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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19h

Hang on, hang on, let me guess.... You don't get groceries, and you are slowly starving to death?

Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19h

As someone who goes to a lot of metal gigs with my teenage son, I can honestly say that metalheads are a lovely, lovely bunch.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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! 😂

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

I mean, the fact that there exists such a thing as a "school pick up line" makes me despair for the human race...!

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

You sound like a bit of a twat so I shan't engage further 😊

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

Firstly, fuel in the UK, where I am, costs roughly double what it costs in the US, where I presume you are from. Secondly, I'm not talking about a minute. I'm talking about people waiting to pick their kids up, sitting there for 20 mins or more.

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

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.

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

I would be so fat if I had a bakery that close to my house! 😂

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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 · 28/09/2026

Another really interesting pod from Streets Ahead 👍

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really interesting listen - thanks! ☺️

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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

That's a balance that the designers have to strike. If you put the crossing too far off the desire line the danger is that peds will not use it. In this case, the junction has been tightened right up which will force drivers to navigate the junction at much lower speeds than previously.

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

True, but it's the one I go to! Used to be ok, but these days it is consistently quite bad.

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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

Zebra Croydon?! That's a new one! 🤪 The crossing is almost perfectly on the desire line, which is to say that the majority of people want to walk/cycle from one side road to the one opposite. Putting the crossing as close as possible to the junction means they don't need to deviate too far.

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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 · 25/09/2026

Yes it does seem to be a bit random. Prior to my current kettle I had a more expensive one which lasted less than 2 years... 🙄

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

No help to you whatsoever but my kettle cost about a tenner from Woolworths about 15+ years ago! And I drink a LOT of tea so it must have been used thousands and thousands of times. I miss Woolies 🥹

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The London Transport Museum is cool ☺️

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sadly a familiar story for many of us working in (or advocating for) active travel. You're on the right side of history! ❤️

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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!)

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I headed north on the train for FIVE HOURS!

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yay! Do say hello if you see a short woman wearing stripy trousers 😅

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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 ☺️

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"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... 🙄

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Terrible policy when domestic transport is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases in the UK.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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)

bbc.co.uk

Tribute to great-grandad who died after Southbourne car crash

Peter Kegg is described as "generous and caring" after he was hit by a car in Bournemouth in August.

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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

It had car wash stuff in it previously, I gave it a rinse out with my pressure washer. I figure once any residue in there has been diluted with 1000 litres of water it will be fine to water the garden with.

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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 · 15/09/2026

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...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“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.

latimes.com

Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level

Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Network Rail don't allow any new level crossings, AIUI - too much risk to life and service reliability.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who lives in a very touristy area of England, I welcome a small visitor tax (we're talking a few £ per person). High visitor numbers put a huge strain on local resources - policing, waste, traffic management, lifeguarding etc - and this will help councils cope with these additional costs.

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