Jimmy

Indeed…..

Thanks

Thanks Jim

What advice would you give to those trying to write an active travel strategy?

Martina Devlin: If Micheál Martin wants to save lives, he should do to SUVs what he did to smoking Autobesity is on the increase and it’s time to switch off the ignition on supersized SUVs and their hefty first cousins, crossover utility vehicles. SUV stands for sports utility vehicle, but strip aw...

Ireland does seem to have a penchant for very large cars - - range rovers with chest high bumpers?
Author Martina Devlin calls it autobesity and thinks they should go the same way as cigarettes

www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social

I don't even like the tone of the CW article.
The writer is beating himself up over nothing, but also managing beating every other ebike rider up too.
It certainly isn't cheating or shameful. Everyone on an ebike is lapping those on the couch or a car seat

Hey hey, there's a funded PhD place going at the Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds - spread the word
phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2165...

2nd leg on this quiet and efficient London Northwestern Railway service down to Euston. Both legs (Shrewsbury to London) for £16.60 booked 6 days in advance. Can't complain at that price!

Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars | Arwa Mahdawi Why would anyone want a car that’s too big for parking spaces, or that’s a menace to other road users? Arwa Mahdawi has a theory

I've not heard SUVs referred to as Emotional Support Vehicles before but it's a brilliant description.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everything You Thought You Knew About Roads Is A Lie YouTube video by Global Cycling Network

"Everything you thought you knew about roads is a lie" GCN go hard on induced demand and all the other follies linked to road building www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVq7...

World Curling final: Scotland beat Switzerland to take gold Scotland take gold at the men's World Curling Championship after a dramatic 5-4 victory over Switzerland in Moose Jaw, Canada.

Congratulations Bruce Mouat and Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Spread thecword, because you sure as hell won’t see this reported on the TV today. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

This great video also reminded me of an interesting facet of motonormativity: people can lose 100 hours a year in traffic and never notice; but they have one late train and it's all "Never again - you can't rely on them"

The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more

Excellent editorial here.
An SUV causes 16 times as much road damage as a regular car.
They're way more dangerous in collisions or if one hits a pedestrian or cyclist.
They have no redeeming factors and 99%+ are just ego wagons for their drivers. Tax them to hell
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I used to drop two kids at different places and get myself to work. I did it with buses and a folding bicycle. It wasn't that hard

Build it and they will cycle.
Make it safe, convenient and attractive and lots will cycle.
It is not difficult.

Motonormativity, more commonly known as #carbrain, is the subconscious bias towards car travel & accepting risks caused by cars that we treat as unacceptable in other settings/when they have other causes. We all have it.
More here benzinazero.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Find out more at our event

What can do - this has become normal!!

And this isn't even illegal, because pavement parking isn't.
It's about as anti-social and dangerous as you could think though.

An orange Brompton half-folded with a UCU Fund Higher Education Now! placard

Picketing by Brompton, fighting the threat of redundancies with @newcastleucu.bsky.social

#scientistswithbromptons

a man in a blue sweater is reading a book called sensible chuckle Alt: a man in a blue sweater is reading a magazine called sensible chuckle and chuckling.

Campaigners lose High Court fight against cycleway.

"Five legal arguments were submitted on behalf of those opposed to it, all of which were rejected by the court."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Campaigners lose High Court fight against Coventry cycleway A decision to complete the Binley Cycleway was made by Coventry City council last year.

It is quite incredible that a sustainable transport scheme, consulted on several times, can be taken to the Highest Court in the land because some residents didn't want a cycle lane in front of their house.

I am glad that common sense prevailed today.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#TheWarForCars loses again

Anyone taken the road car bit to court?

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Thank you - will look fantastic

Oooooh!

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Zelenskyy has more character and integrity than everyone in that room combined.

But then again, that’s not hard.

The strength of language on show from UK papers that might often be more sympathetic to Trump goes to show how strong the pro-Ukraine consensus is in the UK. There's no debate over here, hawkishness towards Russia is the only game in town.