This is a massive problem not just for London, but across the country. As well as historic structures, we've also the perfect storm of lots of bridges of a similar age and type being hit with 14 years of local authority defunding. Duncan-Smith is doesn't know what he's on about.

https://twitter.com/BBCTomEdwards/status/1790265521595679192

Like much of modern life, people don't notice the infrastructure they use, but they sure notice it when thing go wrong. In my experience as a London borough bridge manager, we barely had the money to run a decent programme of inspections, let alone repairs - routine or otherwise

Utterly bananas stuff from this feed which manages three mental health slurs in one tweet. Defenders of the status quo have no rational arguments left. And here's rage from an old white man who hates the idea of kids getting to school under their own steam.

I'm not going to tweet out the warped front page from the Daily Mail, but I will say that the diatribe written by @David_Churchill and the comments by @grantshapps will lead to the abuse and injury of people just trying to get around cheaply and easily. You should be ashamed. "Cyclists" are an easy group to have a pop at because there are no (on the face of it) impacts on people with protected characteristics and so a group seen as fair game and it's a great distraction from the failed goverment. In reality, this will impact on people with protected

Devil's food mixer.

Alt text: a faded orange portable concrete mixer turns sand, stones and cement. So, the timber on the trike was to make formwork for a concrete slab for a couple of sheds. I'm doing this by breaking it into three 1.5m x 1.5m squares. I'll cast a slab at each end and then cast the centre slab. This is called "hit and miss". Because it is so warm, I've a

I may have told this story before. This street has footway parking on both sides which gives 1 metre of walking space beyond the lines. But, if drivers obey the markings, you can't get a car up the middle. Because residents kept getting tickets, I was asked to look at it. 1/n My solution was to get rid of the parking on one side and put down double yellow lines. The side with footway parking would still be crap for walking, but the other side would be clear and you could get service vehicles down it - look what is at the end of the street 2/n

Further to the warped Euro-roundabout nonsense from earlier. I'm having a delve into the website set up labourseuroroundabout.com 1/n "These roundabouts have been trialled elsewhere in the country, resulting in driver confusion and collisions. Residents have called the roundabout a “killing zone”.

In fact, there's a single UK example like this in Cambridge which seems to be work OK therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2021/06/fabulo…

2/n

https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1483768328107827201

Honestly. I don't understand politics. You get elected because you shared (some pretty horrendous) positions; lasted a couple of years and then defect. Then these positions are acceptable to a party which (should be) is opposed to those positions. Is it just a numbers game?

OK, it's probably a handful of idiots who are ignoring the "NO FUEL" signs at the petrol station, but LOL. There's normallly pretty much no traffic here on a Sunday morning. And so after picking up sausage rolls from Greggs, I headed back. #PumpWatch #ToryBrexitDisaster

Virtually at the 2021 @CIHTUK virtual #SoRSA conference this afterno. Looking forward to dusting off my road safety hat.

*Society of Road Safety Auditors - SoRSA, a specialist branch of CIHT. TIL horses don't like changes in surface colour. It spooks them. Interesting video here

OK then Worcester folks. I put in a FOI for the cycling ban in the town. They *didn't* undertake an Equality Impact Assessment (although they are not a legal requirement in England because the ConDems stopped them being so). My question and answer;

@BikeWorcester The actual decision background paper states the following. So if no EqIA was undertaken, then there should presumably be something written down which deals with the proposal being screened. I need to read everything and see if a further FOI is required.

Ok then, opponents to LTNs. How will you reduce traffic on main roads. References to data or reports would be useful. What sort of capital costs are involved And what might a programme look like? OK, a few ideas. I think we have to start at the policy level.
1) Widespread controlled parking zones to create a future management framework.
2) Limiting the number of permits residents can obtain. My own borough lets you have as many as you like so demand outstrips kerbside

That Ealing LTN discussion yesterday which showed an increase of 52% of trip length comparing the before & after driven journey lengths between each cell and a series of boundary road destinations. Notwithstanding the fact that it's a simplistic analysis, it's been bugging me 1/ I've run the numbers with another assumption that once someone has driven to the destination point (which are all short journeys) they may well actually be driving further and therefore, the percentage increase between the no LTN state and the post LTN state must reduce with 2/

The study was in 1998 with a follow up review piece in 2002 nacto.org/wp-content/upl…

The study looked at dozens of sites across several countries. More recently, the Waltham Forest experience has reduced traffic overall, more people are walking and cycling plus modeled

https://twitter.com/oneoval_/status/1283166275674480644

air quality assessments are showing improvements even on the main roads.

The problem we have here is the approach of the last 20+ years (if we're talking about the period since the study) has been to do very little to change the status quo. We have tried and failed to

That's an hour of my life I won't get back. My former employer wants impose parking controls in my street. They advertised/ consulted on a proposal, apparently got it wrong so rather than starting again, they have switched to a different part of the legislation which in my opinion would be unlawful for the purpose that they have stated (hopefully I'm right). I think the issue is, there was outcry at the first idea and rather than taking their time, staff have bowed to political pressure for speed while not understanding the law. Of course, had I

OK, I'll play. First, my credentials. Chartered civil engineer, member or fellow of several engineering institutions, accredited street works supervisor. 25 years in the construction industry, much of it around highways and until the summer,

https://twitter.com/jacopasbass/status/1193106452413591552

10 years as a local authority liaison officer who had training in the role from the London Fire Brigade as well as training on multi-agency exercises with them as well as attending live incidents with them and other agencies.

Ugly bastards. Quinces look like big gnarly pears. Inedible unless you cook them (or perhaps use them to flavour vodka!) They smell like a cross between and acidic apples and pineapple.

So, these kids dashing across the road in Bromsgrove, near Birmingham:

https://twitter.com/HWfireRAllen/status/1026191847801192450

1/ Pretty easy to find the location, it's here;

goo.gl/maps/Sz1z8JAYk…

Just look at the layout 2/