Sam Wakeling
@samwake
Loves streets. Make them safe. Set them free. Sheffield. Abolition. Works at Living Streets. Free free 🍉 🔗 sam.wakeling.me
What counts as unnecessary pavement obstruction? As I walked down here, someone else was walking up. We would have passed beside the van, but they stepped aside to wait to avoid squeezing past. Obstruction doesn’t just mean whether one person can get through.
Good to have bus fares capped again - they should be cheap. Transport sec on media saying Bee Network buses have had 11% more passengers in a year. Great! Does that mean less car driving? No. That’s also gone up. Better, cheaper buses are essential. And they don’t mean less driving. Both true.
The Drawing Shop in Hillsborough’s old Wilko is such a joyful and wonderful place. Anyone can wander in and make art for free. While I quite liked Wilko, I can safely say I never wept with joy there while it was a shop. Go along if you can www.thedrawingshop.co.uk
Ambulance getting delayed for at least a minute because Hillsborough Corner prioritises traffic capacity over safety. Hope they’re okay.
There is some dependency, but how far does that go? Where in this slope does affluence of wealthy households become a factor?
During yesterday’s record June heat all Sheffield’s trams were stopped. The less we do on climate, the more of this we get.
(There is also a NI strategy, but with this photo on page 1, I think the less said about it the better)
Real-time heatwave records are something our media know how to report - simple numbers, hour by hour changes, fairly predictable. All the human story angles you want. Often focused around London. It’s perfect newsy stuff. Even if they manage to grossly miss that these are epically violent crimes.
Currently baking a cake in a shoe box on our bike shed roof, which is 77C.
Say what you like about the BBC’s climate coverage, they know how to make a heatwave feel chill. 🧊 [sound on]
After the terrible crash last week, EMR’s website has this message when you open it. It feels like another reminder of how normal and considerate responses to tragedy can look when they aren’t on roads. Have you seen a road authority share this kind of message after a serious collision?
I was wondering how long it would take for “hydration break” to enter common usage. Then got an email from school 🚰
Brick paving helps make most local streets in Netherlands feel so much friendlier and less car-dominated. I’d assumed this was more expensive than tarmac, but I gather it is more durable so actually often cheaper in the longer run.
On this day 6 years ago all UK papers gave a coordinated message. A reminder of how when a crisis really feels like a crisis, it makes sense to appeal not to self-interest but to us as part of a community.
It doesn’t need to be a conspiracy for a problem to be systemic. The role of a decent prime minister would be to ensure that companies like this stop killing children.
What if there were a colour-coded map of road danger? I wonder how close it might be to the inverse of the traffic delay shown on Google Maps? ✅ Where this shows green/good it indicates large amounts of traffic moving at speed. ‼️ That also usually implies high levels of danger.
Correction: 71% was the average over the whole day so far. At the moment renewables are actually generating about 82% and fossils 2%.
It’s windy and sunny 🌞 Right now renewables are producing 71% of UK electricity. Fossil fuels only 6%. grid.iamkate.com
Whoever pinned this minimal dose of calm to the community notice board at Sheffield Station cycle hub, thank you. 🙏🏻
“Gentlemen, there is no "architecture" in this square and you know it.” — a Bristol Councillor arguing for the construction of the dual carriageway through the square in the 1930s.
Queen Square in Bristol. Doing ok without a dual carriageway through the middle since 1992 🥰
Walking my kids to Lidl today and passed this fallen soldier. Thank you for your service 🫡 @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social