This is your occasional reminder that #Scotland has a patch of woodland, visible from the primary #motorway into the country, the #M74, which is shaped like a... Well, decide for yourselves.
Anti-terrorist operation introduced in #Moscow:
Mass events cancelled, selective ID checks allowed as well as home searches without warning; surveillance of phone calls and messages; checkpoints can be established anywhere
Kia ora toot friends. (Hello in Māori language)
Tonight I am bringing some #transport, #bikes, #cycling, #urbanism and #antiCar#memes.
I hope you enjoy them and are radicalised like I am. Once you start seeing how we've been trapped by #carDependency you cannot unsee it again.
Let's fight for space for people, cities that are walkable, accesible, clean, green and safe.
Of course, please contribute your own memes to the thread and also radicalise your family, workmates and friends!
But true to form, we have refused to learn from the last few decades of #motorway development. #InducedDemand is the phenomenon that explains that the more lanes we build, the more cars will be out driving on them. That's why widening #roads, adding more lanes ends up being a temporary relief, if anything, and quickly reverts to traffic jams, potentially worse than the ones we had to start with.