“Maybe it’s dropping off it’s little pebbles to rock school”: Dumped building materials block cycle lane, leading people to suggest they “get a wheelbarrow” and move it themselves; Second day of punchy hills await TdF Femmes + more on the live blog

It’s 2026, a quarter century through the 21st century! How much more antiquated BS are we going to put up with? - Equality is non negotiable! Equal pay, equal coverage, equal rights. Hello! Whatever happened to so-called European civilisation?

I'm trying to think of an n-th degree silly response to this. Given the issue is pollution by motorists, why punish people who are walking/cycling by banning THEM...? One answer might be to install clear plastic barriers along the edge of the road, which we saw in 2020 to try to prevent the spread of covid, thus keeping the offending fumes away from the path...

Aren't people inside cars at a higher risk? As they are right in the pollution not next to it, and it gets trapped inside their vehicle so they are breathing it in over and over

Why is the starting point ten months for killing someone? Why do we have people who have already shown themselves to be a danger, roaming about with dangerous weapons?

Just thinking about the terms "careless driving" and and the high threshold to meet the charge or be convicted of "dangerous driving". And I thought about how this might apply during a driving test... With the terms "minor fault" and "dangerous fault". Given a single dangerous fault on a test would mean a fail and pretty much any incident where a driver is charged with "careless" driving would meet that standard, should they face an immediate ban and be required to take an extended re-test? Maybe also theory and hazard perception tests too? https://www.gov.uk/driving-test/driving-test-faults-result

My little Renault Zoe has (22 plate), and it is very useful.

@jackcycles Thank you for this. Very sad as you say. It will be interesting to see whether the driver is eventually charged with dangerous driving or they accept a guilty plea for careless driving. Also one for Mitsky. Surely it should either be Nissan and bicycle or Nissan driver and a cyclist.

More info here on how this works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ya3V-s4I0&t=603

@ceebee247 yup, they'd need both a top- down redirection and a training / culture shift, even though presumably they are required to be aware of the appropriate guidance (and in the UK it is just "guidance"). It only works differently elsewhere (eg. NL) because of *both* accepted norms and a legal feedback route (build dangerous / inaccessible stuff or go against certain "environmental regulations" and you may have to defend your choice in court).

Exactly the stunt Shimano pulled when they belatedly went from 10 speed to 11 speed, creating instant redundancy for everyone who had 10 speed wheels and wanted to upgrade. They never even offered a freehub to retrofit older wheels. It’s either deliberate planned obsolescence or reflects a chaotic design philosophy.