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DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

Vija Celmins, Concentric Bearings C, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1078669

The bicycles used by La Poste in Paris. After several years of heavy use, they’re refurbished in social reintegration workshops and then sold to the general public in a lighter version.

💛 Half‑term can get pricey, so we’ve rounded up the best Kids Eat for Free or Less spots across Hertfordshire to make days out a little easier. 🔃 Save this for next week’s adventures and share it with anyone who could use a helping hand. orlo.uk/o85xf

Living with an urban planner (Emily Bernstein in the New Yorker).

Cherry Vann becomes UK’s first female archbishop after election in Wales

A cartoon by Adam Sacks. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

You see that yellow cargo bikes? 🧐 It's basically the "roadside assistance" truck in cities for cars AND bikes in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

I wish cities had more calm, casual Third Places designed primarily for adults. Spaces where you can go alone or be around others, free from the noise of kids, alcohol, or loud music—a quiet refuge that balances personal time and a sense of community.

Rush hour in the centre of the city doesn't have to be loud

Electoral Reform Society claims to do serious analysis, yet in this chart they use an unreasonable 50% line (shown blue) to how much support an MP should get in a *multi-party* election. Apply a more sensible 40% line (shown green), and 70+% of Labour and Lib Dem MPs have local majority credibility

Staalstraat, Amsterdam in 1981 and today. Now a cycle only street, which helps to reduce the amount of motor traffic coming into the city.

Amazing data - perceptions of Aus fossil fuel industry [employment / contribution to GDP / tax contributions] vs reality - from @australiainstitute.org.au's annual 'Climate of the Nation' survey What $billions in advertising + compliant cultural capture buys you -->> apo.org.au/node/329142

Under-appreciated election fact... Number of MPs with majority greater than 10,000: Labour: 115 Lib Dem: 25 Conservative: 5 Green: 2 Plaid: 2

Using a car costs way more - in both private and public costs - than public transport and other modes. When our government decides to invest in motorways over public transport and to prioritise sprawling car dependent suburbs, they are actively choosing to force up the cost of transport.

Did you know that The Economist can not just be read on paper and digitally, but comes out as an #audiobook every week? Read by British actors, not AI, it is one of our best service to readers I think.

Advisors told Ljubljana’s mayor that pedestrianizing downtown would be political suicide. Eighteen years later, he’s still mayor.

It makes tons of sense. People don’t desire to be flanked by loud, dangerous, stinky cars. They desire to be around people, quieter spaces, and have free flowing access to roam about.

I'd like to submit this picture I took in Tokyo in 2019 of an older woman riding her nifty trike through the streets of (I think) the Ueno neighborhood. In utter safety and confidence.

I really do not understand economics 🤷‍♂️

Okay, seriously, we're at 9.4K. Can you help us get to 10K by lunchtime? My boss would go ballistic if we managed it. Please and thanks. 🇪🇺

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When you're due in the Colosseum at 10, but can't resist popping into a NT café on the way #GladiatorII

Surprised to know that the overwhelming cause of the massive increase in renewables is China? 'China was the leader in renewable energy installations, with a capacity of around 1,453 gigawatts. The U.S., in second place, had a capacity of around 388 gigawatts' www.statista.com/statistics/2....