Many comments/responses predictably take a vindictive “well you’re not getting a congestion charge out of me. I’ll just take public transport! Ha! That’ll teach you!” approach.
Same often happens with parking cost increases. “It’ll put people off driving!”.
They seem oblivious that’s the point.
Understood Tom. I hope it goes as well as possible.
Take it steady and best for the future.
Good question: 'fraid I don't know. I wrote this rdrf.org.uk/2009/11/13/l... in 2009 . I would guess in the late 90s.
Hendy was terrible when he was in charge at TfL.
Not all of them.
Note exceptions such as esteemed www.rdrf.org.uk President @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
I hate to repeat myself, but for me the real issue in this case, as in many others like it, is:
Not the length of sentence (in fact it's unusually high for this sort of offence as far as I can tell) but the short length of the driving ban.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HT @gazza-d.bsky.social
It's a combination of stupidity, unwillingness to think things through and above all the legacy of a century of non-evidence based, victim blaming red herrings created by the "road safety" industry.
The two men started talking and Campbell could slip away.
Source is Wikipedia.
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demanding he stop.
Tyson asked him: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the Heavyweight Champion of the World".
To which Ayer replied:
"And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men".
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When times are tough, as they are, I comfort myself with a (true) story like this:
Sir Alfred Ayer, the renowned philosopher, while attending a party in 1987 held by fashion designer Fernando Sanchez, confronted Mike Tyson, who was harassing the then little known model Naomi Campbell...
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Yes. Ireland is looking like going the way of US, NZ/Australia.
Tell them Ireland is in Europe and that politicians/engineers and bus drivers should take a trip to NL, Copenhagen, Paris...
For Facebook & NextDoor folk who think clowncils are ripping off drivers, road rules & cameras are just to fleece motorists, I present Lambeth's finances: www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/02/lamb...
London boroughs are underfunded & falling apart & you won't be fined if you don't do stupid stuff...
I decided to research on how official "road safety" ideology is part of the problem of road danger and got my Ph D based on this.
I wrote a book about it rdrf.org.uk/death-on-the....
The book came out in...1993.
The "road safety" victim blamers are still at it, but at least there's some resistance!
I decided to research on how official "road safety" ideology is part of the problem of road danger and got my Ph D based on this.
I wrote a book about it rdrf.org.uk/death-on-the....
The book came out in...1993.
The "road safety" victim blamers are still at it, but at least there's some resistance!
I decided to research on how official "road safety" ideology is part of the problem of road danger and got my Ph D based on this.
I wrote a book about it rdrf.org.uk/death-on-the....
The book came out in...1993.
The "road safety" victim blamers are still at it, but at least there's some resistance!
thanks
Any idea of the actual numbers?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Some top class journalism behind this story.
It turns it wasn't just "an Amazon driver relying on satnav just drives into the sea" although safety governance of gig-economy drivers and managers (inc. use of satnav) is an important part of the story.
Yes. Good quality journalism.
...and circulate
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Have to say I agree with @gazza-d.bsky.social here.
We need to defend ourselves from Russia and others, we also need to NOT build more roads for more cars/vans/HGVs.
Bimble on the bike today dodging the rain.
Where was I?
A blast from the past from The Hitch.
www.youtube.com/shorts/WAS9G...
Nowadays I think he would have mentioned how the ideology serves and is in turn supported by the kleptocratic oligarchs who are behind Putin.
@nickcohen.bsky.social @billbrowder.bsky.social
Photo of a teenage girl in front of an apartment building. She has a Dutch-style bicycle standing upright behind her. © Anne Frank Fonds, Basel
Margot Frank, the calm, clever older sister of famed diarist Anne Frank, shown here in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, 1939.
#BicycleBirthday Margot Frank
February 16 (1926-1945)
"Compliment".
Way off normal topics:
I feed blue tits ( c.10 litres nuts every 1/4). Parrakeets muscled in to take large amounts and shake the feeder so that lots of pigeons are attracted to nuts on the ground.
Rubber "snake" positioned: it seems to work: tits go for it, not the Parrakeets !
Take it steady and enjoy it!
If Hackney's LTNs ever got ripped out, the opposition groups bemoaning main road conditions would just disappear overnight. They offer no solutions to our traffic problems. Only one side of this debate genuinely cares about main roads. Follow them here 👇
Do check this site out for a guide to addressing motor traffic problems in urban areas. Of interest specifically to Londoners, but it applies elsewhere in the UK www.lowtraffichackney.org/hackneys-mai...
