Giselle du Toit
@giselledutoit.bsky.social
Manchester, UK.
Utility cycling 🚲 & public transport 🐝
Utility cycling 🚲 & public transport 🐝
Red and green pedestrian lights from various places...
A very slow moving thread...
A very slow moving thread...
September 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Red and green pedestrian lights from various places...
A very slow moving thread...
A very slow moving thread...
No tractors, except tractors.
August 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
No tractors, except tractors.
Eindhoven temporary signs. Again instead of trip-hazard sandwich boards with sandbags taking up valuable footway space, it just fits in-between the bricks. Relies on bricks being present so perhaps not as easy to reproduce in the UK as the German variety.
August 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Eindhoven temporary signs. Again instead of trip-hazard sandwich boards with sandbags taking up valuable footway space, it just fits in-between the bricks. Relies on bricks being present so perhaps not as easy to reproduce in the UK as the German variety.
German alternative to sandwich boards and sandbags. Seems much more sensible with a smaller footprint where it matters to pedestrians and cyclists.
August 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
German alternative to sandwich boards and sandbags. Seems much more sensible with a smaller footprint where it matters to pedestrians and cyclists.
Even in the Netherlands where two tier racks are common, the preference is clearly for the bottom rack. (Also these only really work if you have a frame lock, there are no locking points on them.)
Nijmegen Plein 1944
Nijmegen Plein 1944
August 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Even in the Netherlands where two tier racks are common, the preference is clearly for the bottom rack. (Also these only really work if you have a frame lock, there are no locking points on them.)
Nijmegen Plein 1944
Nijmegen Plein 1944
Took c. 1 hour *at a ticket office* to buy train tickets with a bike reservation yesterday. I'd given up on doing it online as most of the apps don't let you, and the others were saying "no reservations available" - I think because the trip involved a Northern leg, which doesn't do reservations.
July 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Took c. 1 hour *at a ticket office* to buy train tickets with a bike reservation yesterday. I'd given up on doing it online as most of the apps don't let you, and the others were saying "no reservations available" - I think because the trip involved a Northern leg, which doesn't do reservations.
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the lads who chopped down that tree got FOUR YEARS
speeding uninsured driver kills a child crossing the road, gets 16 months(!) in prison and will be free to drive again within three years. there is simply no deterrent to doing whatever you want, killing whoever you want with a car
Cardiff driver jailed for 16 months for killing teenager
Christopher West hit Keely Morgan on 1 May 2023 and she died at the scene.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
the lads who chopped down that tree got FOUR YEARS
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It is 39°C in Lisbon today. The same in Madrid. In Paris next week it will also be 39°C.
Look at this picture. People are under trees, where it can be up to 12°C cooler.
Given trees take decades to mature and many don’t survive, cities need to plant many more street trees. And urgently.
Look at this picture. People are under trees, where it can be up to 12°C cooler.
Given trees take decades to mature and many don’t survive, cities need to plant many more street trees. And urgently.
June 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It is 39°C in Lisbon today. The same in Madrid. In Paris next week it will also be 39°C.
Look at this picture. People are under trees, where it can be up to 12°C cooler.
Given trees take decades to mature and many don’t survive, cities need to plant many more street trees. And urgently.
Look at this picture. People are under trees, where it can be up to 12°C cooler.
Given trees take decades to mature and many don’t survive, cities need to plant many more street trees. And urgently.
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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I keep getting ads telling me to use AI to answer my emails for me, and everything I know about the theory of induced traffic tells me that this ends with an exponential increase in pointless emails as robots chat away to each other and minimal actual productivity gains
June 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I keep getting ads telling me to use AI to answer my emails for me, and everything I know about the theory of induced traffic tells me that this ends with an exponential increase in pointless emails as robots chat away to each other and minimal actual productivity gains
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As the author, I’m immensely proud of this report. But mainly I hope people read it and take notice. This is about the rise in ‘fake e-bikes’, and what’s driving it appgcw.org/resources/in...
Unregulated and Unsafe: The Threat of Illegal E-Bikes - All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking
To download the report in PDF format, please click here. Parliamentary Group Warns of “Fake E-Bike” Safety Crisis and Calls for Urgent Government Action Unsafe e-bike products linked to fires and ...
appgcw.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
As the author, I’m immensely proud of this report. But mainly I hope people read it and take notice. This is about the rise in ‘fake e-bikes’, and what’s driving it appgcw.org/resources/in...
(1) An Operator or an authorised person may require any person to queue in order to regulate order or safety on or near the railway.
Most British byelaw ever?
Most British byelaw ever?
June 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
(1) An Operator or an authorised person may require any person to queue in order to regulate order or safety on or near the railway.
Most British byelaw ever?
Most British byelaw ever?
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Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers.
Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.
Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.
June 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers.
Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.
Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.
Premade Dutch style humps in the wild! Stockport Grammar school car park.
April 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Premade Dutch style humps in the wild! Stockport Grammar school car park.
Apparently most rail trips are now for leisure purposes. So it's great that we still do engineering works on bank holiday weekends then....
April 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Apparently most rail trips are now for leisure purposes. So it's great that we still do engineering works on bank holiday weekends then....
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Today is 80 years since the Nazis executed Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was imprisoned for his part in the plot to assassinate Hitler. His words have never been more relevant and we need his moral clarity and courage more than ever before.
April 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today is 80 years since the Nazis executed Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was imprisoned for his part in the plot to assassinate Hitler. His words have never been more relevant and we need his moral clarity and courage more than ever before.
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Seven-year-old Betty from Manchester wrote a letter to the Prime Minister about more safe spaces for walking, wheeling and cycling 🚶👩🦽🚲
@chrisboardman.bsky.social met her to talk about how it will make us all happier, healthier and greener: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWu... 🌲🌍
@chrisboardman.bsky.social met her to talk about how it will make us all happier, healthier and greener: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWu... 🌲🌍
Betty, aged seven, wants more walking, wheeling and cycling
YouTube video by Active Travel England
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Seven-year-old Betty from Manchester wrote a letter to the Prime Minister about more safe spaces for walking, wheeling and cycling 🚶👩🦽🚲
@chrisboardman.bsky.social met her to talk about how it will make us all happier, healthier and greener: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWu... 🌲🌍
@chrisboardman.bsky.social met her to talk about how it will make us all happier, healthier and greener: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWu... 🌲🌍
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Microfinance from CARE International UK
CARE International's microfinance lending initiative
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March 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Microfinance from CARE International UK
CARE International's microfinance lending initiative
lendwithcare.org
March 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Lend your support to entrepreneurs in low-income countries through @lendwithcare.bsky.social Make your first loan for free with this link! lendwithcare.org/referral/WEX...
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15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
March 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Suggestions for cycling / urban planning / public transport tourism in the Netherlands please?
March 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Suggestions for cycling / urban planning / public transport tourism in the Netherlands please?
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From ‘I need an SUV’ to ‘I am the SUV.’
March 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
From ‘I need an SUV’ to ‘I am the SUV.’