Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities
09.03.2026 13:15
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Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities
Germany Green Party look like winning the Baden-Wurttemberg state election tonight, a huge turnaround after being behind in the polls for months 🇩🇪💚🗳️ @gruene.de
Montage of Hannah Dadds (L) climbing up into a District Line R Stock cab, and Karen Harrison (R) in her British Rail uniform, with the IWD logo
Happy International Women's Day 2026 to all of the amazing women in the transport industry and beyond! Here's two trailblazers: Hannah Dadds the first woman Underground driver (1978) and Karen Harrison her British Rail counterpart ('Traction Trainee' from 1979) #IWD2026 LT Museum Collection
“Men of Steel drive cars made of cardboard”. #Berlin
Unfortunately we still live a world where parking, shopping and flying take greater priority.
#woke #wokeness
Fantastic, the Tories’ top fact-based transport analysts.
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Anyhow, congestion charging has proven to be very effective elsewhere and should be considered again in Edinburgh.
Tory MSP 'could' be making things up to get re-elected.
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By no means as efficient and reliable as battery.
Electric (not-hydrogen) bus travels from Copenhagen to Berlin without stopping. It can be done.
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The downgrading of modern language teaching is Scotland is short-sighted culturally as well as economically. As a graduate in German and Russian from a Scottish university, I'm in a good place to know.
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BREAKING — The UK is joining in with the US/Israeli/French campaign against independent UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
In response to a question from arch Israel lobbyist Luke Akehurst, it says it wants her comments on Israel to be “urgently investigated”.
the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz
I can already hear the frothing rage this will cause, but it makes complete sense.
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Screenshot of The Byline Times Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war Stuart Spray 3 March 2026
🚨 Ukraine has seen vulnerable habitats consumed by wildfires, plants & animals pushed to the brink of extinction, widespread soil & water contamination & an estimated 237m tonnes of conflict-related CO₂ emissions.
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How 'envy-of-the-world' Britain does high speed rail.
"Politicians must stop prioritising 'socially and ecologically destructive growth' that only increases the profits – and serves the consumption demands – of the world’s richest individuals and corporations."
I expect Starmer would call him an extremist.
Why vote Green when you could vote LibDem?
Can't recommend anything is particular, but there's a great deal of material out there, though much of it relating to North America and not at all of it easy to digest.
It really is time that cities such as #Edinburgh started looking at this and soon.
Never mind congestion charging, the cheapest, most effective means of curbing car traffic and improving the quality of towns and cities is to remove parking.
Image of busy urban Street with shops and people walking. Text says “Wait, we’re afraid of walkable distances now?“ via Urban Truth Collective.
“Wait, we’re afraid of walkable distances now?”*
*best response ever to the manufactured conspiracy theories about “15-Minute Cities” and the simple idea of having more things we need nearby. #UrbanTruth
At 9.3 kilometres (5.8 miles) my cycle trip to work this morning was longer than most UK car trips. It took me 26 minutes.
(It would have been 23 minutes if I hadn't spent so long waiting at a crossing because people driving within the city are given priority over people who aren't driving)
Always better to re-use than demolish buildings, even hideous ones, given the huge amounts of imbedded carbon involved. If #Edinburgh really didn't want ugly buildings, it would stop giving them planning permission.
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The blatant Islamophobia that Keir Starmer is demonstrating through smearing Mothin Ali would be shocking - but it's becoming a pattern.
Smearing a caring man of principle for standing up for peace.
The German chancellor is in Washington meeting Trump, a man who sees Europe as irrelevant, who supports Merz’s opponents and who is political poison. What can he hope to gain?
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Just imagine if that same approach were taken across Scotland and the UK.
'For the next term of office, our vision for [Lyon Public Transport] is simple: a more reliable, higher-capacity, more accessible network that better connects all parts of the metropolitan area, and a fare policy that continues to protect households and give young people independence'.
