Eric Lesley
@ericlesley2.bsky.social
Trainee Transport planner. Edinburgh via Liverpool. Goodison Whitesox. All views my own. Same handle on twitter.
What's he taking alcaraz off for?
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What's he taking alcaraz off for?
Enjoying O'Brien at centre half
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Enjoying O'Brien at centre half
@jonburkeuk.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this dude?
'Is it less possible to raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats than in a garden city or suburb?', City Architect Lancelot Keay, 1935. New on Substack, my post on Liverpool's interwar multi-storey tenement housing:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@jonburkeuk.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this dude?
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'Is it less possible to raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats than in a garden city or suburb?', City Architect Lancelot Keay, 1935. New on Substack, my post on Liverpool's interwar multi-storey tenement housing:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
'Is it less possible to raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats than in a garden city or suburb?', City Architect Lancelot Keay, 1935. New on Substack, my post on Liverpool's interwar multi-storey tenement housing:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
So it appears that despite being on a fixed tarrif, this havenwise trial is just cranking the heat right up offpeak then just turning off at peak. Its wrecking my scop and we're too hot.
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So it appears that despite being on a fixed tarrif, this havenwise trial is just cranking the heat right up offpeak then just turning off at peak. Its wrecking my scop and we're too hot.
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This.
This right here is why proper cycling infrastructure is an investment in our communities and our future.
It is only the beginning. This route isn’t even fully finished.
When we stop imagining and start doing, change happens.
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
@edi.bike
@chasbooth.bsky.social
This right here is why proper cycling infrastructure is an investment in our communities and our future.
It is only the beginning. This route isn’t even fully finished.
When we stop imagining and start doing, change happens.
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
@edi.bike
@chasbooth.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This.
This right here is why proper cycling infrastructure is an investment in our communities and our future.
It is only the beginning. This route isn’t even fully finished.
When we stop imagining and start doing, change happens.
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
@edi.bike
@chasbooth.bsky.social
This right here is why proper cycling infrastructure is an investment in our communities and our future.
It is only the beginning. This route isn’t even fully finished.
When we stop imagining and start doing, change happens.
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
@edi.bike
@chasbooth.bsky.social
So I've signed up to a free trial of havenwise... And it's just cranked it up so the house is boiling... Let's hope it settles down, cos this ain't saving me electricity
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So I've signed up to a free trial of havenwise... And it's just cranked it up so the house is boiling... Let's hope it settles down, cos this ain't saving me electricity
Mad how much hot water brings down the cop. @zarch1972.bsky.social hot water settings working well for a fast recharge of the cylinder
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mad how much hot water brings down the cop. @zarch1972.bsky.social hot water settings working well for a fast recharge of the cylinder
Presbyterian colourlessness.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Presbyterian colourlessness.
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It's like saying that you are planning for a budget were things will necessarily go very wrong because you, project owner, are 100% sure that you will be unable to deploy any organizational or design measure to avoid costs to escalate out of control.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's like saying that you are planning for a budget were things will necessarily go very wrong because you, project owner, are 100% sure that you will be unable to deploy any organizational or design measure to avoid costs to escalate out of control.
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Moyes will be lucky to see Valentines day the way things are going. Hopeless hoofball, individual players regressing, £70m wasted on players not deemed good enough/not good enough. Looks every inch a past-it dinosaur and certainly no upgrade on Dyche.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Moyes will be lucky to see Valentines day the way things are going. Hopeless hoofball, individual players regressing, £70m wasted on players not deemed good enough/not good enough. Looks every inch a past-it dinosaur and certainly no upgrade on Dyche.
Moyes really is just a waitrose dyche. Think the "new" moyes of last season was just something forced upon him by circumstances.
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Moyes really is just a waitrose dyche. Think the "new" moyes of last season was just something forced upon him by circumstances.
Grand designs got me in bits
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Grand designs got me in bits
My 2 cents worth - filter dalmeny st like iona st and make Albert street/albion rd the east-west route because its signal controlled at leith walk end and on easter rd.
Leith is one of Scotland's (& the UK's) most densely populated neighbourhoods with loads of people walking, using a wheelchair, pushing a pram, or cycling down/across Easter Road.
But many drivers I spoke to also want to see calming measures & improvements. www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/10/10/e...
But many drivers I spoke to also want to see calming measures & improvements. www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/10/10/e...
Edinburgh councillor starts campaign to improve safety on “scary” Leith junction - Deadline News
AN EDINBURGH councillor has launched a petition to urge his colleagues on the council to improve a notorious junction on Easter Road.
www.deadlinenews.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My 2 cents worth - filter dalmeny st like iona st and make Albert street/albion rd the east-west route because its signal controlled at leith walk end and on easter rd.
Sanded and 2 coats of varnish, drying in the autumn sunshine
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sanded and 2 coats of varnish, drying in the autumn sunshine
Winter maintenance for the cargo bike - all the wood stripped off for sanding/varnishing, now taking down to BG cycles in Port-o-bello for a service.
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Winter maintenance for the cargo bike - all the wood stripped off for sanding/varnishing, now taking down to BG cycles in Port-o-bello for a service.
Sad day: theyre replacing the talking green men on London Road
October 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sad day: theyre replacing the talking green men on London Road
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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 9:30 AM
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 a difference alcaraz has made. Same as last season.
October 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What a difference alcaraz has made. Same as last season.
Bobble hat is out of storage
September 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Bobble hat is out of storage
How do i mute anything about america?
September 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
How do i mute anything about america?
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🚨 New on Substack, my updated post on the Manor Estate in Sheffield, once dubbed 'the worst estate in England'. That kind of criticism is common of estates across the country - my post attempts to unpick the hard realities and crude prejudices behind it.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-manor-...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-manor-...
The Manor Estate, Sheffield: ‘the worst estate in Britain’?
In 1995, after a local school had been destroyed in an arson attack, the MP Roy Hattersley (a former chair of Sheffield’s Housing Committee in the sixties) dubbed the Manor Estate ‘the worst estate in...
municipaldreams.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨 New on Substack, my updated post on the Manor Estate in Sheffield, once dubbed 'the worst estate in England'. That kind of criticism is common of estates across the country - my post attempts to unpick the hard realities and crude prejudices behind it.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-manor-...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-manor-...
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Historian Gary Gerstle—one of the leading voices on American political history—joins IWM Rector @mishaglenny.bsky.social to explore how unresolved legacies of race, identity, and constitutional conflict continue to shape U.S. politics today.
www.humanitiesfestival.at/gerstle
www.humanitiesfestival.at/gerstle
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Historian Gary Gerstle—one of the leading voices on American political history—joins IWM Rector @mishaglenny.bsky.social to explore how unresolved legacies of race, identity, and constitutional conflict continue to shape U.S. politics today.
www.humanitiesfestival.at/gerstle
www.humanitiesfestival.at/gerstle
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ICYMI: Valuing Travel Time and Reliability from Emerging Connected Vehicle Data
Valuing Travel Time and Reliability from Emerging Connected Vehicle Data
Recently published: The Value of Travel Time (VTT) is the most significant economic parameter in contemporary Cost-Benefit Analysis. Alongside the Value of Travel Reliability (VTR), these metrics provide critical insights into travel behaviour. Our study employs connected vehicle data paired with Sydney’s extensive toll road network to introduce a novel approach to valuing travel time […]
dlvr.it
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
ICYMI: Valuing Travel Time and Reliability from Emerging Connected Vehicle Data
Pre-winter service done by BG cycles in Portobello. Great shop and Bernard's a great guy. New tyres and pads, just need to re-proof my high performance outdoor clothing and I'm ready!
August 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Pre-winter service done by BG cycles in Portobello. Great shop and Bernard's a great guy. New tyres and pads, just need to re-proof my high performance outdoor clothing and I'm ready!