THREAD: I’m going to try this thread to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, to those who frequently ask me, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share if you think it helps. 🧵#EVS

Article from a construction industry website about Michael Gove's plans for developing Cambridge building.co.uk/focus/a-vision…

If you believe driverless and unstaffed trains, trams and buses are the future, read this (unsettling) account of why trained staff on public transport are essential, not a luxury. We must never ignore the experiences of women and other “vulnerable” people.

Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy. 1/

Buses don't often have a great reputation. In any case, they're certainly not the preferred method of transport. But there is a route in Yorkshire that didn't just overcome the stigma, it demolished it! There are lots of lessons to learn from #the36, so let's go through some: 🧵

Here is the full judgment in the latest stage of the Mill Road bridge judicial review application. The case will now proceed to a further hearing and the bridge will stay open to cars in the meantime. assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/202…

Someone reminded me of that thread today, so ill tell you something. I live in Finland now. Some time ago I left my job hoping to get another one. It didn't worked out and I became unemployed. (A secondary thread).

Of all the insights gained from this year’s #Nudgestock, the most important and sobering must be Jonathan Haidt’s analysis of the harms that social media has been doing to children since 2012 – well worth 30 minutes of your time: youtube.com/live/qV-sjk6tK… Nudgestock #anxiousgeneration

There an extremely powerful psychological tendency across human beings that professor John Jost calls "system justification" -- basically, the tendency to see the social/economic/political regime in which you were raised as normal & proper & good.

Edward Leigh Sam Davies @4soundandfury Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov Greater Cambridge Shared Planning The water credits system is, last we heard, being developed- but the agreement to do so, between the councils and Michael Gove, has been enough for the development to go ahead.

So, four years after Cambridgeshire County Council first introduced an experimental bus gate on Mill Road bridge to support active travel and improve bus reliability, it has decided to abandon its weak defence of the challenge to the permanent TRO, and rerun the process again: cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/an-update…

‘Action to tackle water scarcity, for example, has shown what can be achieved when local authorities, central government and public bodies work in partnership…’ Worth saying, so far ‘Greater Cambridge has seen statements but nothing concrete on water credits… Thread: 1

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

A clear, well argued case by Cllr Andrew Gant in Oxford Clarion for essential transport changes in #Oxford to create a healthier, happier and thriving city. It’s all about vision, leadership and listening. oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-traffic… #LTN #TrafficFilter #ZEZ #WorkplaceParkingLevy