“Boss, where should we leave the signs when we’re not using them?” “Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do” @bearswayfriends.bsky.social
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“Boss, where should we leave the signs when we’re not using them?” “Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do” @bearswayfriends.bsky.social
I gave up eating meat about 8 years ago. Coming out of lockdown was so weird, I’d spent 2-3 years without seeing anyone eat so much as a bacon sandwich. Proper “what on earth are you doing?” reaction
“Unavoidable tragedy, road design not a factor, speed not a factor”
Bike lanes are car infrastructure
If Police Scotland actually dealt with these reports properly that is…
All the people who call cyclists and people who film and report phone-using drivers grasses should feel very ashamed about now. Reporting this dangerous law-breaking will literally save lives.
www.researchgate.net/figure/Noise... EV better than ICE, but much worse than non-car alternatives like public & active travel.
I’ve always thought the big omission from this is noise. Which again, EVs don’t solve. Or at least above 20mph they don’t.
My brother and his wife can put you up in Inverness. DM for address if you’re stuck!
Made it to the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome with child 1 today for the first time. Incredible venue. Hitting those steep corners for the first time is scary but so much fun.
I’ve attached my go-pro by cable-tying the selfie stick to my frame.
That and some kind of awareness/reaction test added on the side. Most drivers that put me at risk when I’m cycling are using their phones at the wheel, but very elderly drivers are a close second.
Irresponsible parenting. You shouldn’t be following him, you should set him loose for 5 days into the wilderness and let him fend for himself 😜
The food on that ferry is SO GOOD.
As a 6ft+ fit(ish) 30something man I take exception to this. I also find those vertical hangers awkward to use.
Fame at last!
Local campaign group Bearsden Safer Streets need our help. They are asking for local folk to contact their councillors to express support for piloting a 20mph limit across all streets in Bearsden - without exemptions. Please look here and help if you can. oursafestreets.substack.com/p/we-need-yo...
I had problems opening it on my laptop - may be to do with browser not letting windows open. Worked on my phone.
Does this work? pastebin.com/BJz3gZPj
Frustrating to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social calling this an accident. Being three times over the drink-drive limit and getting behind the wheel is not an accident, but a deliberate choice by Dosunmu.
Reminds me of the line from Arrested Development: “It's one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?”
Yes but… gas drives high power prices when renewables share of the grid is low. So until we have a cheap way to store electricity (and increase demand side flex), the marginal benefit (to wholesale prices) of adding more renewables reduces with each GW.
It’s not even that wealthy people stash it in offshore accounts, but that they use it to buy assets, which raises asset prices, creating more wealth inequality.
All those place names sounds like parodies that an American would invent if they were being over the top.
I really love this!
There’s an advertising law forcing their hand! urban-mobility-observatory.transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/....
One of my favourites was developed where I live, but never put into operation unfortunately (or fortunately…) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_...
I can’t argue with that. Like Homer Simpson, I have 3 kids and zero money, why can’t I have zero kids and 3 money?
I love it - so quiet! Got a chest infection at the moment so the hills were rough.
How do you take a cargo bike for a service and get home again? Put your bike in a bike!
We just wrote about this: oursafestreets.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
Loads of parents & kids cycling to West rugby club this morning, but still no safe routes.
Owner lives round the corner from me. Genuinely curious as to why anyone would want to own that. Figure it is compensating for something, or just being a total child?
Finally, a “common-sense” Pope
Clearly taking queues from Christianity - lamb of god, eat my flesh etc.
Depends on how you define efficient. Elon’s tunnels are far more efficient at delaying Las Vegas public officials from building proper public transit (like a subway)…
I agree, we should just be doing far less of some things, like flying.
I tend to throw “sustainable aviation” into the same bucket at “direct air carbon capture” - an unproven (at scale) tech that is never going to work financially, apart from as a distraction to allow polluters to keep polluting.
Tech bros reinventing trams/trains again… Adam Something has some good YouTube videos on the topic
If you make it to Scotland, the Daydreams Bookshop in Milngavie has recently opened and is a lovely space for events.
I’ll admit to breaking a road rule today. Light turned red ahead of me. I could have stopped, but didn’t. Car behind me flew through, so if I had stopped, I’d be flattened. 20+ years of sharing the road with cars and my spidey-senses are finely honed.
I just had the same email. Not sure why they’d do that!
Yep. I bought when I knew he was a bit of a bam but before he was a total bam.
At the moment, we’re on Intelligent, so cheap overnight, and a flat day rate. I could load shift to avoid peak use but there is no incentive (apart from occasional saving sessions). Not a problem in the summer so much!
I’d like to see @octopus.energy offer a tariff for EV & solar/home battery owners that works in the winter better. Lack of sunlight means our battery usually runs out just in time for afternoon peak. A second cheap window at 2-4ish (with higher £ peak) would see us through.
3.3MWh this year vs 3.7MWh last year for us.
Please support the campaign for Presumed Liability. Presumed liability shifts the burden of proof to the insurance company in a collision, and is intended to compensate vulnerable road users more quickly and effectively petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... @carltonreid.com
Should the last sentence be “without the complexities of nuclear”?
Yes I’ve done that a few times too when it’s quiet.
Wait for the cycle light then go diagonally across? I have waited a long time before with the cycle light not going green, maybe that was a teething issue.
Because of physics and economics.
He’s just disappointed at how far-centric so many cities ended up 😂
Seems to be a recurring theme. I still don’t know how to cycle north on Garscube Rd past the Garscube link/Firhill Rd junction, even when I get a green bike light.
This was me picking up our cargo bike 4 years ago and cycling it 50km home. 12,000km ago!
I could never be bothered going to the gym, but I have to take my kids to school (I know, woke!) and go to get groceries. Doing these by bike or walking and I don’t even notice that 150 minutes stacking up.
Never in doubt
Have a great one!
Can we all become volunteer environmental officers?
Most often seen in council vehicles, or commercial, followed closely by parents outside the nursery/school gates.
I’ve been trying to get some action on idling cars. At the moment, an environmental officer needs to witness it happening, and ask the driver to stop. If they don’t stop, then they can get a £20 fine. Hardly a deterrent.
"Do we not want to protect and encourage active travel in Scotland? Do we not need a justice system that helps achieve that? Do we not recognise how incidents like this can cause serious injury or death?" road.cc/311763
I find my shoulders drop when I get onto safe cycle routes. Cycling on roads I’m on edge, even though (or because?) I’ve been mixing with cars and buses for the best part of 3 decades!
It’s the sunk cost fallacy in Glasgow - keep throwing good money after bad on an inner-city motorway that should never have been cut through.
@kennymunro.bsky.social good to find you here. I’m reopening the defunct rat-run access road on Bearsway (Alexander Grove) with the council. Can copy you in some emails if you’ve got the energy.
I’ve not seen that one yet… I know I shouldn’t look.
Council officers were actually great at making the case. I made quite an impassioned plea for something that may have been a foregone conclusion! Will try to post something on safer streets Bearsden substack later.
@magnatom.bsky.social I joined a call this morning to show and state support for A807 redetermination and speed limit reduction. Was outnumbered by objectors stating the same old nonsense, but not outgunned and thankfully it’s still all going ahead. Was mention of “cyclists with helmet cameras”
Can I get mine signed by @jackbern.bsky.social too?
More path clearing cardio today on the school run. Amazing what 10 minutes here and there can achieve!
A very satisfying 14 minutes spent this morning. Needs some willow spiling to finish it properly.
The thing that gets me about Mozart is not just that he wrote some of the best music ever, but that he didn’t write any bad pieces.
I felt furious at the time (and nervous on my bike), and now even more furious at the total lack of action.
No no Katie, just a succession of one-off slip ups. Again, and again, and again.
Precipitation update please.
Hello lovely new Bluesky people. If you missed it, here's a recent video where GCN came over to Swansea to talk all about our motonormativity work youtu.be/-_4GZnGl55c?...
Not visible - pond with LOADS of frogs 🐸
It did you do it in their shoes, so you appreciate them?
It made me at least take X off my phone homepage and replace with this!
I’d like to see most roads closed to private motor traffic, with each road needing to go through numerous studies & consultations before being reopened. A bit like when we try and get a new bike lane, or speed bump, or reduced limit. Switch the status quo!
Committee appearance in House of Commons today. Stood under a very unsettling portrait of the Iron Lady…
I’m not bitter, was just getting inundated by bots and nonsense on the other place. I have made bitters.
