I like cycling, and my other option, taking public transport, entails having to deal with far too many other people in proximity first thing in the morning, so I found a way that works for me. I get my bag with my work clothes ready the night before, and put my cycling clothes out, so everything is ready when I wake up.

Black coffee and baked eggs with mixed vegetables, done in the pressure cooker. I usually cycle to work and ten miles with nothing but coffee inside me would be bad, so I managed to find something I like, and because I'm in the UK I can leave the eggs out on the counter so when I fall out of bed and into my cycling gear and stumble through to the kitchen for coffee, the eggs are there, the pressure cooker is there, and it's a two minute job to get everything cooking while I make coffee.

he’s committed no crimes,

Apart from several offences under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Most subway lines were dug after the city they go under was built, and, for example, there's a whole lot of London on top of the London Underground. Very difficult to dig upwards, very expensive to dig downwards. In the above ground sections you'd have to rebuild all the road bridges.

Much easier and cheaper to run the most efficient service possible with a high throughput of trains.

The office where I work in central London, UK has bike parking for 300 and only eight vehicle parking spaces. We also have a fitness suite. There's two (male and female) locker rooms with showers, towels provided, a drying room.

At least one of the green building standards doesn't give you the top rating unless you have provision for active travel, institutional investors won't buy your shiny new building unless it's rated "Excellent" or "Platinum", tenants are looking for added extras which encourage their staff to come to the office rather than WFH.

And Westminster Council charges business rates (property tax) on parking spaces.

The bike probably has a chain guard and wheel guard.

Grant Shapps is going to be furious and there's nothing he can do about it. 😁

I think the legal problem is how to fine Lime when it’s the end user who ‘litters’ the bike, and how to know whether the name on the payment method matches the end user. I’m sure if councils could legally seize and fine/destroy, they’d be doing it.

And I don't know if Lime have updated the security but it used to be quite easy to override the locking mechanism and ride without paying, you just had to live with the really loud clicking noise the bike made. So if it's been stolen and then dumped, Lime have no comeback against anyone.

Plans get lost, stuff gets bricked up, there were a number of bombs fell in that area during WWII (http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.5187/-0.1039), it can mean expensive surprises when doing building work.

When they were building the Eurostar tunnels down the road from me they found a load of disused wells that nobody had any idea existed, with unfortunate results.

the New World Order, the World Economic Forum, you won't be allowed to leave your neighbourhood because 15 minute cities are coming with guards and checkpoints.

Why not use oil lamps or candles in wind-proof lanterns? Red glass for rear, clear glass for the front. My grandparents rode bikes back in the days before reliable battery lamps were a thing and that's what they used.

I use YNAB for budgeting

Plan to Eat for meal planning.

Unfuck your habitat for cleaning.

Different political parties.

Red = Labour (new governing party).

Gold = Liberal Democrat.

Blue = Tory (former governing party).

Grey = Independent (but he used to be Labour and was leader of the Labour party for a bit).

Do not offer street homeless people shelter unless you have the skills, training and abilities necessary to support them long term, including dealing with the underlying issues which led to the person becoming street homeless in the first place and the subsequent issues which have kept them there.

Me starting on the diagnostics pathway has been approved by my medical insurance.

I'm in the UK so normally I'd go via the NHS but the medical insurance I have via work has a neurodiversity pathway and my GP asked me to take that route if at all possible, as it will be quicker and easier for me.

Hi, I'm new here, just started the process of diagnosis in the UK. Strongly suspect inattentive ADHD, and I think this has all come to a head since I stopped drinking, no alcohol means no hiding places from your own brain any more...

There's been a few different suggestions, I'm not sure what the current iteration says.

As I understand it, the big problem with any Oxford Street pedestrianisation is the diverted bus routes. Everything would have to go down Wigmore Street, which would have to be converted back to a two-way street.

Cross-posting my comment from the other community:

I think what our mate Darin is referring to by “e-bikes” is throttle-operated, no need to pedal, capable of going 30-60mph electric motorbike which, like any other motorbike, you need a licence and protective gear to ride, and no, they’ve got no business being in the bike lane with people noodling along at 10-15mph, and definitely not on the pavement with pedestrians.

Unfortunately, Darin is an idiot who can’t string a sentence together and so he’s just told everyone that my electric assist pedal cycle, top assisted speed of 15.5mph, no need for a licence or insurance, is also illegal. Thanks, Darin.

This House of Commons briefing from 2019 lays out what the issues are with e-scooters, in that because they’re not legally classed as a bicycle, they have the same legal requirements as a motorbike, which is clearly nonsense for a scooter with a top speed of 15.5mph, however, the law has not yet caught up with reality. Since that briefing was written, various trials have started in cities with hired e-scooters provided by third parties to see how the law needs to be updated and what needs to change in order to make them legal on UK roads, but the trials seem to just keep getting extended with no conclusions drawn. As we’re currently in election purdah, nothing’s going to happen until July anyway, and I highly doubt that “sorting out e-scooter legality” will be top of the new government’s priority list.