Transport geek. Better streets and citizen participation advocate. Founder @lab_mobility. @NewsFTC Councillor (East ward).
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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The craziest thing about transport planning is how whole cities have been designed and ripped apart based on the need of people in cars, for few hours of the day, where less than 20% of all the trips people make take place.
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Oh my word this. If anyone says that they are only thinking of disabled people in making their views, ask how many of them they have asked what they want.
Then watch them fall silent.
If you want to know how the vulnerable feel about something, fucking ask them.
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Finally cracked Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity today. Far from the best Zelda game, but still bloody good fun. And it makes you appreciate the back story to Breath of the Wild much more. Despite that time travelling thing...
People in my area spent most of the afternoon having socially distanced snowball fights, sledging, and generally fooling around in the snow.
I know we must obey the rules, but you know what, I don't blame any of them for a second. Have some joy FFS.
Your casual reminder that this country has not been able to grow enough food to feed it's people since about 1910. And our most important battle of WWII wasn't fought by Spitfires, but by the Royal Navy in the North Atlantic.
If we didn't fight that, we would have starved.
Filled up the car with petrol today, 4 months from the last time I did it. I've filled it up 3 times since last March, and one time was because I had to go to Southampton to pick up a laptop.
At least the pandemic has cratered my fuel bill and travel CO2 emissions.
I hate to say it, but I kind of agree.
It's not a vision. It's not an approach to land use planning. And most transport elements can be summarised as good urban design.
It's more a guiding principle.
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But the worst thing about it is how, like any idea that has sense, it gets taken on by people who:
(a) Just want to rebrand good urban and street design, or
(b) Have a product to sell and to sound cool to millennials.
I've seen 1, 2, 5, and 10 minute cities posed. Come on.
You know you've been around a long time when half of the things mentioned here came around at least a decade after you first logged on. 😂
The fact that the Western section of the Oxford to Cambridge railway had got some funding is good. But no electrification? Really? All to save a few quid on the build cost?
Come on @grantshapps. It's a great railway. Make it better than that. bbc.co.uk/news/business-5577…
One of the best bits of writing on the StreetSpace judgement. Reasoned and sensible, and hopefully a wake-up call to engage with people better.
Rules don't just go away because we are in the middle of a pandemic.
I've been mulling over the judicial review on Streetspace. In brief, Taxis have a special status in law, Mayor needs to sort his decision making processes, disabled groups must be heard early in the process and Streetspace needs improving not removing.
caroline-russell.london/stre…
This is a bloody good report. And I urge everyone on both sides to read it and take in its lessons. Not to use it to favour your own agenda.
Otherwise, the truly vulnerable will get let down again.
It’s here. Our ground-breaking #PaveTheWay report on the impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods on disabled people and the barriers to Active Travel is now live.
Read the full report and access alternative formats on our new, relaunched website: transportforall.org.uk/campa…
ALT Pave The Way. The impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) on disabled people, and the future of accessible Active Travel. Report, January 2021. Transport for All. White text on pale purple background, with central illustration of a disabled man in a wheelchair with a ventillator rolling through a Low Traffic Neighbourhood, and a visually impaired man walking with a long cane in the background.
Translation: oh shit, people are now beginning to see through the bollocks I've spouted all these years. Better do something that seems important but is ultimately meaningless.