Friendly reminder that the transformation underway in #London is largely paid for by Londoners - tube fares the vast majority of it. With tiny proportion from boroughs usually topping up from fees on car parking or new development (if they it).

@edp24.bsky.social was there a person behind the steering wheel? www.rc-rg.com/about

Fantastic turnout for the @norwichcycling.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social #GlowRide here in Norwich - safe cycling for all #FeministCity

11 years before that, government added a second tunnel across the Thames.

17 years before that, the first tunnel opened.

(Photo (C) National Highways)

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

I thought of this cliched quote as I drove over the QE2 Dartford Bridge last weekend.

Opening date: 1991.

(Photo (C) National Highways)

The UK has the worst paternity leave in Europe. Literally, there is no other country less generous that ours.

I'm taking part in the #DadStrike next week where I'll be taking time off work to do the nursery run in support of better paternity leave.

Off usualy topics, but amazing couple of images of #Roman #England that have come across my screen. Roman London with a barely extand south london under water; and East Anglia largely under the waters of the river Bure, Yare and Waveney Estuary - land that is today reclaimed for Great Yarmouth.

Talking how bendy, up-and-down wires can save millions of pounds on #railway electrification works with @noeldolphin.bsky.social on the edge of the Brecs at Global Centre for Rail Excellence