Aerial view of the square showing the road going diagonally across the square and splitting in the middle to go either side of the statue.
“Gentlemen, there is no "architecture" in this square and you know it.” — a Bristol Councillor arguing for the construction of the dual carriageway through the square in the 1930s.
Queen Square in Bristol.
Doing ok without a dual carriageway through the middle since 1992 🥰
The Christmas Steps lane facing downhill with strings of lights cross crossing between old shop fronts. A sign reminders CARLOS TROWER, “The African Blondin’, high rope performer and abolitionist, who lived in this house in 1876
Entrance of Bristol Temple Meads with tall brick and stone arches with sun shining through windows casting grid shapes onto brickwork.
The outside of the station with people sitting on benches and boards along the side of the taxi rank. Wrought iron decorative brackets form a comb holding up the glass roof sheltering the pavement and golden low sunlight shine on the stone arches below.
Row of pastel coloured terrace houses strong along the raised horizon above roads with a man walking and a taxi in front
Hello, beautiful Bristol.
I’d stick to calling them safer streets - and avoid the idea it is about a big fancy “scheme” or neighbourhood as far as possible.
Calling LTNs Active Neighbourhoods is a mistake in my view and made them more divisive in my experience. Many people now think they are called Active Travel Neighbourhoods (even more jargon!) and feel the schemes are excluding anyone who doesn’t see themselves as doing “active travel“.
Great stuff and loads to learn from. Esp not offering to fix congestion!
Not sure on “traffic” though. That seems so commonly understood as motor traffic (universally hated and wanted less of) it isn’t worth trying to make it mean walking/cycling.
I think it’s often pretty easy. Many commercial vehicles have them already.
The auto industry doesn’t seem to want them though, so the problem is how to get govt to act in the public interest rather than according to their lobbying?
And effectively abolish speed limit enforcement above this speed.
Instead mandate simple speed limiters on all vehicles - new or at next MOT.
Fair point. 50mph was what was used in the 1973 oil crisis for several months.
I’d push further for 40 as a longer term thing as it would be dramatically better particularly for safety on single carriageway roads and reducing noise.
Night sky above a With Ferris wheel (with no passenger cars hanging from it). The deep blue sky has a swirl of moving starts circling above the circle of the wheel
Great Yarmouth
Oil crisis?
What about enabling essential (and optional) vehicle travel while limiting both cost and consumption:
✨40mph max national speed limit.
(Also large benefits for air pollution, noise, climate, safety)
I keep hearing this phrase “evil empire”.
Surely it means USA, Israel and allies?
“It is the honour of our lives to stand with Palestine”
A bollard lying prone on the mud some way from a zebra crossing with broken tarmac where it appears to have been smashed out from
Walking my kids to Lidl today and passed this fallen soldier. Thank you for your service 🫡
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Institutions who declared climate emergencies a few years ago might need to review their response, given the crisis is speeding up.
Regular people’s assemblies might be a good start.
www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
Ad for online gambling to “win cash, free spins and golden chips” with a logo of a green leaf and tag “carbon neutral ad”
Fresh hell: Carbon-Neutral Ads
This is dystopian for anything, but in this case it’s for Bet365.
The scheme boasts clients can:
“offset the carbon footprint of their in-feed advertising campaigns by investing in green initiatives across the world”
“We’re committed to continuing our evidence-based self-defence training for kids mixing with lions. It shows provable reductions in the rates of children being eaten compared to non-lion-trained kids.”
My bus in Norwich just had a ticket check by a private security guard working for FirstBus who displayed two Thin Blue Line badges on his black uniform.
My man, you’re not even a cop — why cosplay as a fascist?
Pedestrian and cycle only sign with camera enforcement and a buff over street behind with people waking around. White man with glasses and grey hat smiling alone
I’m in Norwich city centre and I’ve got some bad news about Dixons
“GENERATED WITH AI”
Imagine if our government wasn’t trying to appease and accelerate AI profit but wanted to protect the public?
How about if AI companies were required to embed prominent labels on any generated material, especially images or video?
Like tobacco.
Local children to be given important Lion Safety lessons to teach them to be safe in all their encounters with lions. 💪
Remember: lion safety is a shared responsibility!
The word fools should be used a lot more
People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.
People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.
People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.
People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.
Introduced in 2018 and expanded to all roads by 2020, Bilbao was the first European city of more than 300,000 inhabitants to adopt a universal 30 km/h speed limit. Several years on, the results suggest it has delivered broad benefits on safety, public health, travel efficiency, and quality of life.🧵
"MUSLIM VOTER FRAUD IN GORTON & DENTON 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨"
Pitch perfect by Guz Khan @guzkhan.bsky.social
🔗 via IG instagram.com/p/DVQ3DK7DHgZ
“I might have written 18 books over the past four decades, but it’s really all just one book on fairness, justice and equity,” @drrobertbullard.bsky.social, the father of environmental justice.
His nature.com interview ends the Changemakers Q&A series, started by @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social.
A great-looking school street 🤩
Site galley in red brick with sign in lights on the roof saying everything is different today
A beautiful morning and appropriate place to journey to the future with
@robintransition.bsky.social ✨🚀
“The future must enter into you a long time before it happens” Rilke
Apologies to all of Hannah's customers!
Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️
NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Nobody Wants to Live Next to a Highway
Op-Ed by Anna Zivarts (@nondriver.bsky.social), via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/25/o...
Chart of Sheffield carbon emissions 2019 - Climate emergency declared Actual emissions (est) Amount over-budget - CO, which will heat our atmosphere for centuries Sheffield's 1.7C budget Advice sought by SCC but not applied in city plans Sheffield's 1.5C budget To minimise tipping point risks Sheffield's political target Net zero by 2030 GOV.UK local authority data for Sheffield CO2 emissions Estimated from GOV.UK emissions data and forecasts Tyndall Centre advised annual reductions of 12.3% from 2020 to meet IPC's 50% chance of 1.7C, (shown adjusted to start from updated UK Gov local authority data for 2019) Global carbon budget for 66% chance of 1.5C was roughly half this, needing 25% annual reductions
Sheffield climate emergency: How it’s going.
The carbon budget overspend is growing each year.
We have no plans to meet our targets.
Welcome to the greenwash city. 🌱
