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Nathan_A_RF

@nathanarf.bsky.social
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He/Him. Graduate Transport Planner at PJA. Roads, transport, traffic signs geekery. All views are personal.

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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a good 2026!
A misty morning by the River Thames with the yellow sun breaking through the clouds. The tall tower of a bridge lies in the background while various boats sit on the opposite side of the river. A greylag goose is in mid flight in the foreground.
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Walk Ride Salford @walkridesalford.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Chapel St East now open! 😍🚶‍♀️👨‍🦽‍➡️🛴🚲🚌🚛
Aerial shot of Chapel St East showing new cycle tracks, resurfaced carriageway and new paving.Aerial shot of Chapel St East showing new toucan crossing and protected cycle tracks
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
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Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A "trixie" crossing? One for the glossary @roads.org.uk ! assets.dft.gov.uk/trafficauths...
A plan of a segregated pedestrian, cycle and equestrian crossing, with the three crossings at a slight diagonal as they cross the road
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Looking forward to the “Reform’s war on motorists” headlines.
FT story:

A Reform UK council is proposing to increase parking charges and reduce litter picking, grass cutting and bus services as it attempts to avoid having to raise council tax.

Durham county council has put forward a series of cost-cutting measures that also include less weed killing and vacancies for "lollipop" men and ladies not being filled.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I'm not sure Network Rail understand suitable x-heights on signs... This is seen increasingly more and more these days. (picture from a friend)
A newly upgraded level crossing with lights and barriers on a rural road. There are 'KEEP CROSSING CLEAR' signs underneath the lights, potentially only 20x10cm big.
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Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 03/11/2025
New! After eight years of waiting, they're online! See London's unbuilt motorways as even their planners never could in our amazing, immersive Ringways Map, hosted by the amazing SABRE Maps. It *might* be the best thing we've ever done. #ringways
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The Ringways Map is here
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Good to hear everyone is safe looking at that damage - notably the train driver! It will be interesting to know what similarities if any this incident has to the Carmont derailment back in 2020. Hopefully lessons have been learned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
West Coast Mainline blocked as train derails in Cumbria
Avanti says it could be
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
It's nice when you know what you want to do in life at this age
A picture of me as a young child laying on the floor next to an array of handmade road signs
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
There's a few of these lining the Thames in Reading. Vintage. @showmeasign.online
A triangular warning sign on a lamp post, warning of an unprotected quayside or riverbank. The car is of a design that makes the sign many decades old.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The congestion charges started in Oxford today. If only they had someone check the spelling on the signs!
A sign on a lamp post. The top is a red circle with a white 'C', the bottom is a black and white plate stating "7am-7pm, Charge for (picture of a car) only, Pay on line by midnight tomorrow" (note the space between "on" and "line")
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Was quite nice to stumble across this last week in the Chilterns. The Centre for Outdoor Accessibility has a lot of gates for testing!
A field with four rows of fences close together and various gates, gaps and barriers in esch one. Grass is mown around the fencesA lone small gate in a field with far reaching views across Oxfordshire in the background. The wooden hate has a large metal and plastic pad in the middle to press to open the gate.A view the same as image 1 but from the other direction, showing different gates.A green sign with the text "Centre for Outdoor Accessibility Training" with the Natural England logo in the top right corner
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
One added benefit of seeing @jayforeman.bsky.social and @markcooperjones.bsky.social launch their excellent book in Bristol on Thursday was I got a taste of some Dutch kerbs!
A newly constructed pavement in amongst roadworks. A number of large sloped kerbstones form a ramp along the kerbline for around 3m. Behind thr pavement is a cycleway still under construction.
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Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 20/10/2025
Right now there are a lot of Union Jacks hanging from streetlights and St George's Crosses on mini-roundabouts. Kent is bucking the trend by permanently adding EU flags to its road signs. Just what is going on in Dover? www.roads.org.uk/blog/red-whi...
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Red, white and blue
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
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SCS Software @scssoft.com · 20/10/2025
We trust you have your proper cup of tea ready, for it is with the greatest pleasure that we announce the Project UK Rework for Euro Truck Simulator 2 🇬🇧 We’re ever so pleased to share a little more about our forthcoming plans ☕️ Read more at our blog: blog.scssoft.com/2025/10/proj...
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Project UK Rework
SCS Software's official blog - information, screens & movies from our truck simulator games Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.
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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1980's advert, still one of the best I've seen for making a fundamental point, simply.
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Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 16/10/2025
You can catch a train to France if you want, but back in the 80s there were hopes you'd be able to drive there too. Meet EuroRoute, the unbelievable plan for a road across the Channel via bridges, a tunnel and two artificial islands. www.roads.org.uk/articles/eur...
Artist's rendering of a long cable stayed bridge stretching away into the distance over a choppy sea with a yellow sailing boat in the foreground and a cargo ship away on the horizonArtist's rendering of an artificial island, shown as a cut-away so the interior is visible. A cable stayed bridge carries a road onto the island which spirals down underground, while buildings and a marina are visible around the edgesDiagram showing a small part of the Kent coast with Dover visible; projecting out across the Channel are two lines, one representing a rail tunnel and the other a long road bridge to an island and a tunnel on from thereSketch of an artificial island, with a cable stayed bridge leading to it, which has a large marina surrounded by hotels and casinos
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A sump buster for @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social and some interesting use of advisory speed signs for @showmeasign.online
A single lane road with a cycle lane heading towards a bus stop and a sump buster, a petruding metal and concrete lump, in the background. A pair of blue and yellow pedal cycle and bus only signs are in the foreground either side of the road. Below them are 'max speed 10' signs, and a yellow warning sign for the sump buster.
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Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 08/10/2025
Manchester City Council have lowered the speed limit on the Mancunian Way to 30mph. Or at least they say they have - but creating a 30 limit on a motorway is, legally, almost impossible. So what is the speed limit now? #manchester www.roads.org.uk/blog/schrodi...
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Schrödinger’s speed limit
In 2022, Manchester City Council say they reduced the speed limit on the Mancunian Way to 30mph. But it’s not clear if they did. It’s not even clear if they can.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nice to see more Dutch kerbs being installed
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Settling in to Reading well, it's a lovely place but the cycle infrastructure is almost non-existent. Shall join the local cycling campaign group at their next meeting to see if I am of any use.
A view of the River Thames at Reading, with the single-tower cable-stayed Christchurch Bridge crossing the calm blue river. A boat is moored on the nearside bank, with another sunk vessel in front of it.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 21/09/2025
They aren’t just flower beds!!! Fascinating peak beneath the surface of one of London’s new Cycleways - you can see the complex drainage system that ensures bike lanes help protect the capital from heavy rain & the effects of climate change. And don’t they look great when they’re finished? 💚🚲👍
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
While I understand the BBC’s imperative to provide balance in stories, at times it can feel completely ludicrous. Data vs one person’s entirely anecdotal opinion isn’t balance.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979 👏 Evidence-led policy
bbc.co.uk
Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales
Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Good to see the demand for 20mph in villages throughout Gloucestershire.
bbc.in
Gloucestershire villages interested in 20mph zones reaches 150
Villages and communities across Gloucestershire express an interest in bringing in 20mph limits.
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City Infinity @cityinfinity.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
For some upcoming training, we've redesigned a client's junction for them to show the art of the possible - a Cycle Optimised Protected Signals (CYCLOPS) junction. There's a trade-off with the floating crossings, but this is a good way to manage the three modes. #JunctionDesign #SustainableMobility
An engineering plan of a signalised crossroads. There is a pale red orbital cycle track which passes around 4 pedestrian crossing islands on each corner of the junction which cross the cycle track with zebra crossings. The zebras are offset by about 45 degrees from the signalised crossings of the main road. The north-south arms have two traffic lanes approaching the junction (right and ahead/ left) and one on each of the east-west roads. The north-south cycle tracks have verge buffers and east-west has wide cycle lanes.
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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🗺️ NEW MAP MEN VIDEO!!!!!! 🗺️ Have you ever wondered why Britain has twin towns? Or which two are the silliest? Share and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zte_...
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The real reason Britain has twin towns
YouTube video by Jay and Mark
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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 12/09/2025
youtu.be/SML5Wxw8U54 I try and avoid doing the predictable memes and ask instead can it be made to look and function a bit more neatly?
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Is it the Magic or Tragic Roundabout?!
YouTube video by Bryn Buck
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kerb Nerds assemble A Dutch entrance kerb* spotted in the wild @rideleicester.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @hardhatalex.bsky.social *I hope it is
A light grey Dutch entrance kerb leads from an asphalt road way with two yellow lines onto a tarmac footpath. There’s a White van in the distance
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Guerilla 20 mph signs have appeared on a road local to me. People are getting fed up with dangerous roads and want a simple intervention that is proven to improve road safety.
A road with two road signs on either side, both with a contraflow bus lane sign and a small 20 mph sign underneath. There is a 20 mph road marking on the ground.
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It's Simon, yeah? @coldwarcliff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Good service on all Limes. 🫡
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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Stories like these are why we need to end pavement parking. Add your street of shame to our map of pavement parking hotspots 🗺️ act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/... shorturl.at/zDRfm
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Firefighters called as mobility scooter wedged between parked car and wall
Firefighters were called to rescue a man whose mobility scooter got stuck between a wall and a car parked across the pavement.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I feel a lot of the time anti-bird measures are more unsightly and problematic than just having birds rest on things.
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Hive mind: can anyone give me some examples of an installed DIAGONAL zebra/parallel crossing? UK only. Thanks 🙏
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Very excieted to have started my career with @pja-betterplaces.bsky.social today as a Graduate Consultant. I look forward to working with the transport team in a number of different ways and on a variety of projects.
A grey building with three company logos on the side. The important one here - the middle one - is PJA's logo, consisting of white text and a white/blue/green circular dot-and-line graphic.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
A nice blue-bordered survivor spotted while holidaying in Ceredigion a few weeks ago.
A large thick-blue-bordered sign pointing diagonally top right to Aberaeron, 7 miles away, and diagonally bottom left to Cross Inn, 4 miles away.
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Unusual way of adding a yellow backing board. Reminds me of old railway semaphore signals that needed to be more conspicuous.
Two no entry signs next to each other. One is mounted on a free-standing post, the other on a post attached to a wall with a yellow backing board behind it.A closeup of the sign attached to the wall showing the cables running down from the lamp illuminating the sign into an electrical box.
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
20mph in Wales has been an overwhelming success. A deep dive into the data and outcomes.
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Turns out the 20mph limit was great idea!
Two years on from the controversial policy, it's becoming increasingly clear that the doubters were wrong
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 03/08/2025
We shouldn’t have to escape the city for a daily dose of nature, no matter how short or small. By challenging the privilege of the car on our streets, we create new opportunities for re-greening them; thus boosting our physical, mental, and social well-being. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025.
A before and after collage of a street in central London. The before is an asphalt-dominated three-lane thoroughfare. The after a lush green pedestrian zone with seating.
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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 31/07/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGC... Having managed to retrieve anything from this trip thanks to storage media failure you better go and appreciate my efforts 😆
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Port Talbot - the motorway on TOP of the town!
YouTube video by Bryn Buck
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Trees For Streets @treesforstreets.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
World Nature Conservation Day is a day to recognise the need for a clean and healthy environment. Air quality, physical and mental health, and local ecosystems can all be improved with more street trees. Days like today are vital for helping to spread our regreening message - will you help us?
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This has over 268k signatures now, and the more, the merrier! If you're in the UK and haven't signed this, please do so! There are two days until a debate date is set, and the weight of numbers is important. The damage this and the payment processor puritanism are doing is substantial.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The evidence on the wide benefits of 30kmh and 20mph limits keeps on coming. Denying the evidence is callous and so detrimental to community health and well-being in city, town or village where 30kmh/20mph should be default. bit.ly/3GuRur4
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Lower speed limits in European cities | TomTom Newsroom
Discover how European cities like Amsterdam, London, and Bologna are lowering speed limits to improve safety, reduce noise, and promote sustainable transport
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Overgrown hedge obscuring an important sign 👎 Overgrown hedge full of cherry plums 👍
A 40 mph speed limit sign partially obscured by foliage from a cherry plum tree, with yellow and red fruit adorning the branches
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Was great to experience Prague and its trams last week. A fantastic (but not perfect) transport system. Had my first ride on a trolleybus too.
Two soviet-era T3 trams in red and beige round a bend on a cobbled street with the ornate blue and beige towers of St. Nicholas Church in the backgroundA Škoda tram in a Tesco advertising livery runs along a cobbled street in central PragueA grey and red trolleybus with three sections connected by two pivots
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
After hard work in difficult times, I was proud to graduate from the University of Southampton this week, receiving the degree of master of engineering with first class honours in civil engineering. My career with @pja-betterplaces.bsky.social starts in September!
Myself dressed in university gown and cap shaking the hand of the vice president of the University of Southampton, dressed similarly.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
*COUGHS LOUDLY*
The Goodwin Curve that incredibly consistently predicts public attitudes towards road traffic reduction measures over time. The biggest opposition is always just before and during implementation, while majority support almost inevitably follows with a few months or a couple of years tops. Every. Damn. Time!
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Nathan_A_RF @nathanarf.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Uneducated self-righteous arrogant idiot. More verges need to be dedicated wildflower sites, and more legal protections are needed due to vandalism like this. Make sure you apply for local verges to be protected in your area.
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My controversial opinion today is that we should stop knowingly killing 30,000 people annually and sabotaging our economy to the tune of £27bn per year. And that we should listen to doctors when they tell us this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say
Royal College of Physicians also says poor air quality costs country more than £500m a week
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Good to see Moray Council setting 20mph for urban/village roads. Another 95,000 people getting the benefits of 20mph limits for community roads. bit.ly/3FYuUH9
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