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Walkable cities | Cycle lanes | YIMBY | Steering @WalkRideGM

Salford, England
Joined May 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Harry Gray
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Bro 'needs' a 3 tonne car to carry 100kg of soil
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Deonandan
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Um, I strongly suspect that 8 bags of soil could fit in the back of a smart car.
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Salford 2022 vs 2008, incredible
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The bus lane is empty because all the busses and their passengers have already reached their destination
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A sad day for anyone born in the 90s
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Harry Gray
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Hope this catches on outside the US!
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Nathaniel Minor
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Can’t overstate how easy it is to pay for a subway or bus ride in New York now. Tap your phone or a credit card. That’s it.
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'British Eurovision entrant is under the age of 40'
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7 months
Did it ✅ Cycled to London in a day
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Harry Gray
1 year
What the Elizabeth Line would look like across the North of England, connecting Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds or Sheffield Imagine the potential we could untap if the Government invested just a fraction of what London gets Credit: @undertheraedar
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A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation
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David Frost
9 months
It's not a 'problem', it's a good thing. In poorer countries people depend on public transport & bikes. When they get richer they want cars because they bring freedom. Public transport will *never* be good enough for a free people to move around on.
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Harry Gray
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I feel like people are being purposefully terminally online about this Imagine having this outside your window. It's insane
@BenGartside
Ben Gartside
5 months
Who could possibly say what planners and local politicians objected to
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Harry Gray
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Your reminder that this tree stump could be someone's child walking down the pavement If you cannot see it then you are not fit to drive.
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@ChronicleLive
The Chronicle
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'Everyone is getting sick of it' - Tree stump in North Tyneside is causing 'thousands' in car damages
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I'm convinced that half the nation are just miserable sods.
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@gazza_d
Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected]
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Council wanted to create a nicer space with paths, trees, benches and even a book library. Some woman didn't like this so parked he cars on the grass to block it and now it won't happen. Managing to make everyone else's lives a bit more miserable.
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1 year
Was just driving down the road and someone cut me off Why do people think an indicator gives them the right to change lane without looking?
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2 years
Just a small business owner using my cargo bike to skip the rush hour traffic as I deliver my parcels.
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Harry Gray
1 year
Imagine conflating these two activities as the same thing.
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@vismaleaseabike
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1 year
Use your head. Wear a helmet every time you cycle. 🧠 Together with our partner @lazersport , we are raising awareness of the importance of wearing a helmet with a goal to increase helmet use. #useyourhead #parisroubaix
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Harry Gray
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Spoons regularly clean their tap lines, give you a matching glass and the food comes quickly. All for 1/2 the price of a normal pub. What's not to love
@hwallop
Harry Wallop
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JD Wetherspoon – few companies in Britain are so successful, yet so divisive. What's its secret? How come 21.4 million visited a Spoons over the last 6 months? But why have people campaigned to stop one opening in their town? I spent 24 hours in one to find out...🍺🧵
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I've cycled over 400km across Belgium entirely off road. Most of the paths are of this standard or higher. The interncity network here is incredible
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Harry Gray
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Scotland pavement parking campaign
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Harry Gray
5 months
The misconception around the British palette in America is insane
@ExileGrimm
grimm
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I regret to inform everyone that Old El Paso made salsa for people in the UK and Australia and they went 'mild is too spicy' so they needed a level called "extra mild" to satiate their delicate palates
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Step 1: Fly on plane to Manchester Step 2: Close all roads in Manchester city centre for conference Step 3: Leak cancellation of Manchester HS2 leg Step 4: Fly back to London Step 5: Never think about Manchester again
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Harry Gray
1 year
Today I saw something I've waited so many years to see in Manchester So many kids were cycling independently to school. Change can happen!
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Harry Gray
1 year
Kerbs are the most underrated part of our active travel revolution When used well, they give an incredible amount of priority to walkers and cyclists at every junction
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Harry Gray
10 months
Please tell me again how guard rail is designed to protect pedestrians 🥴
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Harry Gray
1 year
Finally found it
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Harry Gray
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The end of a monster? HMRC just closed a massive loophole causing pollution and danger on our streets From 1st July 2024 tax for pickup trucks will increase from £60 to £291 per month for 20% rate tax payers and up from £120 to £582 for 40% rate tax payers as a company car
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Tweets in 1830s: 'Why do all new urban developments in the UK look like this?'
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@samofsamshire
𝓢𝓪𝓶𓄂
11 months
Why do all new urban developments in the UK look like this?
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Harry Gray
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The cycling roundabout is officially fully complete
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Harry Gray
3 months
Time to start ripping out some of those empty car lanes!
@CS3Count
London Cycleway C3/CS3's Crowdsourced Count
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Evening! London's cycleway #C3 #CS3 on Victoria Embankment 1, 2, 3, 4, ....
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Train etiquette is a hill I will die on No you cannot get on the train before others have disembarked No you cannot listen to tiktoks out loud in the quiet carriage
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I'm cycling from Manchester to London today I'm 100km in - stopping in Burton for some food Here's what sunrise in the Peak District looked like
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Harry Gray
11 months
Nice to see this graphic in the Telegraph
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@CyclingLawLDN
Rory McCarron
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This is much welcomed and absolutely necessary .
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If this building was built in your city would you live there?
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Hundreds of kids taking over the streets of Manchester!
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Harry Gray
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Stevenson Square Render vs reality
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Harry Gray
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@willieckerslike we haven't got google yet either!
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Harry Gray
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I'm old enough to remember grass
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These little delivery robots are absurd
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Harry Gray
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Tax the shit out of SUVs so they become impossible to own. They kill kids They kill cyclists They kill the planet
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Harry Gray
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Bus stop bypasses are amazing!
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Harry Gray
3 months
So, I’ve been eating this for breakfast every morning in England for about nine days and I’ve lost 3 pounds. The food in America is just poison.
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Another erosion of driving etiquette is stopping for pedestrians on zebra crossings When did we let this happen in society?
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This is what it's like to cross the road from my work to the coop
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35k likes on tiktok of a video complaining about someone literally just cycling down the road
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@Didymograptus1 Where do you suppose people live then?
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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
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My daily commute involves a small stretch next to the motorway with just a painted line for protection! This is a vital link for many people, links segregated infrastructure in Salford to Manchester, yet there are no plans to add protection
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Thanks I hate it
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People who still drive in London given the incredible mix of alternatives are increasingly annoying
@PrincesaAyesha
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Driving in London is a joke. Hour and 38mins to drive 11miles???? I will scream.
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Tech bros with 2,000kg Tesla's worrying about micro-plastic in their fridge
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@CocoDeAqua
BERSERK COCO 🥥🪓
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Glass containers with wooden lids 🪵   It’s the little things that make the difference when you’re avoiding micro-plastics.
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@Ali_Malik Very sad to see such ignorance on display. Back to school!
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People learning that murder is legal when you use a car
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You learn something quite interesting when you cycle outside every day to work It doesn't actually rain as much as you'd expect.
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Harry Gray
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Incredible to think cities in the UK pretend this sort of radical transformation is impossible or delusional
@DavidZipper
David Zipper
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In Paris, just 4.3% -- 4.3%!! -- of the trips within the colored areas now occur in private cars. Source:
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Harry Gray
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Your reminder that the £22m given to Greater Manchester to survive in Tier 3 is 63 times less money than a roundabout in Bedford. SIXTY THREE
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Harry Gray
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If you consume too much Daily Mail your brain will turn into boomer goo
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Apparently I can't ride a cargo bike, because I need a car to tow a caravan with my 82 year old in laws, one with advanced Parkinson's and one with a wheel chair
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Tech bros won't stop until they solve problems we already have the solution to
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Harry Gray
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Not wanting sex offenders roaming the streets does not make you right wing
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Harry Gray
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I feel like granting asylum to a sex offender shouldn't be something we do as a country.
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One of these maps is useful for understanding car ownership and the other isn't. Guess which one is being used to prove that 'poor people drive'
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They said London couldn't be a cycling city and now it is the cycling capital of Europe
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A tragic story in two acts
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One of these vehicles has a battery 120 times less efficient than the other - yet both are used to take one person and their belongings 5km to work every day. Which do you think people believe will save the planet?
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Just days after the election lefties in London have turned it into a massive Low Traffic Neighbourhood
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Call to pause Manchester car trial after cars left in the pavement
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How the designers think you'll use the cycling roundabout vs how you'll actually use it.
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Can you imagine any other western country that would cancel the only high speed rail between its three largest cities?
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Is there a better feeling that cycling past 100s of drivers in the rush hour traffic, with the wind in your hair and sun out! Who'd be a driver
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Just cycling my cactus home in the sun on protected cycle lanes
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E scooters and e bikes are restricted to 15mph but you can drive a car 130mph and kill a mother and child without restriction
@SkyNews
Sky News
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Driver who filmed himself speeding before fatal crash with pregnant mother-of-two is jailed See more 👇
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I have a theory about painted cycle lanes This one specific lane with hatching works like no other painted cycle lane I've seen The hatchings seem to trigger something in drivers to stay away from the cycle lane
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Harry Gray
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Like if you hate Manchester Christmas Markets
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Harry Gray
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Is texting on your phone stood a meter back from the crossing 'waiting to cross'
@wideAwake2023
simon 💎
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Woman waiting to cross the Elephant Castle cycle lane, do cyclist stop as per the law ⁦ @JeremyVineOn5 ⁩ ⁦ @OWandsworth ⁩ ⁦ @Telegraph
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@samhailes which London can you be more specific ?
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So in the first video apparently I was misbehaving by not stopping and allowing drivers a chance to see me waiting to cross What excuses will they come up with now?
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In Maastricht, they've turned an old flyover into a museum to remember the mistakes of the past!
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Bus gate on Bridge Street going well
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Tram should have been more aware of surroundings I mean if you drive on a road with cars you have to expect they'll turn into you
@gay_reactions
reaction encyclopedia
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Train driver running cars over.
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Peak UK cycling infrastructure
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Think I've perfected my ideal city housing. Retaining character of red brick, whilst fulfilling modern desire for balcony living Built it
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Demand for SUVs is so large that companies have stopped selling any other type of car. SUVs are the biggest threat to our transport climate ambitions
@volvocars
Volvo Cars
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@MrJamesMay Hi James - we're so sorry to have ruined your life (again) ☹️ To clarify, we're still making saloon and estate cars. This is purely a sales decision in the UK market, where demand for SUVs is especially strong.
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My friend just sent me this video from the Netherlands. It’s so frustrating we can do stuff like this in the UK.
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Happy ULEZ day to those who celebrate!
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Why do we use materials in construction without consideration to how they age?
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And people wonder why we stopped letting kids outside on their own
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Driving instructor explains how you deal with a cyclist approaching a roundabout
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Imagine the brass neck to message me this.
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How on earth is a vehicle this large legal.
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Weird because in the UK it's really popular
@Carnage4Life
Dare Obasanjo🐀
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Self checkout is a poster child for how automation as a cost cutting measure can backfire. Retailers are rolling it back everywhere. Dollar General is eliminating it. Walmart plans to charge a subscription and Target will limit it to ten items or less
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Absolutely impossible to know that there is a bus gate ahead
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Harry Gray
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NO ENTRY 😂
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The difference between Barcelona's pedestrian revolution and Manchester's concrete maze
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Oh I do love to get home quicker than everyone driving!
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Ghent is my favourite city - in this short video I explain why
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Build cycle lanes you can talk to friends in!
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Here is what AI thinks Manchester could look like when pedestrianised
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The demise of the UK over the last few decades can be seen through the way we treat our public spaces It's abysmal
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Cars aren't working anymore
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