It’s such a shame all those places in London are gone now. I always try to visit ones in other cities when I travel.

If you’re happy with 1:48 or 1:72 (or even 1/32) scale you can have your early jet museum hanging from the ceiling of a room fairly inexpensively.

You know you can buy plastic kits you can assemble and paint and hang from your ceiling, right?

Easily done with a Kendal Mint Cake, a little bit of fondant and a sharp knife

…as well as the introduction of 60mm kerbs where there would have been an undeliniated level surface here. AND the increase in spacing between the security bollards from 1.1 to 1.4m to better accommodate wider mobility aids, in particular adapted cycles

The three key changes they highlighted, which they wouldn’t have done if they hadn’t been using the tool, were the full tactile delineation of this level surface (necessary because of the Lord Mayor’s Show) with Blister and Corduroy paving

Does this imply discovery of a Spoonman and a Rhinosaur are imminent?

Super cool pic of @blondehistorian.bsky.social on the header! 😎

If you work in street design and want to learn more about TESS, and what CoL officers changed about the redesign of Bank Junction thanks to its predecessor CoLSAT, we’re running two sessions at the Guildhall on Sep 26th and 30th. Email [email protected] if you’d like to come along

It’s built on top of the City of London Street Accessibility Tool (CoLSAT - which has been in use by CoL and others since 2021) and uses all the data and insight we gathered for that, but we’ve done 64 more interviews and added more features to better represent streets outside CoL.

Schnaps! Actually maybe not worth risking arrest and sight loss.

I may be misremembering this but I think about 8 to 10 years ago someone in TV told me an hour of UK made TV drama costs £5million.

Not mine but works on a similar principle and I agree much better than the steel A-frames. Looking at the size of the bases on those I’d be surprised if they pass the wind test with those sign faces attached.

Bad design of public infrastructure imposes costs on individual disabled people which the government needs (and usually fails to fully) compensate them for with PIP. Improving that infrastructure reduces costs for disabled people but also benefits the whole of society.

Have you tried turning the cover inside out, putting your arms inside, pushing your hands into the far corners, grabbing the corresponding corners of the duvet and then uninverting the whole thing with a single big flourish? It ends up quite planar when it works right.

My dad had these in the fridge at all times between about 1995 and 2020

I’m offended and our 6yo and 4yo would be offended if I told them you’d said that (which I won’t