That is, after I’ve negotiated my way through this barrier to access. This is a walking, wheeling and cycling route to a school on NCN535. Utterly bewildering. 7/20

And this is why the West should be deeply concerned by this chart. Held back by fossil lobbyists, electrification is being made too slow and too expensive in most western countries.

Spending on MPs' expenses and staff costs amounts to about £150m each year (0.01% of all spending). Why do people think that MPs' expenses are in the top three spending items, when they're not in the top three hundred?

And there is also widespread misunderstanding of the simplest feature of the income tax system - the way that bands work:

Trump says there’s no empty seats and the cameraman goes rogue Live fact checks at trump rallies now

Supply and demand in action paradoxically it seems!

Time to end the exceptional hardship plea, by reaching12 points you’ve already proven that you are unfit to drive on our roads. More than 50 people have UK driving licences with at least 30 points on them. theguardian.com/money/2024/nov…

I hope the Camden council officer who wrote this took the rest of the day off👏democracy.camden.gov.uk/documents/s119…

“If only the police would get out of the way, the nation's van drivers & scaffolders could deal with them in 2 seconds flat," wrote Jeremy Clarkson in 2022 re road-blocking of Just Stop Oil protestors. Today, Clarkson will be at the head of a road-blocking protest by farmers.

Electric cars make up one in four sold in November bbc.in/41mYkXE

If roads were designed like cycle lanes.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITP

In just 4 weeks, an astonishing 888 vehicles stopped, 635 as the driver was using their phone. #OpTramline 2024, where #VanguardRST supported by other officers from Surrey Police & Sussex Police, utilised the National Highways unmarked truck on the A3, M25, M23 & A23. #Fatal5

Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!). How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

London at rush hour today in February when its 1 degree celsius🥶

Is this really happening? Shocking but It shouldn't be too surprising after 2023, 2024 & Jan 2025 #arctic

Did you know there's about 400 parts per million (ppm) of caffeine in coffee? There's over 400 ppm of CO₂ in our atmosphere today. If you've felt the surge of caffeine hitting your system, you've experienced the effects of just 400 ppm.

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

A Lime bike rider, who was riding at 30mph in a 20mph zone, damaged their bike and then dumped it on a pavement with no regard for vulnerable pedestrians