May 2025
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Oxfordshire's A420 might get average speed cameras!
BBChow France saved its public transport in the 1970s
S-Bahna study of responses to the East Oxford Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Brookes [PDF]"people were adapting car journeys if they could, or using their cars less and walking and cycling more for short journeys. ... overall, moderate levels of support for the East Oxford LTN."
against "dual provision" cycling infrastructure
Oxford BlogFlanders is taking cycling seriously
ECF"Between 2014 and 2023, its cycling modal share increased from 12.5% to 19%... The Flemish government’s 2024 coalition agreement outlines a target of reaching a 30% cycling mode share by 2040."
why archers didn't volley fire
Unmitigated Pedantry"we have no evidence for archer volley fire because they didn’t do it and they didn’t do it because it doesn’t solve a problem that exists with bows (whose rate of shot is fast enough not to require volley tactics) but it does cause all sorts of new problems (exhausting your archers)"
Bergen's new bike tunnel is a fantastic public space, not just a route
Not Just Bikesa robust natural experiment suggests the shingles vaccine reduces dementia risk by 20%
Stanford MedicineVoices from Gaza
B'Tselem"For two months now, Israel has been blocking the entry of food and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, deliberately starving over two million people, including more than one million children."
a Birmingham bus trip
The Bee"Birmingham was cruel to my parents: it contained rich resources that they struggled daily to access, for the simple reason that the city was not built with their needs and means in mind."
the role of women in the 2025 Australian election
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