Mostly interested in cycling policy and activism. Also: environment, nature/animals, tech, politics.
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Virgin media broadband unsubscribe journey is psychopathic. They won't accept no as an answer. I must escape this josef-fritzl style business approach
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Getting your ID checked and analysed by some rando working at a polling station is grim. Voting used to be a pleasure and it's untrusting and tense now.
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Goodbye pavements, you had a good run.
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In theory, A pavement
- Is not for any vehicle
In practice, A pavement:
- May be driven over
- May be parked on
- May be corrupted to make driving over it easier (at expense of flat surface for pedestrians/wheelchairs/prams)
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Have a guess as to whether this policy benefits the poorest or richest in our society.
From tomorrow, tax will be slashed on flights within the UK, a move that will help boost UK-wide connectivity.
#AirPassengerDuty #Aviation
ALT Tax cuts on domestic flights. We're introducing a lower tax band for passenger flights within the UK.
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The case for active travel over vehicle electrification
All good and well saying go green. But when an electric vehicle uses between 10 and 40kg of cobalt for batteries mainly mined in the Congo by exploited people and children on a dollar a day. It’s said to be good to us. But it’s an absolute horror movie. Not a fair exchange.
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A tweet. In which, former leader of York council uses the deaths of cyclists on shared paths to justify inaccessible barriers that prevent many cyclists using said shared paths. Unbelievable.
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@DHLParcelUK Hi I've been given an account number to send a parcel within the UK...how do I go about it please?
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It's really depressing that these A-frames are still a thing. This is hob moor. @Kallum_Of_York @rachel_melly_ @AndyDAgorne Really need to be able to ride through these to have enough momentum to clear the cattle grid
This whole article could be replaced with a Yorkshireman saying "oww much?". That's the level of analysis and thought that went into it.
Wait until Adrian Chiles finds out how much a car costs...😱
The point is that cargo bikes have the potential to be car replacements for people in cities, and that's how we need to view them - not a 'luxury' item.
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"Please move home, out of the city" says Enfield Conservatives to children and parents that want it to be safer to cycle to school.
Anybody with a shred of decency abandoned the party years ago.
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This is about the size of vehicle its safe for self-driving systems to be in control of.
I think I like them?
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This article on a baronet blocking walking and cycling routes between rural towns is a great example of how wealth and privilege contribute to car dependency and hamper active travel uptake theguardian.com/environment/…
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