David Farnsworth
@farnsworth100.bsky.social
All things urban policy, environment, planning, democracy through informed choice. Background began in public + private corporates, then community empowerment.
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"The traffic model is the slave, not the master." Models are frequently full of faulty assumptions, and rarely understand actual human behaviour in the context of change and choices. Never let a traffic model tell you what to do. Decide what you WANT to happen, & design how to get there. #multimodal
February 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"The traffic model is the slave, not the master." Models are frequently full of faulty assumptions, and rarely understand actual human behaviour in the context of change and choices. Never let a traffic model tell you what to do. Decide what you WANT to happen, & design how to get there. #multimodal
2/2 ....... Alan Walter was quizzed at the World Bank about his remark that Hong Kong was the ‘most free society in the world’, by eminent statistician Angus Maddison that Hong Kong didn’t have elections, he replied with a smile was ‘Yes, that’s just what I meant.
January 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
2/2 ....... Alan Walter was quizzed at the World Bank about his remark that Hong Kong was the ‘most free society in the world’, by eminent statistician Angus Maddison that Hong Kong didn’t have elections, he replied with a smile was ‘Yes, that’s just what I meant.
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Pssst, want to know what public money is really being spent on while Wes Streeting cancels another Labour pledge of building more hospitals?
£11 billion 840 million of State aid (public money) is being pumped into 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones (SEZs), that's £160 million per zone.
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£11 billion 840 million of State aid (public money) is being pumped into 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones (SEZs), that's £160 million per zone.
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January 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Is current politics all about theatre and pretense, rather than the analysis of the costs/benefits of a policy to find the most effective for the most people? Naive?@premnsikka.bsky.social @ceritheviking.bsky.social @michaellondonsf.bsky.social @europeanpowell.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Is current politics all about theatre and pretense, rather than the analysis of the costs/benefits of a policy to find the most effective for the most people? Naive?@premnsikka.bsky.social @ceritheviking.bsky.social @michaellondonsf.bsky.social @europeanpowell.bsky.social
Get the impression that the UK conservation/archaeological/historic sites establishment is against restoration in principle? Why stop at a certain date in history? @annadillon.bsky.social @chartresfi.bsky.social @stroudstory.bsky.social @curatorkate.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Get the impression that the UK conservation/archaeological/historic sites establishment is against restoration in principle? Why stop at a certain date in history? @annadillon.bsky.social @chartresfi.bsky.social @stroudstory.bsky.social @curatorkate.bsky.social
Wonder why the same (unthinking?) rationale of spending on road building and car ownership that induces more car use, is not applied to public transport: so that spending on bus/tram services, lanes and frequency can induce more bus/tram use?
November 21, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Wonder why the same (unthinking?) rationale of spending on road building and car ownership that induces more car use, is not applied to public transport: so that spending on bus/tram services, lanes and frequency can induce more bus/tram use?