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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 5h

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...! 😍

A group of boys playing football in a park with a load of bikes lying down on the grass behind the goal

Two young teenage boys cycling along a segregated cycle path with a park to one side and the sea to the other. There is also a parallel footpath with people walking dogs etc.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 7h

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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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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

A photo of a beautiful almond croissant and a cup of tea on a cafe table. Also a brown paper bag which contains a freshly baked sourdough baguette for later, yum yum.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

Photo of a black and tan sighthound lying on a sofa resting his chin on a cushion.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What I wore on my bike today: My new DMs from Vinted, I love them. Plus jeans and a teeshirt, and old faithful jacket. #bikechic

Me on a cargo bike. Wearing navy leather doc martens, pale blue jeans, a blue teeshirt and a teal corduroy casual jacket.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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! 🙂

A roadside flower bed at a traffic calming feature which is blooming with yellow and orange marigolds and pink cosmos. A woman dressed in yellow stands next to it holding a litter picker.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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 🤢

Photo of a halved avocado which looked fine on the outside but is rotten inside.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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)

A highway construction site at a T junction. There are lots of orange plastic barriers around the site. The original kerb line on one side of the junction is still visible, and the new kerbs have been set out in position . The distance pedestrians will have to cross the side road is going to be much shorter, and vehicles will have to slow down to make the turn. Opposite the side road, on the other side of the main road, is a road which has an historic modal filter. This is going to be opened up to allow cycles through, and a parallel zebra will enable people to cross the main road safely.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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

Photo of an IBC tank next to a greenhouse in my garden

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What I'm wearing on my bike today (on my birthday!) 🥳 My new favourite jazzy trousers, and my old favourite corduroy jacket, with a cute pin which was a birthday gift from my sister ❤️ Lovely September morning ☺️ #bikechic

Bike riding selfie of me, a white woman with longish blonde hair. I'm wearing blue rimmed sunglasses, a helmet, a teal corduroy jacket with a red heart shaped pin badge, a pale green top and blue and navy striped jeans.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What I wore on my bike today... waterproofs! First time in months, felt weird, didn't like it. #bikechic

Photo looking down at me riding my bike - I'm wearing a purple helmet, bright yellow hi Vis waterproof jacket and black waterproof trousers.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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! 😭

Screenshot from the Met office website showing more than 95% chance of heavy rain all morning.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shame the cycle parking didn't match up to the standard of the route there...!

Photo of some wheel bender type cycle parking under a perspex cover.

My bike locked to one of the vertical uprights, rather than just locking my front wheel up in the intended manner.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On my way to my physio appointment at the hospital, lovely 😊

Handle bar view of a bidirectional cycle track with a red surface and a bus stop

Another view of the same cycle track, further down the road.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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 😋

Photo of 4 and a half small bottles containing a dark cherry red liquid.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hooray, the headline appears to have been changed!

Original headline on BBC news website referring to e-bikes

Amended headline on BBC news website referring to e-motorbikes

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What I wore on my bike today: A black teeshirt, sunflower trousers and a terribly mis-matching jacket because there was a little bit of a chill on my way home from book club 😊 #bikechic

Selfie taken as I'm riding home along the seafront. I'm wearing baggy trousers which have a bold sunflower print all over them
A plain black top and a yellow hi Vis waterproof jacket.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Bonus TfL moquette content, as it seems to be trending (on Bluesky at least, which I'm not sure counts!) 😁 Do you know which lines these are from? Answers in the alt text!

Photo of the seat fabric on a victoria Line underground train

Photo of the seating fabric on a northern line London underground train

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Back in Blighty, and now back home in Dorset, very tired but happy after a fun few days away with my boys. I really recommend a trip to Ghent to anyone, it's such a nice city in itself and so well connected to other places too. Lovely architecture, pleasant streets, waffles, beer and chocolate! 😁

A photo of the front of Kings Cross Station in London

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Homeward bound 😢 Currently on the top deck of a double-decker train (the novelty of these never fails to please me) bound for Brussels-Zuid. I do love travelling by train and looking out of the window at all the towns and villages and countryside that pass by 😊

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Saw the impressive cycle parking under Gent-St-Pieters station this evening too, it's huge! I took this photo at gone 11:30pm so I presume that many of these bikes "live" here for commuters into Ghent to use for their onward journey to work from the station.

Photo of a modern and brightly lit underground bike parking facility, with hundreds - or thousands - of bikes parked stretching far into the distance.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today we caught a train to Oostkamp, near Bruges, to go to a music (metal) festival, at my 14-year old's request. Great fun but I am knackered after 8+ hours on my feet plus walking at either end. I was a bit worried about the journey home late at night with two kids, but all went fine 👍

Photo of a member of a band called The Casualties playing his guitar on stage. He's wearing slashed black trousers, a black vest with white and red writing on it, and has a white mohican approx a foot high!

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Got the train to nearby Lokeren this evening to watch the local football team play Eupen. Cool water feature and bunny sculptures in the pretty town centre. Less impressed by this frankly terrifying pedestrian crossing over a very busy and wide road...!

A large water feature which looks like crazy paving - lots of angular shaped slabs which have water running between them.

A very bland, four lane road with cycle lanes either side of it. A basic zebra crossing crosses all the lanes in one go. There are no belisha beacons like we'd have in the UK to make the crossing more visible to drivers. In fact, in the UK this would almost certainly be a signalised crossing.

Large modernistic stainless steel rabbit sculptures, three of them, in a paved public open space. On the side of the building there is a mural depicting a rabbit apparently falling from the sky. Or it may be a hare. Perhaps the sculptures are supposed to be hares too, I don't know.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We haven't hired bikes here - everything is very walkable for the few days we're here. Plus I'd be nervous about my kids cycling here - very busy with peds, not much motor traffic but also not much dedicated cycling infrastructure. Cobbled streets,& the thing I'd be most worried about - tram tracks!

A row of cyclists follow closely behind a city tram in Ghent. Theyre taking advantage of the clear path that the tram creates between the many meandering pedestrians (tourists!)

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There are many, many cargo bikes here, including lots of brands/models that I've never seen at home. E-bikes also very popular - and it never fails to astound me how people leave them locked only to themselves, out on the street. At home they'd be stolen in 5 mins!

City intersection with no motor traffic visible, but two cargo bikes are being ridden past.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Final photo for this evening - this amused me 😊 The challenges of moving house when you have large pieces of furniture and when the apartments are very old with narrow staircases and no elevators!

A moving lorry parked in a street next to a three or four storey residential building with shops beneath. The lorry has a special lifting device attached to the back of it, and a large wooden dresser is being lifted out of an upper window.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So much fantastic architecture, which we enjoyed looking at as we wandered the streets all afternoon (despite persistent rain, which was a novelty given two months at home without it!) Lots of bridges, and so many lovely bikes everywhere! 🤩 Street maintenance an issue here, however, as at home.

A photo looking along a canal from a bridge with an ornate metal parapet. Old, tall buildings front the water. A traditional style electric bike is parked next to the parapet - it's turquoise with a bench seat on the back and a metal rack on the front.

A pavement which should be entirely of stone slabs, but has obviously been dug up at some point and the repair has been made, badly, in asphalt. It's very uneven and looks pretty rubbish.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fewer cars in the city centre means less car parking is needed. Cafe tables and bike parking takes its place. Where people have driven, there are several underground public car parks. The one nearest us costs €40 per 24 hours... That's how you discourage driving!

A typical Ghent street. There are tram tracks, restaurant tables and chairs in what could have been on street car parking spaces, and a large toast rack of bike parking.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There are lots of traffic free streets, but many that are restricted in other ways, for example one way for general traffic, with cycles, buses and taxis allowed in both directions. A good way of making driving more difficult without preventing access by car impossible.

A photo of a street with a large church in the background. The road is marked out such that general traffic goes in one direction, shown with arrows. A white line down the middle of the road separates traffic from movement in the opposite direction, which is clearly marked as bus, taxi, cycles and mopeds.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I didn't tell my children this before we came, as the eye-rolling would have been too much to bear, but I've been dying to visit Ghent to see the results of their traffic circulation plan - an intervention banning through traffic from their city centre - introduced in a single night in 2017.

A sign indicating the start of a restricted traffic zone, no entry for vehicles except for cyclists, moped riders, and permit holders (vergunninghouders). A blue sign underneath indicates a low traffic shared space where children may be playing and pedestrians have priority.

A photo of a pleasant looking street with no motor vehicles visible. A parent and child are cycling side by side. A blue sign indicates the presence of a junction, and that the road is a fietsstraat, or bicycle street .

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Eventually made it to Gent-St-Pieters, found a tram (easier said than done as loads of roadworks outside the station), miraculously got off at the correct stop, then walked in the wrong direction for a bit...and at last found our home for the week 😊 A little evening mooch and it's all rather lovely.

A twilight photo looking along a car free lane between buildings, with chairs, tables and bikes outside. One of the buildings forms an arch over the alleyway. Mounted above the arch is an illuminated figure, possibly the virgin Mary or some other biblical or saintly figure.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On our 5th train of the day (including two Tube trains), this one from Brussels to Ghent. Boys nonchalant as usual! 😅

Two teen/tween boys standing on a train. One is absorbed in his phone, the other listening to heavy metal on his headphones and staring out of the window.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Evil cycling lobby on tour! 😁 (I can't remember who designed/sold these teeshirts but it remains an old favourite!)

Selfie of me on the platform at St Pancras in front of a Eurostar train. I'm wearing a burgundy teeshirt with Evil Cycling Lobby lifetime member printed on the front of it.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm off to Ghent today! 😍 First step - walk to my local train station to catch a train to London.

Photo of my local rail station platform. Looks much like every other urban station in England!

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A little jaunt across town today for a site meeting and went past the AFC Bournemouth stadium where they are in a race against time to get their expansion works completed by the start of the season... 😬

A photo of the side of one of the football stadium stands, which has AFC Bournemouth written across it. There is heras fencing, various machines, construction materials and a large yellow crane in front of it.

A photo of an incomplete steel structure which is being constructed to infill one corner of the stadium to increase its capacity.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today on my bike I wore: A floaty thin cotton top and *whispers* cycling shorts because I have to admit they are actually pretty comfy! 😱 #bikechic

Selfie of me riding my bike. I'm wearing a bright pink short sleeved top and slightly shiny tight black cycling shorts. And trainers with white socks.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What I'm wearing on my bike today: not shorts!! It's finally a little bit cooler for a couple of days, which is rather nice. Just a quick trip out on the cargo bike today to buy 25kg of dog food 😁 #bikechic

Photo of my lower half riding my cargo bike which has two shopping bags in the front bucket. I'm wearing pale blue cropped jeans and red sandals.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What I'm wearing on my bike today: A cycling jersey and padded shorts because for once I'm actually doing some "proper" cycling! 😱 #bikechic

A selfie of me riding my bike along a rough countryside track with several other women behind me. I'm wearing a plum coloured helmet and a colourful floral cycling jersey, and sunglasses .

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What a great mix of different types of bike at the beach this morning. Mostly ridden by women, I should add!

Various cargo bikes of different types, shapes and sizes parked in a row alongside each other on the promenade next to the beach.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Bike twins! 🤩 I do love a black and yellow colourway.

A black cargo bike with yellow trim parked next to a yellow cruiser style bike with black trim. They're parked next to a sandy beach.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bike is best when you live by the beach... 😎

Photo of a man riding a bike towing a trailer which is carrying a kayak. He's cycling along a segregated seafront cycle path with the sun shining above.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

What I wore riding my bike today: A changing robe over my wet swimming costume, because it's easier just to shower and change back at home 😊 #bikechic

A bad selfie looking down at what I'm wearing. Which is bare legs, pumps, and a dark blue dry robe. I'm standing next to my cargo bike.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Heading home now with salty hair, sandy feet and baked goods 😊 Happy days!

Front of my cargo bike draped in a beach towel with two brown paper bags on top containing bread and pastries from the bakery.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

No fighting for a car parking space for me 😁 Car park rammed already when I arrived at 6.45am, everyone wants to be on the beach today.

Photo of a cargo bike with a striped beach towel draped over it, parked within a few metres of a sandy beach.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My robins are raising a second brood in their nest! 😍 Last time I was able to check there were two eggs, but the parents are constantly there lately, taking in turns, so I think maybe they've hatched or nearly? I can't tell you how happy these little guys make me!

Poor quality zoomed in photo of a robin sitting on a nest tucked in behind a fence post.

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