...

British men are driving less, and a culture is vanishing

Farewell to the road warriors

economist.com

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