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Danny Williams
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Transport and journeys, working on policy things. Based London, Yorkshire and Sussex. (Available in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷a bit of🇨🇭and learning 🇪🇸)
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Cricket was on at the Oval in London this week. It was pouring with rain. This is just one of five parking bays for the cricket fans to get to the ground (unfortunately taking most of the pavement rather than taking up storage spaces on the road. Is it time we talked about e-vehicle storage space?)
Shows maybe 100 rental bikes parked on a pavement. There is a main road along the side. It is raining. There is a tree canopy over the road
August 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m not sure I have ever seen this sign used in the UK anywhere else. Seen it plenty of times overseas
Shows a lane with bushes and trees either side. There is a signpost with a round blue sign showing a car and a bicycle
May 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
More shots of the Chertsey - Woking cycle path (shared cycle path and foot way. As you can see, Surrey County Council has not been particularly interested in maintaining the asset
Shows a footway with a white lane down the middle. A man is walking towards the camera. There is a cycle lane on the right side of the white line. Almost all of the cycle way is covered in vegetation. There are trees on either side
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
There is a cycle path between Chertsey and Woking in Surrey. This section of it nearly killed me today. I was approaching slowly when a car came out from the right. There’s simply zero room to brake safely in that context
Shows a shared use cycle path and foot way that is slightly wider than my bicycle handle bars. There is a tall fence on the right. A driveway ahead and to the left a busy and fast main road with cars on it
May 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New look urban mobility in London. A cargo bike delivery on one side of the street. A cargo bike heading back into town on the other. And a large goods lorry in the background
Shows a wide road. Skyscrapers in the background. Victorian buildings either side. A cargo bike delivery on one side of the street. A cargo bike heading back into town on the other. And a large goods lorry in the background
May 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The City of London (the financial centre) has seen a massive change in how its streets are used. Since 2019:
• - 24% private motors (exc buses + coaches)
• - 15% freight vehicles
• + 60% cycling
• - 30% walking + wheeling
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi... via @lastnotlost.bsky.social
Graph shows total motor vehicles in City of London 1999 - 2024. In 1999, there were 198,000 motor vehicles a day and 8,000 people on cycles. In 2024, there were 59,000 motor vehicles a day and 52,000 people on cycles
April 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Birds-eye view of the road works on Lambeth Bridge, London. As you can see, the bridge has one way for motor vehicles , the other lane is being worked on. There are temporary cycle tracks in both directions during the road works
The pic is taken from the top deck of a bus looking directly in front along the length of the bridge. There are office buildings in the background.
April 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This used to be a two way street for motor vehicles. Now a small scheme is being built to make it a two-way quiet route for people cycling and one way for cars (Clapham, London)
Pic taken from top deck of a London bus. Looking sideways late a side street. There are pics and bars on both sides with many outside seats. One side of the side street is now a cycle lane. There is a traffic island in the middle. And an exit lane for cars to the right of it. People are walking along the street in the same direction as the bus is travelling
April 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Pavements are for….? Bins! 13 bins permanently stored on the pavement outside this house in London (all of them for the same building which is divided into six small apartments)
Pic taken from across the street. On the other side of the street is the wall of a house with windows. It is a Victorian house. There are 13 wheelie bins along the wall of the house and on the pavement.
March 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Before and after: This used to just be a bit of nondescript street. Now it’s a micro space for people. As I walked past, this kid walked up and immediately started playing. Amazing what happens when you design city spaces for people. Not just for cars.
Shows a boy playing on a small play space which takes up half the width of a street. The other half of the street is a cycle lane with a cyclist on it. There is a wall along the side of the road. And terraced houses further down the street Shows the same street a few years ago. It is a two lane street with some road jumps and a few cars parked in it
March 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
When I used to work here, this space used to be a private car park. And now, well, it’s rather nicer. Chancery Lane, London
Shows benches and tubs with greenery in a space between office blocks. There are lots of people sitting on the benches and it is sunny Shows the same space as the previous picture with the space between two office blocks. The surface area is grey tarmac. There are car parking spaces and some rubbish skips on the surface
March 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
First glimpse of the new cycle track being installed at the junction south side of Lambeth Bridge, London
I am standing on the pavement. To the side of the pavement is a new cycle track with lanes for heading in different directions at the junction which is just behind me. The track is slightly lower than the pavement. To the side of the track are lanes for motor vehicles. And then on the other side of the road is a line of office blocks and tall buildings
February 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Not the best photo. But super to see so many kids cycling to school on the safe cycle paths out in inner Bristol this morning.
Shows two girls on bikes. They have cycled over a bridge on the right. Behind them is a river and behind that some houses
February 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Pre work wander around Bristol this morning. Very noticeable how bus stops in the centre almost all have raised platforms to enable easier boarding
Shows a street with shops either side of the the buildings are 3 storeys tall. There is a bus stop in the foreground. The pavement buts into the road and is slightly raised. Behind the bus stop is a planted area and behind that is a cycle lane and pavement
February 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Travelling all around England this month. Can’t help but notice a huge increase in these in lots of cities. In this case, taking up 2/3 of the footway on a very busy pedestrian route between Manchester Piccadilly and Oxford Road. Is this a good thing for enabling walking?
Shows a digital advertising screen on a pavement in a city centre. The screen takes up 3 paving slabs width of a pavement that is 5 slabs winde. People are walking past the screen. The road has four wide lanes for cars
February 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Off to Manchester next week. Thinking of going for a swim at the aquatics centre after work in the evening. It's a 15-20 minute walk. The routes google maps is giving me look, erm, inviting.......
Shows a path with grass banks either side. There is a road on the right at the top of the grass bank. In front is a dark pedestrian subway. A car drives over the top. The walls of the subway are painted with graffiti. There is no obvious lighting.
February 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Spotted on in a cafe window. You see a lot of these sorts of signs around, campaigning for slower traffic speeds where there are lots of people around.
Poster in shop window with the words "Support a safer school run. Half your stopping distance by dropping from 30 to 20mph. Ask to extend to Bramley. Support by 31st"
February 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Lots of these bollard e-chargers popping up in parts of London. Would be nicer off the pavement but kind of practical….
Shows a pavement. There is a bollard on the edge of the pavement. A wire connected to the bollard is connected to a car parked next to it, in the road.
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Significant improvement to journey times for motor vehicle drivers on the bridges/tunnels into / out of Manhattan, since congestion pricing was introduced. on.ft.com/3CebJXZ
Shows traffic speeds vs equivalent week in 2024 morning and evening rush hours on the Manhattan Bridges and Tunnels. 80%+ faster on the Holland Tunnel in the morning and 55% faster in the evenings. Lincoln Tunnel 70% and 60%. Queensboro Bridge 40% and 80% etc. Three of the bridges are slightly slower. All the rest are faster
January 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s quite fascinating just how many people are getting to work using shared e-bikes in central London. This is the morning parking situation in one street in Westminster, London
January 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Pavement or digital advertising space? Each advertising company gets its own competing digital advertising space
Shows a digital advertising board in a placement. There is a competing advertising board a couple of metres behind it. And another one a couple of metres behind that
January 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Haymarket, London. As far as I can work out, the only route to cycle from the West End to Parliament Square. 3 one way lanes of extremely fast moving traffic. The cycle route is won the middle of the three lanes. Pretty on foot. Not so pretty by bike. Downright scary
Nighttime city scene. Shows three wide lanes of traffic. Stone buildings along either side and the lights of Piccadilly Corcus in the background. People have to cycle in the middle of the three lanes to access the cycle route
January 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New housing in central London. Right next to two underground stations. Love how pedestrians will have to now have to run across this massively wide (and brand new) entry / exit road into the Nine Elms development
Picture taken from main road facing a side road. In the background are residential tower blocks. The side road is two lanes wide entry and two lanes wide exit. There is a traffic island. A man is cycling past the side road
January 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
London pavements are increasingly turning into spaces for bright LED advertising boxes. This is 100m stretch of pavement in Stockwell, south London. Three LED advert boxes, one older advert box, one derelict phone box which has never had a functioning phone, just adverts on it
January 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
View from the London bus. It’s a bit sad that two rows of parked cars on this busy bus route means two buses can’t actually get past each other
Shows view out of the top deck of a London bus. The road is straight with houses either side and tree lined. There is a row of parked cars either side. A queue of cars heading the other way and a bus holding back in the opposite direction
December 24, 2024 at 10:11 AM