Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Time for your “needs”, is that a Freudian slip of the autocorrect? 010
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 18/06/2025In the UK if you sit around too long after finishing your coffee, they try to get you to leave. In Türkiye they bring you a free çay! 010
Reposted by IanAlt Musician @altmusician.altgov.info · 17/05/2025Statement from the #MusiciansUnion of the United States 🇺🇸 and #Canada 🇨🇦 to the fat bastard #BruceSpringsteen #TaylorSwift 8209664664
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Great band - saw them in the ‘80s and again in the Brudenel Club a few years ago 🎸🎼🎶 020
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 15/04/2025You might find @mikebernerslee.bsky.social new book Climate of Truth quite interesting 010
Reposted by IanAlastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Can’t even make their own MAGAhats 711315282
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic 👇 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comIf road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean TodtDeaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development 010
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Does anyone know if the road will still be open to pedestrians and cyclists? 100
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This article was written 5 years ago - it would be really interesting to know if Madrid has continued with this policy and whether or not it has continued to be successful. Do you know of a more recent report? 130
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Awesome! A photo from the only Argyle supporter in Harrogate #GreenArmy 010
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Yes, a lot of it is down to the culture, but how much can the culture be influenced by the design of our cities? Unfortunately cities in the US have been built around car use creating that car culture 110
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I spent a weekend in the modern town of Tres Cantos to the north of Madrid: high rise apartments, ground floor shops, restaurants, and open spaces, thronging with people out walking, meeting up in the bars and restaurants with friends and neighbours, and going about their daily lives. Pefect👌 170
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 11/01/2025“I believe the word for someone seeking to sell their own country to a foreign power is ’traitor’” Thanks to @peterturner.bsky.social for the quote 010
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Wow - a great piece about a place so far away with such a sinister past 000
Reposted by IanJacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 03/01/2025A reminder that the number of people killed by that truck in New Orleans on NYD happened more than 700 times on average over the previous year. & that’s just the people killed by cars we weren’t in other cars. Because our road network isn’t safe for anyone, even when you’re belted in w/air bags. 08219
Reposted by IanBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/12/2024“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/90182112/wan...fastcompany.comWant To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike LaneResearch from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of. 15584183
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Incredible if true that the Conservatives would say one thing while doing the opposite 000
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I have enjoyed visiting Hay on Wye since the 1980s - I would say that it has changed quite a lot since those days but with fewer book shops but it seems to have diversified successfully 010
Reposted by IanBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Cars are an invasive species. If you do not prevent them access through solid, controlling infrastructure design, they will infest every bit of urban space we have. 411714
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Good thread here from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social discussing who is affected by the new inheritance tax laws for wealthy “farmers” and land owners. If interested, I suggest you read his book, Who Owns England 031
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Out of interest: would grouse moorland fall into the new inheritance tax laws? I thought it was already taxed at 40% unless the owner went through a number of hoops to show that it was a business or for public good 111
Reposted by IanAndrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Starmer rejects Clarkson's claim about most farmers being hit by inheritance tax extension, saying 'facts speak for themselves' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comStarmer says most farmers won’t be affected by inheritance tax change as Clarkson tells rally it’s a ‘hammer blow’ – UK politics liveJeremy Clarkson tells Westminster protest that government should admit plans weren’t ‘thought out and are a mistake’ 1213334
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hey Harrogate shop owners, if you want your businesses to grow, you need to be asking North Yorkshire Council to install more cycling and walking infrastructure 👇 03411
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Classic right wing response; when asked a question, instead of answering he just attacks the media 000
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024But @theguardian.com political editor and urban cyclist @peterwalker99.bsky.social got here first 😀👇 000
Ian @ian5spot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Good to see at last that someone in the UK government is taking climate change seriously and finally putting some urgency into the move away from fossil fuels 👍 011
Reposted by IanBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS 125995451
