@angeladevas.bsky.social
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Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
Back To The Future In East Oxford
I have been doing some work in Oxford, and on a recent visit, I had the chance to look at some historic traffic calming in East Oxford which...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
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Before / After Rue du Docteur Lecène, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Comparison done in February 2025 vs comparison done in October 2025, What a difference a few months make ;)
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Before / After Rue du Docteur Lecène, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Comparison done in February 2025 vs comparison done in October 2025, What a difference a few months make ;)
Fantastic work from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social . It's a shame the rivers of Arun, Cuckmere and Ouse are not included. All heavily degraded
4/ I wanted to uncover if this was true
Happily, many of the Landscape Recovery projects have begun to have web presences of their own. So I pieced together this map of their rough locations, together with 37 static maps of the projects + URLs, embedded in each pin:
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
Happily, many of the Landscape Recovery projects have begun to have web presences of their own. So I pieced together this map of their rough locations, together with 37 static maps of the projects + URLs, embedded in each pin:
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
Mapping Landscape Recovery projects - Google My Maps
Mapped by Guy Shrubsole, Dec 2025, https://whoownsengland.org/
www.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Fantastic work from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social . It's a shame the rivers of Arun, Cuckmere and Ouse are not included. All heavily degraded
Not enough info on public transport especially buses! 77 and 79 have limited service most months of the year. However other buses run. helpful to have detailed information. E.g. 22 bus you can walk to Lewes from Brighton. Post links to bus walks. @transportaction.bsky.social
This way or that way?🤔
Looking for walk ideas? You’ll find plenty of inspiration in our Walking Hub.
Take a look: southdowns.gov.uk/walking🌲
📸: Colin Mitchell
Looking for walk ideas? You’ll find plenty of inspiration in our Walking Hub.
Take a look: southdowns.gov.uk/walking🌲
📸: Colin Mitchell
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Not enough info on public transport especially buses! 77 and 79 have limited service most months of the year. However other buses run. helpful to have detailed information. E.g. 22 bus you can walk to Lewes from Brighton. Post links to bus walks. @transportaction.bsky.social
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In the 1st year of implementing a national 20mph urban/village default limit in Wales there were 630 fewer casualties. None may have been your son or daughter, but they all belonged to someone whose life has not now been devastated. #20splenty where people are. www.20splenty.org/wales_casual...
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In the 1st year of implementing a national 20mph urban/village default limit in Wales there were 630 fewer casualties. None may have been your son or daughter, but they all belonged to someone whose life has not now been devastated. #20splenty where people are. www.20splenty.org/wales_casual...
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#RealTime information displays just showing a company logo are completely useless for passengers. This sign in #Kemptown #Brighton hasn't worked for months, along with *many* others in the city. Wonder how long it'll be before @brighton-hove.gov.uk manages to fix them?
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#RealTime information displays just showing a company logo are completely useless for passengers. This sign in #Kemptown #Brighton hasn't worked for months, along with *many* others in the city. Wonder how long it'll be before @brighton-hove.gov.uk manages to fix them?
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🤔 Oh, this has me thinking.
2023 book, 'Traffication' covered theories of links between declines and car nos up 'til then in detail, noting often overshadowed by other causes (eg. farming practices) and how more studies needed..
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2023 book, 'Traffication' covered theories of links between declines and car nos up 'til then in detail, noting often overshadowed by other causes (eg. farming practices) and how more studies needed..
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>New Science Shows Even Modest Road Traffic Disrupts Key Icelandic Bird Habitats
Scientists report significant drops in breeding bird density close to roads, despite relatively low traffic volumes
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🤔 Oh, this has me thinking.
2023 book, 'Traffication' covered theories of links between declines and car nos up 'til then in detail, noting often overshadowed by other causes (eg. farming practices) and how more studies needed..
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2023 book, 'Traffication' covered theories of links between declines and car nos up 'til then in detail, noting often overshadowed by other causes (eg. farming practices) and how more studies needed..
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The best part is seeing what happens when you give children a joyful way to start their day. They show up energized, confident, and connected. This is what happens when streets feel welcoming and movement is part of the morning routine. #BikeBus
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The best part is seeing what happens when you give children a joyful way to start their day. They show up energized, confident, and connected. This is what happens when streets feel welcoming and movement is part of the morning routine. #BikeBus
No info on new bus routes or timetables? Bicycle parking? Cycle lanes? Remember over one third of Brighton and Hove do not have access to a car. @bhlabour.bsky.social @bricycles.org.uk @transportaction.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
No info on new bus routes or timetables? Bicycle parking? Cycle lanes? Remember over one third of Brighton and Hove do not have access to a car. @bhlabour.bsky.social @bricycles.org.uk @transportaction.bsky.social
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Before / After on the right bank of the Seine in Paris. A classic video I posted on Twitter a few years ago I had not posted here yet.
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Before / After on the right bank of the Seine in Paris. A classic video I posted on Twitter a few years ago I had not posted here yet.
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Bellamystraat, Amsterdam in 1977 and today
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bellamystraat, Amsterdam in 1977 and today
Also cycling and biking could be massively improved, at virtually no cost, by turning many rural lanes into green routes with a maximum speed of 15 mph. Lots of lanes duplicate other routes. @transportaction.bsky.social
That's a bit of a black and white opinion. Where I live public transport is almost non-existent, and an increased duty on fuel would be a huge burden in what is already a poor community. Do you have a solution to that?
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Also cycling and biking could be massively improved, at virtually no cost, by turning many rural lanes into green routes with a maximum speed of 15 mph. Lots of lanes duplicate other routes. @transportaction.bsky.social
Yes but sometimes this: two of us walked into a hotel in Alfriston, deep in rural Sussex. 'Terrible, no public transport here!' Said receptionist. We'd literally just alighted from the bus.
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
That's a bit of a black and white opinion. Where I live public transport is almost non-existent, and an increased duty on fuel would be a huge burden in what is already a poor community. Do you have a solution to that?
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yes but sometimes this: two of us walked into a hotel in Alfriston, deep in rural Sussex. 'Terrible, no public transport here!' Said receptionist. We'd literally just alighted from the bus.
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
I was at @bricycles.bsky.social AGM yesterday. We campaign for better cycle routes. Also there was representative from @livingstreets.bsky.social Katy Rodda.
Well done Iowa City .. this is what the world needs!
Not as in Brighton & Hove where its council @brighton-hove.gov.uk hiked the bus fares to double of last year in a city saturated with cars & where lung cancer is now one the main causes of death!
Not as in Brighton & Hove where its council @brighton-hove.gov.uk hiked the bus fares to double of last year in a city saturated with cars & where lung cancer is now one the main causes of death!
Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was at @bricycles.bsky.social AGM yesterday. We campaign for better cycle routes. Also there was representative from @livingstreets.bsky.social Katy Rodda.
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Saturday | 10:05 PT We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Saturday | 10:05 PT We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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We could change the design of our roads to address this crisis, like other cities are doing, but that might inconvenience car owners, so planners and politicians are choosing this option instead.
Families of road death victims in West Midlands safety campaign
Letters from families who lost their loved ones are on display for Road Safety Week.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We could change the design of our roads to address this crisis, like other cities are doing, but that might inconvenience car owners, so planners and politicians are choosing this option instead.
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So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
The God of car- normativity demans a sufficient number of child human sacrifices every month. 20 MPH was not delivering @transportaction.bsky.social @bettertransport.bsky.social . Apologies to Jonathan Swift
Physics and biomechanics don't care about your comprehensive review.
Speed limits could be returned to 30mph on 20 roads across a Welsh local authority following a 'comprehensive review'
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The God of car- normativity demans a sufficient number of child human sacrifices every month. 20 MPH was not delivering @transportaction.bsky.social @bettertransport.bsky.social . Apologies to Jonathan Swift
Where do I get a cicisbeo?
The answer, in any case, is obviously 14
1x master
1x spouse
1x mistress
1x cicisbeo
1x for each child (2)
1x dressing room for each adult (4)
1x butler
1x housekeeper
1 for maids to share
1 for footmen
If, of course, the butler and the housekeeper are married to EACH OTHER, it's a great saving
1x master
1x spouse
1x mistress
1x cicisbeo
1x for each child (2)
1x dressing room for each adult (4)
1x butler
1x housekeeper
1 for maids to share
1 for footmen
If, of course, the butler and the housekeeper are married to EACH OTHER, it's a great saving
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Where do I get a cicisbeo?
Brighton and Hove too. Downhill worse
For anyone cycling in London today: it's colder than you think. I'm normally an advocate for not overdoing the layers or coats. Ignore that - go nuclear.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Brighton and Hove too. Downhill worse
Congratulations to @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social for her steadfast commitment to reporting council affairs
Huge congratulations to @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social for winning Local Democracy Reporter of the year!
Holding our council to account and keeping #Brighton residents very well informed. An essential part of a good democracy. 👏👏
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/11/14/b...
Holding our council to account and keeping #Brighton residents very well informed. An essential part of a good democracy. 👏👏
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/11/14/b...
Brighton and Hove journalist wins Local Democracy Reporter of the Year award
Brighton and Hove journalist Sarah Booker-Lewis has won the Local Democracy Reporter of the Year award. The prize was presented
www.brightonandhovenews.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Congratulations to @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social for her steadfast commitment to reporting council affairs
So glad Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying the right thing. What @bhlabour.bsky.social the Labour Party is doing is despicable
Thank you Zack Polanski for saying what needs to be said
‘This is extreme. This is inhumane. This is government of cowards.
‘I am furious - so many people are furious’ 👏
‘This is extreme. This is inhumane. This is government of cowards.
‘I am furious - so many people are furious’ 👏
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So glad Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying the right thing. What @bhlabour.bsky.social the Labour Party is doing is despicable
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Congratulations to the Labour Party for reinventing Less Eligibility at Max Cruelty levels.
It is simply impossible to stop illegal migration by making the system awful, because the system - however bad - will be preferable to the torture, rape and genocide people are fleeing.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Congratulations to the Labour Party for reinventing Less Eligibility at Max Cruelty levels.
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I like school streets that serve some educational purpose and this one in Bordeaux is a great example. Nouvelle-Aquitaine is an important agricultural region and this street creates space for gardens where kids can learn about horticulture.
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I like school streets that serve some educational purpose and this one in Bordeaux is a great example. Nouvelle-Aquitaine is an important agricultural region and this street creates space for gardens where kids can learn about horticulture.
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM