James Bambury
@jbambury.bsky.social
Transport planning data and modelling. Pootling on a bike
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33% of the benefit of the fuel duty freeze and of the hundreds of millions spent of vehicle salary sacrifice schemes is for leisure driving, but that doesn't seem to be questioned.
It's not low earners who can afford to forego £500 per month from their wages for an EV while saving on tax.
It's not low earners who can afford to forego £500 per month from their wages for an EV while saving on tax.
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
33% of the benefit of the fuel duty freeze and of the hundreds of millions spent of vehicle salary sacrifice schemes is for leisure driving, but that doesn't seem to be questioned.
It's not low earners who can afford to forego £500 per month from their wages for an EV while saving on tax.
It's not low earners who can afford to forego £500 per month from their wages for an EV while saving on tax.
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New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands
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Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
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November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
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Blimey. Utterly useless wankers.
No doubt yet another fuel duty cut will be affordable.
No doubt yet another fuel duty cut will be affordable.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Blimey. Utterly useless wankers.
No doubt yet another fuel duty cut will be affordable.
No doubt yet another fuel duty cut will be affordable.
People were saying that about the last election just because of the LTNs and that turned out to be entirely incorrect.
We’re moving to the summing up now. Cllr Liam Walker (Con, Hanborough): “Cllr Gant – I don’t know where to start that wouldn’t get me into trouble with the Monitoring Officer, but let’s see how the next election goes for him. The Green Party want to charge more for large cars – absolutely nuts.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
People were saying that about the last election just because of the LTNs and that turned out to be entirely incorrect.
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On the latter, there is a tendency within Westminster to massively overweight simplistic issue polling (i.e. support/oppose) and underweight other polling that is far better at explaining voter behaviour (e.g. what their priorities are, valence evaluations, party images, etc.).
October 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
On the latter, there is a tendency within Westminster to massively overweight simplistic issue polling (i.e. support/oppose) and underweight other polling that is far better at explaining voter behaviour (e.g. what their priorities are, valence evaluations, party images, etc.).
I threw a bit of a cautionary on the grn rise to 12% for yougov in the immediate wake of polanski's election as leader as usual for single poll and that applies for this 15% too. However, recent polls do seem to indicate a least a shift from 9-10% to 12-13%.
Our latest Westminster voting intention (19-20 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov
Reform UK: 26% (-1 from 12-13 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 15% (-1)
Greens: 15% (+2)
SNP: 4% (+1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Reform UK: 26% (-1 from 12-13 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 15% (-1)
Greens: 15% (+2)
SNP: 4% (+1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
October 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I threw a bit of a cautionary on the grn rise to 12% for yougov in the immediate wake of polanski's election as leader as usual for single poll and that applies for this 15% too. However, recent polls do seem to indicate a least a shift from 9-10% to 12-13%.
I'd hoped to be wrong but seems we have transplanted the fantasy transport approach of carrot first nonsense of the Rees adminstration into WECA.
Road space is highly limited so the possible carrots on offer without sticks are withered limp and ineffective, this is not hard to understand.
Road space is highly limited so the possible carrots on offer without sticks are withered limp and ineffective, this is not hard to understand.
Transport planners have gone back to the drawing board with revised proposals for the A4 between Bristol and Bath
A4 plans go back to drawing board after outcry
"We need more carrots and less sticks," says West of England mayor, Helen Godwin
www.bristol247.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'd hoped to be wrong but seems we have transplanted the fantasy transport approach of carrot first nonsense of the Rees adminstration into WECA.
Road space is highly limited so the possible carrots on offer without sticks are withered limp and ineffective, this is not hard to understand.
Road space is highly limited so the possible carrots on offer without sticks are withered limp and ineffective, this is not hard to understand.
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Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.
Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:
Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.
Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:
Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:
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The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage
And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context
And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage
And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context
And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context
A non London English city finally does a congestion charge of reasonable coverage.
Still not a fan of the 100 days per year exemptions though. Needlessly complicated and not sure the distributional impact is great.
Still not a fan of the 100 days per year exemptions though. Needlessly complicated and not sure the distributional impact is great.
Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.
September 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A non London English city finally does a congestion charge of reasonable coverage.
Still not a fan of the 100 days per year exemptions though. Needlessly complicated and not sure the distributional impact is great.
Still not a fan of the 100 days per year exemptions though. Needlessly complicated and not sure the distributional impact is great.
Which raises the question of whether this is leadership incompetence in the police to deprioritise addressing crimes with actual victims in favour of mostly old people sat with sign*, or a breakdown in their claimed operational independence.
*and Streisand effecting the whole matter in the process
*and Streisand effecting the whole matter in the process
Eh? Obvious nonsense, the police are always at discretion over arrests and where to direct an ultimately constrained force; this is observed daily.
It's a choice to spend these shifts here rather than on the backlog of phone/bike muggings, burglaries and motor vehicle crime.
It's a choice to spend these shifts here rather than on the backlog of phone/bike muggings, burglaries and motor vehicle crime.
September 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Which raises the question of whether this is leadership incompetence in the police to deprioritise addressing crimes with actual victims in favour of mostly old people sat with sign*, or a breakdown in their claimed operational independence.
*and Streisand effecting the whole matter in the process
*and Streisand effecting the whole matter in the process
Obviously they just need to talk about immigration more 🙄
Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament
Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament
Labour has sunk to its lowest approval rating for this parliament, according to a fresh YouGov poll for Sky News.
news.sky.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Obviously they just need to talk about immigration more 🙄
Because daft regulatory reasons the option for farside signals is included in the toucan regs but not the puffin ones. If you want a farside puffin (which you should, because nearside are an abomination) it goes by the rather more more boringly name of 'Pedex'.
Puffin crossings (Pedestrian User-Friendly INtelligent) are like pelican crossings, but more advanced. Pedestrians press a button, and sensors detect if people are waiting or still crossing. The signal is on the same side of the road as the pedestrians.
August 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Because daft regulatory reasons the option for farside signals is included in the toucan regs but not the puffin ones. If you want a farside puffin (which you should, because nearside are an abomination) it goes by the rather more more boringly name of 'Pedex'.
Guess this absolute gem got buried by the subsequent farage stuff.
Just embarrassing, never had much hope about this government but expected some basic competence.
Just embarrassing, never had much hope about this government but expected some basic competence.
July 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Guess this absolute gem got buried by the subsequent farage stuff.
Just embarrassing, never had much hope about this government but expected some basic competence.
Just embarrassing, never had much hope about this government but expected some basic competence.
Perhaps a social media limit instead for SpAds so they get out a bit more?
Two hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government
Two hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government
Social media limits for children are being planned by the government to tackle "compulsive" screen time, the technology secretary has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Perhaps a social media limit instead for SpAds so they get out a bit more?
If there's a political attack angle here it's surely on a compassionate line but no, tory leadership jumps down a conspiracy hole instead. The whole workplace obviously still a toxic mess.
After a Treasury spokesperson says Rachel Reeves was upset at PMQs due to a personal matter, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells journalists that "something strange is going on" and insists the Chancellor immediately disclose what is happening in her personal life
July 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If there's a political attack angle here it's surely on a compassionate line but no, tory leadership jumps down a conspiracy hole instead. The whole workplace obviously still a toxic mess.
A rare politician who actually understands this and is willing to say and act on it.
Andrew Gant: “Cllr Arshad said we should instead deliver better buses and cycling. Everything is contained in that word ‘instead’ as if you can do one without the other. You can‘t. Politicians need to grow up and face facts.”
June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A rare politician who actually understands this and is willing to say and act on it.
Not entirely sure why my idle youtube procrastination is getting interrupted by Israeli propaganda for their warmongering. 🙄
June 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Not entirely sure why my idle youtube procrastination is getting interrupted by Israeli propaganda for their warmongering. 🙄
Good to see this issue finally seems to be getting some reasonable attention, pity it's about 10 years after the horse left the stable. 😬
In crashes, high-fronted cars typically strike adult pedestrians above the centre of gravity, often first hitting vital organs.
The higher the vehicle front the more likely a person will be knocked under the car, rather than pushed to the side, at speeds of up to 50 km/h.
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The higher the vehicle front the more likely a person will be knocked under the car, rather than pushed to the side, at speeds of up to 50 km/h.
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June 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Good to see this issue finally seems to be getting some reasonable attention, pity it's about 10 years after the horse left the stable. 😬
Another one for my 'EuroNCAP pedestrian score is not fit for purpose' grumble...
“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
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Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
May 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Another one for my 'EuroNCAP pedestrian score is not fit for purpose' grumble...
Well that was predictable. 🙄
No doubt the dwindling number of galaxy brain starter/mcsweeney loyalists will be insisting that this is the right thing to do.
No doubt the dwindling number of galaxy brain starter/mcsweeney loyalists will be insisting that this is the right thing to do.
50% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the highest level since June 2016
Immigration: 50% (+2 from 3-5 May)
Economy: 49% (-3)
Health: 36% (=)
Crime: 22% (=)
Defence: 21% (+1)
Housing: 18% (-2)
Environment: 17% (+2)
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Immigration: 50% (+2 from 3-5 May)
Economy: 49% (-3)
Health: 36% (=)
Crime: 22% (=)
Defence: 21% (+1)
Housing: 18% (-2)
Environment: 17% (+2)
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Well that was predictable. 🙄
No doubt the dwindling number of galaxy brain starter/mcsweeney loyalists will be insisting that this is the right thing to do.
No doubt the dwindling number of galaxy brain starter/mcsweeney loyalists will be insisting that this is the right thing to do.
There's parliamentary time for pointless laws on death by cycling but not apparently for sorting out any of the voting systems.
Perhaps labour will change their tune on this once FPTP starts biting them?
Perhaps labour will change their tune on this once FPTP starts biting them?
West of England mayoral voting intention (9-23 April) - a close race between Mary Page and Helen Godwin
Mary Page (Grn): 27%
Helen Godwin (Lab): 23%
Arron Banks (Ref): 18%
Steve Smith (Con): 17%
Oli Henman (LD): 13%
Ian Scott (Ind): 2%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Mary Page (Grn): 27%
Helen Godwin (Lab): 23%
Arron Banks (Ref): 18%
Steve Smith (Con): 17%
Oli Henman (LD): 13%
Ian Scott (Ind): 2%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
April 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
There's parliamentary time for pointless laws on death by cycling but not apparently for sorting out any of the voting systems.
Perhaps labour will change their tune on this once FPTP starts biting them?
Perhaps labour will change their tune on this once FPTP starts biting them?
Buys higher end beans for £60+ per kilo.
Then puts them through a fairly 'meh' grinder and drowns the output in milk and syrup. 🤦♂️
Fresh roasted coffee can be found for a quarter of that price, or less, doubt the difference would be noticed.
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Then puts them through a fairly 'meh' grinder and drowns the output in milk and syrup. 🤦♂️
Fresh roasted coffee can be found for a quarter of that price, or less, doubt the difference would be noticed.
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
I bought a £500 coffee machine to save money - but now I spend £2.4k a year on it
It's official, British Gen Z-ers prefer coffee to tea. And if they're anything like me they're spending a fortune on it
inews.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Buys higher end beans for £60+ per kilo.
Then puts them through a fairly 'meh' grinder and drowns the output in milk and syrup. 🤦♂️
Fresh roasted coffee can be found for a quarter of that price, or less, doubt the difference would be noticed.
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Then puts them through a fairly 'meh' grinder and drowns the output in milk and syrup. 🤦♂️
Fresh roasted coffee can be found for a quarter of that price, or less, doubt the difference would be noticed.
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
TPT regularly shows motonormativity in its rulings, needs some serious reform.
The urban realm is diminished with endless bright yellow sign backings and patches of near luminous red tarmac due to its rulings.
Things that don't actually make a difference as the drivers simply aren't looking.
The urban realm is diminished with endless bright yellow sign backings and patches of near luminous red tarmac due to its rulings.
Things that don't actually make a difference as the drivers simply aren't looking.
A tribunal judge who had previously rejected appeals by drivers caught by the infamous Cumberland Rd busgate in Bristol has changed his mind. He said although the warning signs are legal & adequate, the fact so many are caught means the council should revisit it
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Bus gate warning signs should be improved again says judge
An 'unusually large' number of fines are being issued said a tribunal adjudicator
www.bristolpost.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
TPT regularly shows motonormativity in its rulings, needs some serious reform.
The urban realm is diminished with endless bright yellow sign backings and patches of near luminous red tarmac due to its rulings.
Things that don't actually make a difference as the drivers simply aren't looking.
The urban realm is diminished with endless bright yellow sign backings and patches of near luminous red tarmac due to its rulings.
Things that don't actually make a difference as the drivers simply aren't looking.
Figuring at this point trump and co's performance the whole week was just a set up to today's attempt to humiliate Zelenskyy. The apparent success of the Macron & Starmer visits and his demeanour during them was just for contrast to today.
February 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Figuring at this point trump and co's performance the whole week was just a set up to today's attempt to humiliate Zelenskyy. The apparent success of the Macron & Starmer visits and his demeanour during them was just for contrast to today.