When you design a city's infrastructure to enable autonomous kids, you enrich life and society for everyone. Children learn to embrace the freedom of safe, independent mobility and parents get their time back. From young to old, proper infrastructure serves everyone.
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Seen today on A617 near Chesterfield. Part of the DfT's 'Roadmap to an Accessible Railway'?
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to install a footbridge + lifts at inaccessible Chinley station is estimated at ca. £5m. The DfT said NO!
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Meanwhile, improving access to a station like Palmer's Green, with a footfall of well over a million, which like Chinley has no step-free access to platforms, ...2/3
cannot be justified because of the “significant disruption caused to other users of the main line [..] and the significant costs to passengers and taxpayers.”
Who is the publicly funded railway for, Lord Hendy? 3/3
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...where negotiating urban areas is much safer when clear 'give way signs'/priorities + cycle traffic lights give all road users proper respect @rivierarider.bsky.social
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@urbancyclinginstitute.org See this website!
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...where negotiating urban areas is much safer when clear 'give way signs'/priorities + cycle traffic lights give all road users proper respect @rivierarider.bsky.social
@hackneycyclist.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk
@urbancyclinginstitute.org See this website!
bicycledutch.wordpress.com/about/
Paul Tattam
If #HS2 bill rises to £102 billion, that is the equivalent of providing £10 million of investment to 10,000 stations. By way of comparision ... 1/3
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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The Netherlands is great for cycling! We used the Maassluis ferry, from Hoek Van Holland northwards the coast route is a delight. We passed through Leiden + Delft ... 1/3 @paultattam.bsky.social
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Hoeksveer ferry from Hoek van Holland to the other side of Europoort/Maasvlakte 2 is v. useful, the docks are fascinating, you can visit Portlantis Exhibition-but there is no ferry on a Monday !
www.hoeksveer.nl/EN/
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www.portofrotterdam.com/en/portlantis
Hoeksveer ferry from Hoek van Holland to the other side of Europoort/Maasvlakte 2 is v. useful, the docks are fascinating, you can visit Portlantis Exhibition-but there is no ferry on a Monday !
www.hoeksveer.nl/EN/
@dutchcycling.nl @hoekvanholland.bsky.social
www.portofrotterdam.com/en/portlantis
Provides an update on which UK rail stations will progress with the Access for All programme.
Erst vorgestern las ich wieder, dass niederländische Kinder laut UNICEF zu den glücklichsten gehören.
Die Erklärung: Dort lässt man sie erst mal Kinder sein – viel draußen spielen, Freiheit und Selbstständigkeit erleben. Und ermöglicht wird das durch solche Radinfrastruktur:
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