Tom Pike

In 2025, there were 1.5m daily cycle journeys in London, equivalent to nearly half of daily Tube journeys.

Evidence shows that London-wide, cycling infrastructure is effective in reducing risk exposure:  Protected cycling infrastructure reduces injury risk to people cycling by 40-65%.  Around 33% of all cycling in London occurs on Cycleways, but only 15% of cycle casualties.  76% of people cycling feel safe on Cycleways compared to 40% feeling safe on other roads.  70% of Cycleway users felt safer after the introduction of the Cycleway.

Road safety factors are more likely to be attributed to the driver of (recorded in 2024) the other vehicle than people cycling, with three of top five factors relating to behaviour of other drivers. • People cycling undertaking an illegal turn and/or not complying with traffic lights is a factor in only 3.7% of all collisions resulting in a cycling fatal or serious injury (same prevalence as drivers undertaking illegal turns and/or not complying with traffic lights).

A 2023 analysis showed that in the 2016-22 period, we saw a greater reduction in risk in boroughs where the Cycleway network expanded the most. Conversely, risk increased most in boroughs with no or limited investment in Cycleways.

Some interesting London cycling stats in this TfL FOI, if that's your thing tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

This is grossly unfair. Your father was a tabloid monster LONG before his death, from at least the Board of Trade report in 1971 onwards.

Yes, sectarian Muslims voting for a white female plumber from a party led by a gay Jewish man... Am guessing none of the other parties will learn the right lessons from this result for their own different reasons.

And that 30% of voters willing to go to Reform/Tory/Advance/Restore is starting to look like it's closer to a ceiling than a floor. British voters can see through Farage's lies, and his claims to be different from the Tories who have wrecked Britain while he's let half of them join his party.

TRAM TRACKS, CYCLISTS & CRASHES:

About two-thirds of Sheffield's tram network is on-road, with a lot of cycle crashes as a result.

In search of information regarding solutions to this that have been or are being trialled or implemented elsewhere.

Grateful for retweets to extend reach.

I note that Democrats now look at Trump the same way David Mitchell looks at Bob Mortimer.

"Well it's obviously mostly madness. What exactly do you exoect me to do about it?"

If only we weren’t so siloed in our budgeting.

The gains for public health budgets from enabling a physically active population are immense.

Safe routes for cycling are an investment in health more than a cost for transport budgets. 👇

U.S. Military Deployment in the Middle East in Anticipation of a Possible Military Operation Against Iran - 17 Feb 2026 Created by ®EGYOSINT X Abraham Lincoln CSG Gerald R. Ford CSG On Deployment Turkey Syria Iraq Egypt. Iran UAE USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier USS WinstonS. Churchill USS Bainbridge USS Mahan Air Defense Deployement ed Kuwait Bahrain • Qatar. Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Arabian Sea Created by BEGYOSINT Approx 160 flights by C-17A (Since 16th Jan) Djibouti Gulf of Aden (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 18x flights by C-5M (KSA, Qatar & Djibouti) 20-22x KC-135 & KC-46 Tankers +24 F-15E (Muwaffaq Salti AB) ★ Numerous Flights by C-130H/J 1x RC-135 SIGINT (Chania, Greece) 30x F-35A fighters (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 4x MC/HC-130J (2x Muwaffaq Salti AB) (2x Diego Garcia NSF) 3x EA-11A BACN (Prince Sultan AB) F-16 deployed at the UAE & KSA WC-135R Nuke Sniffer (Midenhall, UK) 2x E-3 Sentry AWACS (Midenhall, UK) 6x EA-18GA (Muwaffaq Salti AB) + USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier (Arabian Sea) USS Frank E. Petersen (Arabian Sea) USS Spruance (Arabian Sea) USS Michael Murphy (Arabian Sea) Other assets in the ME USS Roosevelt (Mediterranean Sea) USS McFaul (Persian Gulf) USS Mitscher (Persian Gulf) USS Delbert D. Black (Red Sea) Ohio-class (unknown location) THAAD At least one additional battery (KSA or Qatar) MIM-104 Patriot Multiple battaries across the region 土 +99 C-17A & C-5M flights transferring AD Battaries By @TheIntelFrog

This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

The detailed and informative replies to the quoted post show how this site can be very good for discussing news events.

No site is perfect, but Bluesky has many merits.

And this sort of engagement is better than I had with 1/4 million followers on Twitter.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

business that is the reason the barriers were installed: fuck i can't drive over these barriers

If you can spare a few minutes to respond to this Home Office consultation on indefinite leave to remain, please do so.

The proposed changes are inhumane and beyond unfair.

ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Again, all of these are conservative values. North sea offshore is amongst the most productive in the world, often closer to 5000 Wh/year per W installed, and modern onshore is often 3000 Wh/W/year. At more realist, less conservative values, this is closer to 17%, or 1/6th of UK current demand.

The 8.3 GW offshore capacity that was secured in Jan adds a further ~9.7% of current demand (at about 3500 Wh/year per W installed (offshore wind is *very* efficient)). So in this two-part auction we have secured 1/8th of total UK demand, to be installed in under 4 years, all at below market prices.

To put some of these numbers in context:
UK electricity demand is currently around 300 TWh/year.

Conservatively, every W of installed capacity produces ~1000 Wh/year (solar)/~2000 Wh/year (on-shore wind).

So this auction provides 7.5 TWh/year, 2.5% of total electricity consumption.

That's the decision to make, certainly. I considered separate front and rear cameras - but eventually opted for a single helmet mounted one for ease. +- for both.

I think it all of those things, but also - he is only sorry that people are stating the things he did. He is not sorry for the doing of them in the first place.

The 2 pieces of footage you have sent, I have to say is truly impressive. What camera system are you using? These 2 individuals have been processed for driving whilst using a mobile device. The footage is excellent, with no ambiguity.

Following up from this - unexpected feedback from police on two recent reports for mobile phone use in dawn light (~7.50am in the last week).

Ive watched this about 100 times.

This is why the internet was invented.

Right here.

Peak content.

I second the "I know you said not on the helmet but..." thoughts. I have a 360 max helmet mounted and it captures everything - plus, when wearing it I feel like I get fewer close passes (subjective, I know, but it is a visible warning). Low light could be better, though - X5 wins on that front.

I don't have a horse in this unimportant race, Kernow Scouse.

It would be interesting to have this same level of voting intention compared directly with the equivalent from the mid 00's, for example. It might show how the age groups are shifting with time i.e. have the 2026 50-64 group become more right leaning than their younger 35-49 selves in say 2005?

“The first hint that something untoward was going on surfaced on July 24,1987, just after Trump returned from the Soviet Union, when an article appeared in a highly unlikely venue, the Executive Intelligence Review, strongly suggested something mysterious was going on between the Kremlin and Trump”

I don't make the rules.

List of cities in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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ONS defines the limits of the latter, boundaries for the former were set out when they became cities (hence Nottingham, which had a population of around 100k less than Sheffield when they became cities, has smaller boundaries)

Bradford is bigger than Liverpool. Nottingham is bigger than Sheffield (both inc suburbs). Bristol has ~20k less people than Liverpool.