@cargobikeben
Utility cycling & active travel advocate. Passionate about ending car dependency (not banning cars), reducing urban sprawl + how bikes are the easiest and most cost effective way to achieve that. Former journalist turned software developer. r/fuckcars mod
This need to be called out at perpetuating sexist policies that privilege bikers without child carrying, errand running responsibilities. Caltrain would never consider banning kids from trains, why is it ok to make it impossible for parents who travel bike to use the system?
Our economy is bleeding jobs. Prices are up, especially for gas. Yet the White House prioritizes tax cuts for billionaires, while launching a reckless new Middle East war.
It doesn't have to stay this way - not if the American people make our voices heard.
I'm no expert, but surely it's cheaper to hit the bunker with missiles, rather than the jets themselves?
The amount of times as a software engineering manager I've had to explain to junior and middleweight (and hell, some senior) devs "you're not paid to code; you're paid to solve problems" is something that even Claude can't answer. 😂
I see Soccer Dome are at it again opposing the Birkenhead Road cycle path upgrades (a key route between Seacombe Ferry, Wirral Waters, New Brighton etc) because it would remove the free on street parking they leach off. Well this time we're prepared for the fight.
Oh 100%. 🤜🤛
It’s just a pet peeve that winds me up 🙂
The constraint on output isn’t really labour or materials. It’s the low-density development model that these parasitic companies rely on.
And critically, denser developments also don't add huge ongoing liabilities on to council and utility company's maintenance budgets.
If you shift from building single-family homes that financially strangle buyers thanks to high purchase and transportation costs to denser, more efficient housing, you can easily triple or quadruple the number of homes produced per site, while also improving affordability without impacting margins.
When a company like Taylor Wimpey says it can build ~11,000 homes a year, that number is constrained less by labour or materials and more by their business model. That's because it relies on large green field sites and phased releases to keep prices propped up.
Perhaps the issue is they need to stop building car dependent hellscapes on the edges of towns and cities like this and instead start building car-free and car-light dense mixed use developments in the centre of towns and cities instead if they're so concerned about first time (and other) buyers.
Yup. And no. Public doesn’t mean it’s a free for all.
"But they're parking in my part of the road".
Nope. It's nobody's part of the road. It's the councils' and the only duty they have to ensure the ability to pass and repass. In fact, for many councils, they are already in breach of that by allowing on-street parking.
This problem is only become more pressing if the government doesn't act quickly to make it clear that if you want to buy an EV and charge it at home, you MUST have off-road parking. Lamp post charging points on quieter roads is a partial solution, but we can all see what will happen if they don't.
We should be like Japan where on-street parking is prohibited on urban and city roads. If you don't have a place to park you car on private property, you can't own a car.
Classic "I bought more things than I can store on my property" problem. The solution – as always – is sell the second car.
These are the psychopaths the British right think Keir Starmer should be slavishly following.
If you genuinely believe we should be committing British soldiers and taxpayers to people who think flattening schools full of innocent children is a joke, you’re no British ‘patriot’.
The Dutch supercharged their move away from car dependency to a network built on resilience?
Australian traffic safety agency redesigns the human body to withstand car crashes www.meetgraham.com.au/view-graham www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgnk... #VisionZero #cycling
"This is what the jackboots actually look like, people. We have seen the enemy, and it's right here at home."
This was a meeting about a mild transportation project to decrease speeding, improve lighting, and make an accessible barrier protected trail.
Or a totalitarian invasion? Hard to know.
NYC is drowning in parking. Millions of cars stacked on both sides of every single street, yet we we still have council members and the DOT actively trying to cram in even more. Unbelievable stuff.
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
If you've got nothing else going on in life, become a safe streets advocate. You gain community and positive support from a global crowd no matter where you go, your people will be there.
The irony being, US citizens are one of the very few who continue having to pay the US government taxes – especially as Gulf nations don't charge income tax and so there is no offset available.
Obscure health benefit: Biking puts me in daily community with the actual fit people who walk/bike/run every day. Like meeting up with regulars at the gym but I'm just trying to get my kids to school. It's good for me
If I can unscrew a bolt with my fingers - I’m not locking my bike up to it! Hello, nearby steel railing! 😏 #yycbike #trinityhills
Or have never spoken to an insurer before.
Hegseth: "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible."
- Middle East engulfed in regional war
- 11 countries attacked by Iran
- Oil & gas prices skyrocketing
- Strait of Hormuz now a conflict zone
- Terrorism threat raised across the world
- No sign of Iran regime collapse
Not to mention it'll cause councils a huge number of headaches when someone else parks in 'their' spot.
The council would be far better telling them to buy a house with a driveway if they want an EV.
This just looks like a poorly implemented bad idea to me. Don't they just fill up with crap? And aren't they likely to be unusable in some icy/snowy weather?
One or two folk riding bikes over Blackfriars Bridge on London's cycleway #C6 #CS6 this morning.
More 'vehicles' use the narrow C6 cycle track on the left than on the motorised vehicle lanes on the right.
