Engineer Like A Girl

I finally had a go on a Segway (I've always wanted to) and it was so much fun! 😁

My rather battered sticker remains aposite... 😔

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - 'more research need'.. Well from 2022 to 2025, funded by the NIHR, we (& colleagues) did that research. And we have 10(!!) peer reviewed articles so far, with more on the way. Here's a summary of our papers so far (all open access so get reading):

Nobody's gonna cycle when it rains...

Today's weapon in the war against cars: the humble shopping trolley. This contains groceries for me and my two teenage boys until Friday - it's quite amazing how much you can squeeze in 😁

Forgot I took these photos at the weekend. Until the end of October, this street is closed to motor traffic, enabling the cafes and restaurants to put tables outside and people to mooch about without worrying about cars. Nice 👍

Great news that car-lite towns advocates won't be at all surprised about. Good work @cohsat.bsky.social

Is this a sign that I don't use or care about my car enough...?! 😅

Another day, another casual bit of damage to public infrastructure caused by a driver... 🙄

Great to see so many lads turn up to football training on their bikes. Lots of the younger ones cycled with parents, too, or in/on cargo bikes. I guess having great infrastructure to get there helps...! 😍

Current POV. Sitting on Poole Quay having a cuppa and enjoying the peaceful autumn morning. No traffic noise as the Quay is closed to motor traffic from 1 March to end Oct each year. Just a bit of jazz music, boat noise and the sound of people talking 😊

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She wrote all that code by hand and it landed on the moon. Such an iconic photo. Here’s to Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026). What an incredible and pioneering woman for science. An inspiration to us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A) Yes you can. B) But anyway, nobody is saying that you have to. C) It is perfectly possible to own a car and also do most of your journeys NOT by car (and/or want to reduce how many journeys you drive). D) What do the many people who don't have a car do? So fed up with this ridiculous argument.

My Instagram feed is full of AI generated videos of indignant tradesman riding bikes stacked up with building materials etc. Apparently someone has said something about replacing vans with cargo bikes and they are all very butthurt. And obviously haven't seen what cargo bikes can do! 😂

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.

Truly terrible to be able to walk less than 15 minutes for this. If only I had to drive here...

Snoozing on the sofa in the late afternoon sunshine with my best boy 🥰

Another really interesting pod from Streets Ahead 👍

What an absolute melt.

A bit of litter picking with my local community gardening group and we stopped to admire this little bed which one of us planted up a while back and has finally bloomed after such a hot summer! 🙂

Off topic, but Lidl fruit and veg really is shit. I mostly buy my f&v from elsewhere these days, for this reason, but I picked up this avocado when I was in there yesterday. Cheers guys! Breakfast is ruined 🤢

Whilst I've been in Manchester this week, a project I'm very excited about has kicked off; I went to have a look at it today. It's tightening up of this junction (look closely and you can see the old and new kerb lines) plus a parallel zebra linking across to the road opposite (behind the post box)

Big shout out to everyone at @ategov.bsky.social for a great conference in Manchester over the past two days. I have too many thoughts swirling around in my head about it, so for now I'll just say thanks, and it was really good to catch up with so many friends and colleagues ☺️ (Also: MCR is fab!)

I'm oop north. Air's a bit thin up here.

Just saw a woman riding a Tern HSD dragging another two kids bikes behind her and I wish I was the kind of person who would shout "YEAHHH GURRRLLLL!" across the road but I'm not so I'm just gonna post here that I felt very happy and proud to see it ☺️

"they cannot fade away for every motor-horn." A century-old letter in a newspaper from CTC (now Cycling UK) which demonstrates that some things never change... 🙄

Terrible policy when domestic transport is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases in the UK. We need to be going all-in on helping people AWAY from reliance on fossil fuels, not subsidising their use even more than we already do.

Hard to work out from this article but this was a 84 year old (fit and healthy) pedestrian who was hit and killed by a car driver. (He happened to be a former president of the Chartered Institute of Housing as well as a much loved member of the local community)

I'd never heard this story before. Wow.

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

My dad got me an IBC for my birthday! 😁 My plants shall be watered next summer!

You really don't have to look very hard, for very long, or go back very far, to tot up quite the list of innocent pedestrians killed by motor vehicle drivers...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

Have been sitting in my home office delaying my commute until the rain eases off a bit... It ain't gonna happen, is it?! Guess I'd better dig out the waterproofs for the first time in months! 😭

I live near a school and the kids are evidently starting back today. How can you possibly tell, you may ask...?! 🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🙄

Gah, my son's just headed out to catch the bus into town and it's back to costing me £ 😕

On the one hand, some people want to make it so that kids and other people aren't crushed to death by cars. On the other hand, some people are upset that they might have to pay attention, slow down or be inconvenienced by about 15 seconds. So you can see how it's a "war on cars."

A lovely day today but there's definitely an autumnal turn in the air... I embraced this by making some elderberry syrup which is (apparently) great for coughs and colds. Also tastes nice 😋