Steve Chambers
@planningtransport.co.uk
Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Can also be found:
Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros
📸 pixelfed.social/respros
🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
Can also be found:
Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros
📸 pixelfed.social/respros
🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
If I were a gambling man I'd put a fiver on them not lasting the weekend.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If I were a gambling man I'd put a fiver on them not lasting the weekend.
Related, I'm coming round to the overconsumption posters being banned. At one end is the new macbook unboxing people who send them back for a refund at the other end is let's organise your home into a hundred pieces of plastic tat. Either way makes people think something is missing in their lives.
26,000 Instagram followers, no job, arrested 7 times in a month for theft of services. We continue to invent new ways for people to go insane www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
‘She’s Clearly Playing Us’: Influencer Dined and Dashed Through Williamsburg
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Related, I'm coming round to the overconsumption posters being banned. At one end is the new macbook unboxing people who send them back for a refund at the other end is let's organise your home into a hundred pieces of plastic tat. Either way makes people think something is missing in their lives.
This doesn't seem at all doomed to fail. news.sky.com/story/jeremy...
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Ms Sultana had previously claimed she was being "sidelined" by a "sexist boys' club" within the fledgling party.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This doesn't seem at all doomed to fail. news.sky.com/story/jeremy...
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WTF are the people who produce this drivel on
The UK Supreme Court hasn’t just ordered a general election
The UK Supreme Court hasn’t just ordered a general election – Full Fact
The news announced in a Facebook video has no basis in fact.
fullfact.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
WTF are the people who produce this drivel on
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OK, but is government going to pay for the MOT centre to carry out the mileage check on <3y/o vehicles, because otherwise EV drivers will feel reamed and it's hardly more incentive to swap from diesel and petrol vehicles. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Electric cars will need annual checks under Reeves’s new rules
Under the chancellor’s pay-per-mile scheme motorists would have to have mileage officially verified each year
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
OK, but is government going to pay for the MOT centre to carry out the mileage check on <3y/o vehicles, because otherwise EV drivers will feel reamed and it's hardly more incentive to swap from diesel and petrol vehicles. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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I am interested why people all seem to strongly believe the Budget statement that fuel duty will definitely rise next year. There is more detail on how this would be done, but this would be the biggest rise in fuel duty since at least the 1980s and could easily be knocked off course by opposition.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I am interested why people all seem to strongly believe the Budget statement that fuel duty will definitely rise next year. There is more detail on how this would be done, but this would be the biggest rise in fuel duty since at least the 1980s and could easily be knocked off course by opposition.
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I've got several bridges to sell you, as it happens www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Liz Truss promotes £500k club membership to ‘pro-growth leaders’
The former prime minister has been enlisted to front the advertising drive for the Leconfield, a yet-to-be-built network for super-rich executives
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I've got several bridges to sell you, as it happens www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Did a search for 'taxi boats' to see how common this term is. Uber Boat by Thames Clippers was the second results. Disappointingly nothing for Venice on the first page.
France will soon be able to intercept suspected migrant taxi boats in the Channel
France will soon be able to intercept suspected migrant taxi boats in the Channel
French maritime police say they will "soon be able to carry out control and intervention operations at sea" on suspected taxi boats.
news.sky.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Did a search for 'taxi boats' to see how common this term is. Uber Boat by Thames Clippers was the second results. Disappointingly nothing for Venice on the first page.
This list is almost every neighborhood, including some they already have stores. Good way to get coverage in every local publication going. www.standard.co.uk/business/mar...
Are you in line for new M&S? Retailer reveals 200 'wish list' London locations
Retailer says it wants sites with good transport links and strong footfall seven days a week
www.standard.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This list is almost every neighborhood, including some they already have stores. Good way to get coverage in every local publication going. www.standard.co.uk/business/mar...
And then we have this glorified car park. The worst advert possible for shared space and visited by millions.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
And then we have this glorified car park. The worst advert possible for shared space and visited by millions.
Now I'm a member of the V&A I'm suddenly very invested in them sorting out South Ken tube. That station is permanently horrible weekdays and weekends.
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Now I'm a member of the V&A I'm suddenly very invested in them sorting out South Ken tube. That station is permanently horrible weekdays and weekends.
Let's see who gets the blame for London fares going up next year. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Rachel Reeves kicked Sadiq Khan out of office in major bust up over London funding
Rachel Reeves cut a scheduled meeting with the Mayor of London short after they argued about cash for the capital
www.standard.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Let's see who gets the blame for London fares going up next year. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Cannot keep to a narrative for a full 24 hours.
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers on.ft.com/48B0g1U
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers
Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cannot keep to a narrative for a full 24 hours.
Sack whoever is in charge of updating their website and also the person who does their forecasting, if for some reason they are not the same person.
"If the OBR cannot organise its document handling, how can we trust it to get the judgment on productivity or the tax richness of GDP forecasts right?" Well, because they're different things, for one. www.ft.com/content/b1af...
The OBR’s careless leak has damaged us all
The fiscal watchdog’s error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sack whoever is in charge of updating their website and also the person who does their forecasting, if for some reason they are not the same person.
The figures are fake. They're all coming in on dinghies.
Nothing will satisfy the racists and it is a mistake to pander to them.
Nothing will satisfy the racists and it is a mistake to pander to them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The figures are fake. They're all coming in on dinghies.
Nothing will satisfy the racists and it is a mistake to pander to them.
Nothing will satisfy the racists and it is a mistake to pander to them.
Hadn't realised that Dr Who episode was based so closely on a real event.
The man who planned attacks on the Rotterdam Eurovision Song Festival in 2020 was convicted to 2 years jail. Evidence of plans of mass poisoning the audience.
And not surprisingly given the LGBTQ+ reputation of the Eurovision, he is extreme right and wanted to start a race war. Oh, he's Swedish.
And not surprisingly given the LGBTQ+ reputation of the Eurovision, he is extreme right and wanted to start a race war. Oh, he's Swedish.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Hadn't realised that Dr Who episode was based so closely on a real event.
Could have done the right thing from day one, not accumulated a load of enemies on the left and still got the same headlines.
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Could have done the right thing from day one, not accumulated a load of enemies on the left and still got the same headlines.
As things stand the fares freeze won't apply to London.
Train ticket prices in England are being frozen in 2026 – but will tube fares in London still rise?
Train ticket prices in England are being frozen in 2026 – but will tube fares in London still rise?
It doesn’t look promising
www.timeout.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
As things stand the fares freeze won't apply to London.
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Transport in the budget is a bit more of a mixed bag than housing...
The headline is likely to be the introduction of pay-per-mile on EVs while also raising thresholds of support to buy them - the messaging is a bit of a muddle!
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The headline is likely to be the introduction of pay-per-mile on EVs while also raising thresholds of support to buy them - the messaging is a bit of a muddle!
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Quick skim through the budget - some small tidbits on housing (beyond the tax stuff)
👥Funding for extra capacity in the planning system - should help process planning applications & get decisions made faster
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👥Funding for extra capacity in the planning system - should help process planning applications & get decisions made faster
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November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Transport in the budget is a bit more of a mixed bag than housing...
The headline is likely to be the introduction of pay-per-mile on EVs while also raising thresholds of support to buy them - the messaging is a bit of a muddle!
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The headline is likely to be the introduction of pay-per-mile on EVs while also raising thresholds of support to buy them - the messaging is a bit of a muddle!
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This obsession with asylum seekers being denied mobility is really gross.
We’ve seen claims online that asylum seekers are being given Freedom Passes for free London travel.
They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
Are asylum seekers given Freedom Passes for free travel in London? – Full Fact
There is no specific provision for asylum seekers to get free travel in London but they may be eligible for Freedom Passes like any other Londoner.
fullfact.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This obsession with asylum seekers being denied mobility is really gross.
The other practical thing that occurred to me was with the mansion tax being paid by owner, not resident but billing through council tax. For a rental (and luxury rental does exist) the council will have two council tax accounts on the same property with different account holders.
Rachel Reeves is asked about how the 3p a mile electric vehicle charge will work for new cars, when they don't have to have an MOT for 3 years. So who will monitor the mileage in order to calculate the tax owed during that period?
Reeves doesn't know.
Reeves doesn't know.
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The other practical thing that occurred to me was with the mansion tax being paid by owner, not resident but billing through council tax. For a rental (and luxury rental does exist) the council will have two council tax accounts on the same property with different account holders.
"The botched political strategy of Ms Reeves and her boss, Sir Keir Starmer, created a strange impression of the government. Punching the left, even while pursuing an avowedly left-wing economic strategy, was seen as wise politics."
Britain's left-wing government is left-wing www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing
An obvious fact. But still an overlooked one
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"The botched political strategy of Ms Reeves and her boss, Sir Keir Starmer, created a strange impression of the government. Punching the left, even while pursuing an avowedly left-wing economic strategy, was seen as wise politics."
Feel like I'm going through something like mourning for the lost opportunity of that majority.
In effect Labour is now out of time for major changes, execrable preparation leading to a government with no particular idea how to use a huge majority. Ironically I suspect their caution follows national opinion - and they're being crushed by it for following it.
Politics...
Politics...
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Feel like I'm going through something like mourning for the lost opportunity of that majority.
Every story like this makes me want the rate to be set higher.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Every story like this makes me want the rate to be set higher.