Meanwhile at the minimally impacted Belfast arrivals we have...

What's most embarrassing for the city of Birmingham?

(Heavy sigh) I called it.

Why is there a right wing conspiracy theory about how humans can create hurricanes but the same folks don’t believe in man-made global warming?

NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏 In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.

Is this where we find out it's directly related to standard of living?

It would be more useful if the REGULAR TRAIN service could have REGULAR PLATFORMS and not this stupid system of giving the stupid platform number 3 mins before the stupid train leaves the stupid station. Stupid.

Day 67 of the Birmingham Road Safety Emergency.

Sunday morning and my train is being held at Tipton. Has this fire really been raging for 20 hours?

Dogpool Lane, Stirchley. A 20mph narrow road, only 500m long It feeds a school, a park, family homes, and a mental health facility Recklessness on this road is a regular occurrence. Today's incident: a 4-car crash that almost certainly resulted in serious injury Make it stop!

A CYCLE LANE! THEY'VE INCLUDED A CYCLE LANE! Who knows, it might even link up with something?!

Less than a fifth of British cities with populations of over 200,000 have tram, light rail or metro systems, compared to four fifths in France and even more in Germany.

endless reports like these which disappear from the news cycle in the blink of an eye, simply accepted as inevitable, endless lives ripped apart to maintain an absolutely fucked up status quo of drivers being able to behave however they please. honestly feel like i’m going insane

Commited the sin of using public transport to go to a place, and expecting to be able to get back. Naive fool that I am

The difference between the WM and GM is stark. GM: We’ve got a shit storm coming of around 70k people but we’re still positive, why not try the tram and leave the car out the city WM: A car park is shut, PLAN AHEAD we couldn’t really give a toss.

In a rare outing for our opinion site, I’ve written about why councils seeking to ban bikes from city centres due to delivery bikes are treating it as a “cycling problem” when it’s actually a law enforcement problem - these are mainly electric mopeds. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…