Dermot Hanney
@hanneydp.bsky.social
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Revamped website for @transportfornewhomes.org.uk - lots of research showing the gap between the good words in planning policy on sustainable transport and then what actually built on the ground: www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Transport for New Homes
Bringing transport and planning together
www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Revamped website for @transportfornewhomes.org.uk - lots of research showing the gap between the good words in planning policy on sustainable transport and then what actually built on the ground: www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk
The issue for UK is not it shouldn’t build high speed rail, but why does high spreed rail cost so much to build? As someone raised in the comments here, the cost per passenger km is not so great as this will be a high use route so maybe we are in many ways simply miscalculating these schemes costs
This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
January 13, 2026 at 1:07 PM
The issue for UK is not it shouldn’t build high speed rail, but why does high spreed rail cost so much to build? As someone raised in the comments here, the cost per passenger km is not so great as this will be a high use route so maybe we are in many ways simply miscalculating these schemes costs
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This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
January 13, 2026 at 9:26 AM
This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
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I mean, it’s absurdly high, but it will actually run a lot of traffic and so won’t be the highest cost per seat mile.
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I mean, it’s absurdly high, but it will actually run a lot of traffic and so won’t be the highest cost per seat mile.
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Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test
A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…
A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…
Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test
A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara. According to court reports yesterday, Judge O’Donohoe said in the Circuit Civil Court said: “You never know with cyclists what they are going to do or anticipate what they are going to do...
irishcycle.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test
A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…
A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…
@secondcaptains.bsky.social @kenearly.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social @dionfanning.bsky.social player that fell off cliff example after major transfer in Premier League after looking world class example missed = Andriy Shevchenko at Chelsea. Never got off the ground after looking amazing at AC
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@secondcaptains.bsky.social @kenearly.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social @dionfanning.bsky.social player that fell off cliff example after major transfer in Premier League after looking world class example missed = Andriy Shevchenko at Chelsea. Never got off the ground after looking amazing at AC
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Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
Back To The Future In East Oxford
I have been doing some work in Oxford, and on a recent visit, I had the chance to look at some historic traffic calming in East Oxford which...
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford.
therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
This is where blind reliance on cars and ignorance of decarbonisation gets you
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
December 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is where blind reliance on cars and ignorance of decarbonisation gets you
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
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Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
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Contract for Belfast-Dublin trains expected to be signed within days after High Court clears tracks
A legal block on Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways signing a contract for new Dublin-Belfast trains has been lifted by the Commercial Court, a division of the High Court. The block was put in…
A legal block on Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways signing a contract for new Dublin-Belfast trains has been lifted by the Commercial Court, a division of the High Court. The block was put in…
Contract for Belfast-Dublin trains expected to be signed within days after High Court clears tracks
A legal block on Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways signing a contract for new Dublin-Belfast trains has been lifted by the Commercial Court, a division of the High Court. The block was put in place through a legal application by Spanish train manufacturer CAF, which lost out in the bidding process for the new trains to Swiss manufacturer Stadler. …
irishcycle.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Contract for Belfast-Dublin trains expected to be signed within days after High Court clears tracks
A legal block on Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways signing a contract for new Dublin-Belfast trains has been lifted by the Commercial Court, a division of the High Court. The block was put in…
A legal block on Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways signing a contract for new Dublin-Belfast trains has been lifted by the Commercial Court, a division of the High Court. The block was put in…
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Government goes cold on ordering new trains, so 41-year-old Dart fleet — breaking down daily — to keep causing issues for rail network for years
A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the…
A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the…
Government goes cold on ordering new trains, so 41-year-old Dart fleet — breaking down daily — to keep causing issues for rail network for years
A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the Dublin rail network, likely cost the State more when the trains are ordered, and will delay the expansion of other train services, it has been claimed. Earlier this year, the Department of Transport claimed the delay in ordering the trains -- replacements for the existing 41-year-old Dart carriages, which are suffering daily breakdowns and affecting local and intercity services -- was due to a review of the National Development Plan.
irishcycle.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Government goes cold on ordering new trains, so 41-year-old Dart fleet — breaking down daily — to keep causing issues for rail network for years
A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the…
A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the…
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🗺️ Who wanted PTAL but for the whole country? Well, here you are. labs.podaris.com/dft-connecti...
DfT Connectivity Metric Viewer by Podaris
Explore how connected your area really is – a UK-wide map built using the Department for Transport's new Connectivity Metric.
labs.podaris.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🗺️ Who wanted PTAL but for the whole country? Well, here you are. labs.podaris.com/dft-connecti...
Westfield Avenue new cycle track coming along nicely
Intrigued if blue sections are part of guidance or designer just going on a solo run
Really like the SUDS / planting arrangement.
More to come soon further west
Intrigued if blue sections are part of guidance or designer just going on a solo run
Really like the SUDS / planting arrangement.
More to come soon further west
November 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Westfield Avenue new cycle track coming along nicely
Intrigued if blue sections are part of guidance or designer just going on a solo run
Really like the SUDS / planting arrangement.
More to come soon further west
Intrigued if blue sections are part of guidance or designer just going on a solo run
Really like the SUDS / planting arrangement.
More to come soon further west
Anyone know if there’s a hack to find out when the new DLR train is running today?
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Anyone know if there’s a hack to find out when the new DLR train is running today?
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Expansion of Dart to Drogheda using battery-electric trains delayed until 2027
A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed…
A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed…
Expansion of Dart to Drogheda using battery-electric trains delayed until 2027
A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed today. The plan includes using new battery-electric trains to serve towns between Malahide, where overhead electrification currently ends, and Drogheda.
irishcycle.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Expansion of Dart to Drogheda using battery-electric trains delayed until 2027
A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed…
A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed…
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We'd be alright if it weren't for the customers.
an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy
Don Ciccio Osteria Italiana | Italian Restaurant | 1A Hampstead Lane, London, UK
Don Ciccio Osteria is a true italian resturant in North London.
Home made fresh pasta, meat and fish specialities.
We're home of the authentic italian truffle
www.donciccio-highgate.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We'd be alright if it weren't for the customers.
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Good morning Cardiff 🌅
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Good morning Cardiff 🌅
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October 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council.
This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.
This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.
What makes side road junctions pedestrian-friendly?
ForewordThis post has a companion written by Robert Weetman. We have been working collaboratively on something which we think needs to be more widely known, but we also thought it might be fun and …
cityinfinity.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This article is written in such a way that’s it’s a revelation to the Irish Government that public transport services need a subsidy to run at any way a decent level of service. What are they on about about a “funding gap”? Every year there’s been “funding gap”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
Budget 2026: Public transport fare hikes or service cuts on cards
Government may raid National Development Plan funds to plug €250m gap in 'public service obligation' transport
www.irishexaminer.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This article is written in such a way that’s it’s a revelation to the Irish Government that public transport services need a subsidy to run at any way a decent level of service. What are they on about about a “funding gap”? Every year there’s been “funding gap”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
Just a few examples from this weekend on how climate change is impacting us more and more using the medium of football to illustrate it. These are clear examples of climate impact costing society. But yet people will try convince you we are wasting money on spending on infrastructure resilience.
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just a few examples from this weekend on how climate change is impacting us more and more using the medium of football to illustrate it. These are clear examples of climate impact costing society. But yet people will try convince you we are wasting money on spending on infrastructure resilience.
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“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
Spend now to save money later and secure economic benefits into the future.
We need to avoid being seduced by the idea spending more on climate resilience is in any way money wasted and a cost we could do without
www.railtech.com/all/2025/09/...
We need to avoid being seduced by the idea spending more on climate resilience is in any way money wasted and a cost we could do without
www.railtech.com/all/2025/09/...
Scenic but fragile: Irish Rail takes action to shield east coast line from rising sea
The Irish east coast is crumbling, slowly — but surely. To protect the coastal Dublin–Rosslare railway in face of climate change: the rising sea, increased erosion and stronger…
www.railtech.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Spend now to save money later and secure economic benefits into the future.
We need to avoid being seduced by the idea spending more on climate resilience is in any way money wasted and a cost we could do without
www.railtech.com/all/2025/09/...
We need to avoid being seduced by the idea spending more on climate resilience is in any way money wasted and a cost we could do without
www.railtech.com/all/2025/09/...