Today marks the 5th anniversary of the end of the consultation on pavement parking, carried out under the last government.

We've seen no action when it comes to standing up for people walking and wheeling, who are unable to go about their daily lives safely and easily.

Thanks to open data, it's possible to look at what the spending on the cycle to work scheme is compared to other similar schemes, say vehicle salary sacrifice.
Both involve buying things before tax on wages so reducing your tax bill, giving an idea of the tax raising potential from each.

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work

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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.

There are now few pleasant ways out of this.

American politicians need to find one of those ways.

Brewdog founder launches Shadowdoge

I've re-run my numbers & gutted to say they're worse than I thought. Best case scenario, each local authority could lay, one-way, between 2-300 metres of quality cycle track all things being equal. The reality is more budget split will drive numbers down

www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/ana...

Crossover between cryptic crossword in guardian and @taskmaster.tv

When you put it like this…

Planning barrister Zack Simons isn’t on bluesky, which obviously has held back his career somewhat, so I share with you his tour de force blog post on the government’s NPPF yesterday & related announcements. Great read for anyone who wants to understand this stuff. www.planoraks.com/posts-1/-the...

Does HS2 have a future?

And why does that question hinge on an unseen government document and a sugar mill in Nottinghamshire?

Oh just some mysteriously timed leaking of long-buried information which deposes a cabinet member, definitely sounds like a happy political operation.

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

Seems like the @guestimators.bsky.social bonus quiz is just an elaborate password phishing scheme?!

Another bonus of joining Bluesky is finding these videos of mr blobby- genius! 😂

Glad @fxmc1957.bsky.social is on here- I really enjoy the fact of the day.

🤩 WOW. That was fast! 10,000! Thank you!

🙏🏻 Err….Reckon we can get to…err…1 MILLION followers by the end of the day?! *ahem*

@guestimators.bsky.social gutted I misread number of holidays, and instead did number of DAYS of holiday- but still not bad.

Hello everyone on Bluesky. This seems like the popular place to escape the other site.