Notices by Iain Roberts (slowbikeiain@urbanists.social)

As a councillor, I introduced 20mph limits on most local residential roads & shopping streets. I didn't do other main roads though. I thought people would be less likely to rat-run if the main roads were kept at 30mph. I now believe I was wrong.

A blanket urban 20mph (with exceptions when appropriate) puts drivers in a 20mph mindset.

As we drive around, there's less chopping and changing and 20mph becomes a habit. The Welsh approach bakes that in, making everyone safer. #20mph

Road, foot and rail bridges across River Conwy, North Wales.

@goatsarah But I bet you're aunt doesn't go around Uranus.

@feld @tomscott @kkarhan I would be interested to understand the reasons people have for preferring these neopronouns over "they".

@kkarhan @feld @tomscott "They" seems best to me, for all the reasons Tom gives. If some people want to invent new pronouns, I've no objection, but they're very unlikely to catch on.

@adamgreenfield Agreed. We are where we are - industrialisation has seen by far the biggest fall in poverty in human history, but at a great environmental price.

This isn't an ideological battle against capitalism, we need to look for any and all opportunities.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the problem of women being sexually assaulted in public was so bad that the women used hatpins to defend themselves.

Governments were very concerned about the problem and...passed laws to limit the length of hat pins.