Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 20hWhat’s more is that he wants to charge council tax payers for the privilege 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And it’s all money that would otherwise be spent on healthcare. 110
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026400 buses a day? That means a bus every 3 minutes day and night. There can’t be many places in the UK with that frequency. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Traditional tram stops in the middle of the road, without even an island for waiting passengers to stand on, never seemed to raise any issues either. 110
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Actually, still a good idea in the right place, but certainly not on a major cycle route. 100
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes I remember that particular crusade, too. He was also responsible for Exhibition Road and removing the footway/carriageway separation. 130
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Another feature of the right is the need to oppose, on principle, anything that progressives support, without thought as to whether it's a good or bad thing. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's quite interesting: 15-20 years ago Daniel was in the forefront of promoting cycle superhighways in London. He persuaded Boris Johnson, then Mayor, to promote these an persuaded the boroughs they should go along with them. 2171
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nice idea in a beautiful Victorian arcade in Halifax 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The circumstances seem to make the claim that these were terrorists increasingly implausible: - so clever they left no digital footprint - so stupid they were very easily caught - they have been released on bail - Trump says they knew all about the 5 and were closely monitoring them 101
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Amazing. We have had free local bus travel for over 67s for more than 50 years and free throughout England for 20 years. In London it’s also included free travel on tubes and trains. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We changed the definition of footway parking in London in 1996 just to avoid this problem. It’s now a contravention to park anywhere not on the carriageway unless specifically authorised. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hyperloop still hasn’t worked out how to do junctions or anything other than very gentle curves. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026They should be thinking about spending the same money on improving public transport and active travel instead. 061
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So the LibDems are talking about a big cut in fuel duty. This would mark a big growth in subsidies to motorists which would benefit the wealthy the most. They drive the most and drive the least fuel efficient cars. 1134
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A fascinating story showing both the positives (widely forecast) and the negatives (not at all forecast) of the new bridge. Lessons for everywhere else thinking that a new road will give unalloyed blessings 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe, but they are not ‘raking it in’ as you put it. 100
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026But not on any basis which is related to the number of speeding fines that they issue. For every extra speeding fine the police issue they get precisely nothing. 100
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The police don’t get any money from speeding fines. It all goes to the Treasury 100
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just to repeat: 29 pedestrians were killed on the pavement last year. 28 were killed by cars and one by a mobility scooter. None were killed by cycles or e-bikes. 020
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026But not, I think, predated by much. I remember the arguments with LT in the early ‘80s when swore blind it was impossible to put BR services onto the underground map. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I was in the departure lounge at Heathrow waiting to board my plane as the planes started to hit the WTC. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Sowerby Bridge rush bearing festival. Amazing the numbers involved. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026While DVLA says its database is 98% accurate, this just means the name/address boxes have been filled in. As many as 20% of keeper details may be fabricated (like in this case) or non-existent. DVLA doesn’t check. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The main reason for permit schemes is to stop non-residents from taking up all the space available. This is what residents pay for. 100
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I’m not sure that ‘ending the war on motorists’ is an election winning strategy anywhere these days. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026And how much does it cost you to drive there? Not just petrol costs but taking everything into account. At 60p-£1 per mile your driving costs exceed your parking costs if you have to drive much more than 2 miles each way. If less think about walking. 101
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Where are NFBUK in addressing the 29 pedestrians , some of them disabled, who were hit and killed last year while on the pavement? None of them hit by cyclists - 28 hit by cars and one by a mobility scooter. 1176
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The 1903 Royal Commission on London’s Transport was set up because of the ‘intolerable congestion’ on London’s roads. It also found that, if nothing was done, London’s streets would be a foot deep in horse manure within 20 years. 070
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Of the 29 pedestrians killed on the pavement, 28 were hit by cars and one by a mobility scooter. None were hit by bicycles or e-bikes. 1136
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The right have adopted the American approach - if the left propose something it must be wrong on principle and thus opposed. No thought on the substance at all. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It says something for the concept of powerful mayors that the two most successful interventions in transport in London in recent years - ULEZ and congestion charge - required huge political bravery. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And just how many children’s lives does your city think it is worth sacrificing to continue to allow the dirtiest cars to keep driving? www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026But the traders I spoke to in Kingston say that people would rather drive for an hour each way for free parking rather than pay 50p an hour. 151
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This comes round every year. It’s not a viable solution to anything. They may be able to get something to fly but finding places for it to land or take off is a far harder problem 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This came through and I thought; how sensible to do this. Not often you can see a government doing this well 070
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026But this is what Reform/Tories/Restore want this country to do with similar Swedish people. 010
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Not just through traffic. As much as 30% of traffic in high streets can be just searching for a parking spot. A consequence of parking that is too cheap, it adds nothing to local footfall but does add pollution and unpleasantness. 030
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 08/08/202610 years ago, I advised the German car makers not to bother designing any new internal combustion engines. They - apart from BMW - scoffed thinking that Angela Merkel would save them from EVs. 140
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Just received a letter today, via @royalmailchat.bsky.social , correctly addressed with proper postage, that had been posted on the 21st May, only 10 miles away. Is this some sort of record? Talk about snail mail. 111
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026But can’t calculate this for foreign registered vehicles, so presumably canny foreign visitors use the lowest tariff. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Even police camera enforcement is not systematic as they do not have enough back office staff to follow through on all the speeding they detect 020
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Traffic enforcement based on a combination of staffed efforts and cameras can be sustained and is effective. In London, bus lane contraventions were cut by 80% after 6 months and then sustained. 020
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Encourage every parking operator and local authority to participate in the National Parking Platform 001
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The 77 bus used to terminate, according to its destination blind, at the even more suggestive ‘Tooting Mitre’. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026They still haven’t realised that the biggest difficulty with these is where to take off from and where to land. 000
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026All fine so long as it's treated as murder if you kill someone. 100
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 18/07/20261 ½ minutes is far less than the normal variation in trip length for a journey of more than about 3 miles. You wouldn’t notice it. Maybe you would notice a 10 minute loss but the writer wouldn’t the just describe it as ‘hours lost’ but would be more graphic 111
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Doing the maths. 1 hour lost each month is less than 3 minutes each working day or 1 ½ minutes each way. 120
Nick Lester-Davis @quinlet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Many councils in London no longer allow front gardens to be turned into parking, both to prevent loss of on-street part and loss of natural drainage of storm water. 020
