@mrmjprice
I design public services by day and chair @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org by night. Also ‘own’ @a38cycleway.bsky.social counters. Let’s rebalance our streets for safe and equitable trips from A to B. 🏳️🌈🚴🏼♂️🟢 📍 Birmingham, UK
A road with lampposts. Attached to each lamppost is a union flag and flag of St George. Each lamppost’s flag is torn to a different length.
Just went past the pictured road. Look at the state of this image now we’ve had winter!
Interesting. It looks like Via/Citymapper also run the demand-responsive buses.
*to clarify, making data (and ticketing?) available for established tools to make greater use of instead of paying for it.
🥴 And now have changed their online journey planner to be a Citymapper iframe. Our journey planning discovery recommended they consider using an external provider - hopefully this isn’t another contract.
I wonder when they'll get around to using westmidlands.gov.uk or westmidlands-ca.gov.uk 🤔
Whatever you experience day-to-day and then double it was my experience of doing stuff within the CA stack. 😅
Also nuts that the base URL goes to an Azure app with no way to recover from the service failure?
Seems curious that you'd not start with control of the domain. It doesn't look consistent with other WMCA domains. Would be easy for that supplier to be disruptive about it.
Just checked bustimes.org/map for someone at a bus stop when an out of service bus flew by. 😭
Political gymnastics all over the shop.
A sign attached to a bus stop pole that informs passengers to scan a QR code for live departure information.
Of course TfWM have installed new signs with proprietary URLs on, so that when the supplier changes, every sign needs changing. And for some reason it couldn’t be printed on timetable posters which are replaced fairly regularly?
Helpful whether you're seeking election or just trying to get your local broken stuff fixed.
Absolutely now that we're into a century of motor regulation and updates to regulations.
Systemic cultural bias thanks to the past century of relentless investment in facilitating motor movement resulting in car dominance.
There's actually some trials about to happen in the north of the city around crossings being green until vehicles approach.
Well yes, quite.
Yep - the report document mentions looking at all contributory factors. Some quick wins that could be quicker - reducing beg button response times, upgrading junction sensors, formalising and realigning crossings, reducing speeds through a range of interventions and removing through-traffic.
In the way that the report has been summarised, yes. In the actual report, there's an extra line around looking at contributory factors, which I would take to mean a safe system review across all road users.
Reposting to bump up the feeds of academic folk!
*laughs in tree branches emerging along the A38 route*
It was something I mentioned in a meeting with the active travel commissioner at the start of the week. And pointed to the lane on Northbrook St to say the project isn’t even finished and it’s been left to decay.
Probably this one then flagging it with the local councillor. I wonder whether the bollards for access control on the cycleway might ruin any mechanical cleaning...
www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20140/e...
Nice ambition but odd implementation on Cardigan Street and Woodcock Street. Nothing says 'let's keep cyclists safe' more than throwing them into the road at a bus stop.
Thank you, much appreciated! ☺️
Foreground: someone sitting at a bench with a laptop open. The contents are blurred. Background: Five Ways Station in Birmingham - a basic long shelter with greenery above and red brick buildings in the distance. Next to the person sitting is their bicycle, propped up against a pillar with their helmet dangling from the handlebars.
And that’s my PhD research application sent off.
If you want to talk about design thinking and participation improving deliverability of transport projects, please reach out. 🙂
Was just trying to do acrobatics with my phone at Five Ways. 🥴
First world problem: the size of smartphones and the specificity of scanners attached to rail station gate lines.
I fear we could generally be a bit clearer with what stage what is at. In Birmingham for some reason the Council keeps running online consultation for TROs, with wording that suggests you can submit views on the scheme. That's not what a TRO statutory consultation is for.
