The Government should drastically cut tax on alcohol in pubs and restaurants and pay for it by hiking taxes on alcohol for off sales. Social drinking is more of a social good than private drinking.
NYC has created an official reporting app for engine idling, it works well.
If the UK was serious about engine idling, and illegal parking, HMG would develop a similar app.
There are plenty of concerned citizens who would use it.
apps.apple.com/us/app/idle-...
Yeah, that's what I assumed.
It's all too easy to imagine the planners' sketch with some blurb about the seamless integration of historic buildings with the city of the future.
My mistake - its a recent photo. Luckily all cars non-polluting now 😀
Your clothes would be nicely pre-leaded. You can smell the exhaust fume just by looking at the picture.
Thanks. Its what I want for sure!
In the UK, if you accumulate 12 points in 4 years you get banned from driving.
A red light or speeding ticket is 3 points minimum.
The size of the fine doesn't really matter if you are going to lose your license after 4 tickets.
ooh, can you tell about your headset mount?
Some letters in the front of a cargo bike
About 5 streets away from my house the postman waved me down as I was cycling past to give me my post.
1. He's great
2. This makes me feel like I live in a real community
3. This would never have happened if I was in a car
The offences are "parked in a dangerous position - Section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1988"
or
"Wilful obstruction of the highway - section 137 Hiways act 1980"
Both are enforceable by police.
This is an excellent guide next time you talk to the police.
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This is why I write so much about pavement parking
Oh wow, a video that ticks so many geeky boxes for me
That's great, thanks.
Looks like exactly what I've been looking for.
Hi, whats the bag called please? Does it come with a kit to mount it on the box?
Seems that the biggest kerb available still wasn't enough. Maybe go for the next level up?
Great graphic showing cities on a triangle graph showing if they are most oriented to public transit, active mobility or cars.
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Norwich/Norfolk. Never planned any, never delivered any.
🧵 MPs are learning how it feels to be a Gorton & Denton resident today.
To raise awareness of our recommendations for the Elections Bill we've sent a fake newspaper, The Misleading Times, packed full of dodgy bar charts and made up data to their desks in Westminster.
You can’t park there mate..🙄
When I said packed, what I really meant a spare pair of shorts and a t-shirt and not much else.
I got cold.
I can beat that. I once packed for a week of cycle touring on the basis of the beautiful sunny weather on the morning I left...
...in April...
...to the Netherlands.
How long should it take to cross a junction?
In suburban London it can take a while, like crossing the junction of Christchurch Road and Merantum Way to walk between two neighbouring shopping centres. Is it acceptable to let pedestrians wait this long?
@londonls.bsky.social
@willnorman.co.uk
Last month, there was a story about the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Paul Bristow, wanting to spend £1.5m on free car parking in Peterborough City Centre.
1/16
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And there's your side road zebras being possible in Wales from 11th March this year.
www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...
“I had to go in and face my colleagues who were saying, ‘Mike, what have you done?’”
A glimpse inside Haringey's street space transformation, featuring @mikehakata.bsky.social and @carlafrancome.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/lauralak...
Weirdly Norfolk County Council are really good at issuing notices and cutting back hedges like this.
Absolutely nothing else mind you.
Best part of the world
