Dan Burns
@danhasaplan.bsky.social
Orbital transport advocate, Disney parks nerd, Arsenal fan.
The only fix for car traffic is alternatives to driving.
The only fix for car traffic is alternatives to driving.
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Vienna's first Dutch-inspired cycling street was recently completed on Argentinierstraße, totally transforming the 1.3 km corridor. 140 car parking spaces were removed to significantly improve the walking and cycling experience—while adding greenery and seating to also turn it into a place to stay.🧵
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Vienna's first Dutch-inspired cycling street was recently completed on Argentinierstraße, totally transforming the 1.3 km corridor. 140 car parking spaces were removed to significantly improve the walking and cycling experience—while adding greenery and seating to also turn it into a place to stay.🧵
That’s a P2 in Hulkenburg world!
Hulkenberg passed Hamilton for P6 on the penultimate lap, which becomes P5 after Verstappen's penalty
What a result for Hulkenberg and Kick Sauber! 👏
#F1 #SpanishGP
What a result for Hulkenberg and Kick Sauber! 👏
#F1 #SpanishGP
June 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
That’s a P2 in Hulkenburg world!
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ULEZ works. It’s that simple.
Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.
Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.
March 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
ULEZ works. It’s that simple.
Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.
Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.
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tfl.gov.uk/corporate/pu... huge amounts of data on reductions in air pollution in London in part due to ULEZ.
March 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
tfl.gov.uk/corporate/pu... huge amounts of data on reductions in air pollution in London in part due to ULEZ.
Somehow TfL runs at a profit despite having the only major mass transport system without government subsidy. Imagine what we could have in London if private companies weren’t partaking in the profits!
This is because even though TFL is public owned, it doesn't run its services instead franchising them to private companies who make massive profits.
For instance TFL leases all the Underground Trains at nearly 90% profit to the companies supplying them.
For instance TFL leases all the Underground Trains at nearly 90% profit to the companies supplying them.
March 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Somehow TfL runs at a profit despite having the only major mass transport system without government subsidy. Imagine what we could have in London if private companies weren’t partaking in the profits!
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Mayor of London eyes Great Northern and Southeastern rail takeover
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
The Mayor of London's new growth plan, announced this morning, reiterates his ambition to take over the Southeastern and Great Northern railways.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
The Mayor of London's new growth plan, announced this morning, reiterates his ambition to take over the Southeastern and Great Northern railways.
Mayor of London eyes Great Northern and Southeastern rail takeover
The Mayor of London's new growth plan, announced this morning, reiterates his ambition to take over the Southeastern and Great Northern railways.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Mayor of London eyes Great Northern and Southeastern rail takeover
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
The Mayor of London's new growth plan, announced this morning, reiterates his ambition to take over the Southeastern and Great Northern railways.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
The Mayor of London's new growth plan, announced this morning, reiterates his ambition to take over the Southeastern and Great Northern railways.
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February 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, using GIFs only
February 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, using GIFs only
E-bikes are the solution to last mile delivery.
“Bicycles offer a number of advantages in express delivery operations: they can bypass traffic congestion and make up to two times as many stops per hour than a delivery vehicle. The total cost of ownership over their lifetime is less than half that of a van.” - John Pearson, CEO, DHL Express Europe
February 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
E-bikes are the solution to last mile delivery.
The American left is far too petty to actually function as an electoral force. Imagine if instead of laughing at Trump voters there was a righteous fury, a narrative of “these people convinced you to vote for them, they lied to you, and now they’re screwing you”. Coalition building starts now.
February 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The American left is far too petty to actually function as an electoral force. Imagine if instead of laughing at Trump voters there was a righteous fury, a narrative of “these people convinced you to vote for them, they lied to you, and now they’re screwing you”. Coalition building starts now.
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My dream—a pedestrian plaza in the heart of every neighborhood—will one day be a reality.
February 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
My dream—a pedestrian plaza in the heart of every neighborhood—will one day be a reality.
Labour camps. The Unites States Secretary of Health and Human Services wants to send ordinary people with anxiety and depression to labour camps. That’s literal Nazi shit.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Labour camps. The Unites States Secretary of Health and Human Services wants to send ordinary people with anxiety and depression to labour camps. That’s literal Nazi shit.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s like they’re trying to kill their customers, just mind numbingly stupid and incredibly dangerous.
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It’s like they’re trying to kill their customers, just mind numbingly stupid and incredibly dangerous.
One step closer to fruition!!
Hounslow Council supports West London Orbital railway plans with £714,000 investment
ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hou...
Hounslow Council has allocated additional funding to the project team developing plans for the West London Orbital railway, which could link Hounslow with Hendon.
ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hou...
Hounslow Council has allocated additional funding to the project team developing plans for the West London Orbital railway, which could link Hounslow with Hendon.
Hounslow Council supports West London Orbital railway plans with £714,000 investment
Hounslow Council has allocated an additional £714,000 to the project team developing plans for the West London Orbital railway, which, if built, will link Hounslow with Hendon via Old Oak Common.
ianvisits.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One step closer to fruition!!
Sounds like they’re raising capital to invest in theme parks. Universal GB looms large.
February 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sounds like they’re raising capital to invest in theme parks. Universal GB looms large.
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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
This should be illegal
February 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This should be illegal
Manifesting a future West Hampstead station as a North London version of Stratford, with Jubilee, Metropolitan, Thameslink, Mildmay, EMR, Chiltern, and West London Orbital services under one roof.
February 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Manifesting a future West Hampstead station as a North London version of Stratford, with Jubilee, Metropolitan, Thameslink, Mildmay, EMR, Chiltern, and West London Orbital services under one roof.
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Rest in peace to Donald Shoup, a true legend who changed the world for the better.
February 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Rest in peace to Donald Shoup, a true legend who changed the world for the better.
Oxford Street next please!!!
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
February 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oxford Street next please!!!
Next time a politician tells you “We don’t know how to fix it”
Yes we do. Metro systems across Asia have been using platform edge doors for decades to prevent suicides. It works.
Yes we do. Metro systems across Asia have been using platform edge doors for decades to prevent suicides. It works.
There have been 816 suicides on Toronto’s subway system since 1954, and another 915 people have attempted suicide over that time.
In 2023, the last full year of data available, 11 people died by suicide & another 33 people attempted suicide.
It's insane we haven't done something about it yet...
In 2023, the last full year of data available, 11 people died by suicide & another 33 people attempted suicide.
It's insane we haven't done something about it yet...
It's crazy the extent we go to prevent an extremely rare occurrence like a catastrophic fire in a metro station, and then we just shrug for a much more common occurrence, someone falling in the tracks, saying installing platform barriers even in brand new systems is too complicated or costly.
February 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Next time a politician tells you “We don’t know how to fix it”
Yes we do. Metro systems across Asia have been using platform edge doors for decades to prevent suicides. It works.
Yes we do. Metro systems across Asia have been using platform edge doors for decades to prevent suicides. It works.
You couldn’t get planning permission in the UK to build a *model railway* like this.
February 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
You couldn’t get planning permission in the UK to build a *model railway* like this.
I walk down one of these dingy underpasses every day on my way to and from work. It’s not pleasant, and I know several people who choose not to walk specifically in order to avoid it. Mode share requires better walking and cycling infrastructure to succeed.
Motonormativity: who must travel out of their way to go through a dingy underpass, and who gets a smooth uninterrupted route across the surface?
January 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I walk down one of these dingy underpasses every day on my way to and from work. It’s not pleasant, and I know several people who choose not to walk specifically in order to avoid it. Mode share requires better walking and cycling infrastructure to succeed.
The ONLY way to explain to the average American how bad this administration is, is by explaining how their actions kill people. Air traffic control hiring freeze? First American airline crash in 16 years. Freeze aid funding? Cancer patients don’t get chemo and die. It’s that simple.
If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
January 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The ONLY way to explain to the average American how bad this administration is, is by explaining how their actions kill people. Air traffic control hiring freeze? First American airline crash in 16 years. Freeze aid funding? Cancer patients don’t get chemo and die. It’s that simple.
At the rate things are going in the States, part of me thinks at least one major Democrat runs for CA governor in 2026 on a secessionist platform.
January 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
At the rate things are going in the States, part of me thinks at least one major Democrat runs for CA governor in 2026 on a secessionist platform.