@VoleOSpeed

I tweet here mostly on cycling matters, occasionally astronomy or music

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voleospeed.blogspot.com
Joined June 2011
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David Arditti retweeted
Will Norman@willnorman20 Dec 2023
Big thank you to the teams out building the new sections for Cycleway 9 to Brentford in West London. 🚲🚲🚲 @LBofHounslow @TfL
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Last chance: Support walking and cycling improvements between #Wembley and #Harlesden on a road which has seen over 90 collisions since 2018. This consultation closes on Thursday 21 December, so tell TfL you support the scheme today! haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/wembl…
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Whereas all the Brent and Harrow LTNs were removed. Such a strong inner/outer London discontinuity of policy – and it doesn't correspond to political parties.
Will Norman@willnorman4 Dec 2023
All seven of the @IslingtonBC low traffic neighbourhoods have been made permanent with further enhancements and more to come. 💚
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David Arditti retweeted
Will Norman@willnorman4 Dec 2023
New East London cross-river walking & cycling ferry planned for Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf with @thamesclippers. 💚New RORO electric boat - with capacity for 100🚲/♿️& 150🚶‍♀️ 💚New accessible pier - that will sit alongside the hotel. thamesclippers.com/about-us/…
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Who should we prioritise on our streets? The school run before the Streatham Wells LTN // The school run after the Streatham Wells LTN. We know which we prefer ❤️ It's still very early days, but already children are able to travel through our neighbourhood more safely
An adult and two children wait at a crossing point while a van and a large car take up the road

ALT An adult and two children wait at a crossing point while a van and a large car take up the road

A child is cycling on a clear street with no visible danger

ALT A child is cycling on a clear street with no visible danger

A child is trying to cycle on a street but there is no space as cars take up the road

ALT A child is trying to cycle on a street but there is no space as cars take up the road

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Here is a new recording of some of my Preludes for piano by virtuoso pianist Neil Crossland. (If you like classical music, especially piano, feel free to subscribe to my YouTube.) youtu.be/bfrIAC4hWWQ

David Arditti – Preludes Op. 52 Nos. 3-6

Performed by Neil Crossland in concert at the Pimlott Foundation, C...

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David Arditti retweeted
Will Norman@willnorman1 Dec 2023
London's network of Cycleways continues to grow. Great seeing construction progressing on York Way between Kings Cross & Camden Rd. This introduces new raised stepped cycle tracks in both directions as well as other improvements. @tfl @IslingtonBC @CamdenCouncil
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I’m spending very little time on X now. I wonder where other people who followed my tweets have gone primarily – is it to Dorsey’s new one, or the one named after an extinct mammal, or the Zuckerberg one?
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PCPs are another sub-prime mortgage crisis in the making – a legal pyramid scheme.
Will Norman@willnorman22 Nov 2023
Ever wonder how so many people can afford so many big expensive cars? Personal Contract Purchases - 90% of all new car purchases in UK now use PCPs Smells like a potential financial crisis in the making. theguardian.com/environment/…

Britain's addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards | Tom Haines-Doran

Saving the industry means saddling consumers with ever more debt. The fumes of 2007 are in the air, says political economist Tom Haines-Doran

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A series of community co-design workshops planned this month, with the first one tomorrow, to improve transport around #ChurchEnd and #Roundwood. #GreenCorridors eventbrite.co.uk/e/church-en…?

Church End and Roundwood Green Corridors Design Consultation Workshop

Have your say in helping Brent Council and Sustrans develop green corridors in Church End and Roundwood.

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I see that Tweetdeck has been replaced. Now called XPro, costs £100/year. No thanks Elon. I used this a lot to keep up with various society accounts I run. I am now essentially leaving Twitter/X. I have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and YouTube; see some of you there.
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So - what are Westminster Council's plans for #OxfordStreet? 👀 Will they transform walking, wheeling & cycling on the 'nation's high street'? You've got until 31 August to have your say. Here are our thoughts... 🧵& blog 1/ lcc.org.uk/news/oxford-stree…

Oxford Street - what about cycling? - London Cycling Campaign

Tell Westminster its £60m Oxford Street scheme risks making it even worse for cycling

lcc.org.uk
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This is a studio recording of my Romance for Violin and Cello (Op. 15) – an old work (1997) that I revised for a concert in last year's year's Harrow Summer Music Festival. I've made it into a video using still photos taken at the recording studio. youtu.be/AonXWRAEo0M

David Arditti – Romance

Romance for violin and piano by David Arditti (Op.15), played by Ma...

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A friend is not too happy being offered £2K to upgrade his diesel car. Says he would prefer to use the cash towards a new cycle and scrap the car. But hey ho, you can’t turn down that much free money! – at Poplar, London
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CPZs in my experience are the first step in converting a car-sodden urban area into one on the journey to predominantly greener and more active travel modes. After CPZs usually come lower speed limits, then bike lanes & tracks, then ped improvements, pedestrianisations and LTNs.
Jon Stone@joncstone5 Aug 2023
kind of getting into CPZs (controlled parking zones). these before and after pics from Southwark are pretty striking southwark.gov.uk/parking/par…
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Local authorities (like Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Barnet, to name some I know) that refuse to control parking on all of their streets have not yet taken the first step towards creating an active travel environment, and nothing much can be expected of them.
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An update on this, as someone just re-tweeted this post from 2017: despite good progress elsewhere in the borough (e.g. Haverstock Hill), the Delancey-Pratt link is still missing, and trying to connect from CW6 to the Primrose Hill LCN route is still nasty, or very indirect.
David Arditti@VoleOSpeed21 Nov 2017
Camden Council has again taken no decision on the Delancey-Pratt cycle link, because of a group of local objectors. Safe cycling on our streets should be a basic right, not something that can be blocked by groups of NIMBYS for reasons of their own prejudice or even convenience.
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This is a video of one of my contributions to a London Composers Forum concert held at the 1901 Arts Club earlier this year, where I performed a sub-cycle of six of my Preludes. It is a very nice venue with a nice piano.youtu.be/ng241OcFFT0
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Watch our fascinating one hour discussion, led by John Dante Prevedini, with contributions from @HalidaDinova @sean_neukom @VoleOSpeed Andrew Arceci, Ryan Ash, Adrian Rumson, Stephen Francis Vasta, #ClassicalMusic #newsletter #discussion #video @BeoSQ @Heresy_Records @hemsingpr

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Politicians keen to delay #climate action claim we’re “on the road to net zero by 2050”. Here’s what that road looks like. (via @brigidrithilly)
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