A.K.A Mrs Helen Skinner, interested in Software, Electronics, SciComm, Cycling (without the need for lycra) + Life. UK politics may take prominence at times.
Guildford
Joined February 2010
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Lovely day for a lunchtime trip to the farm shop, that's the π food & bedding sorted for a while.
Cargo bikes are great, they make so many more trips doable by bike, the hardest bit was pushing it up the slope to the chickens, but then I'd have had to carry it up from a car π
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If Bryan can swap his car for a bike, so can you!
(πΉ by @WallonieMobiliT)
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After years of #carsharing, I am considering buying an #OwnCar. But before I decide, I have a few questions to confirm that this is the right solution for me.
Please help me out in this thread π§΅:
.@EE someone has used my email address to sign up to your services. You didn't do any basic verification. Now I'm getting all their account emails. No email address included to contact you on, just a phone number and I've got other things to be doing. Poor show. #GDPRBasics
Love this! "I guess I'm a cyclist" it kind of happened to me this way, it was just easier to do the short journeys. As I whizzed past the traffic today with my daughter, other nursery parents said their 5 min journey was taking 45 mins.
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Guildford you were amazing on our September 2024 bike ride. Over 230 of you joined the call for safer streets!
#KidicalMass #streetsforeveryone #streetsforkids #SaferStreetsNow
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Thanks for supporting everyone on our ride!
Another week of recess but Iβve been cracking on with all sorts this week both in #GuildfordConstituency and in Westminster.
Hereβs a small glimpse of whatβs been filling my time this week.
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Thanks to the amazing 230 riders who joined us this September! Pedal power! Here are some highlights #KidicalMass #SaferStreetsNow #StreetsForKids
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"Sometimes, a shop owner claims his business was ruined because the city removed 4 parking spaces. With surveys, our mayor can say: β6,000 more people pass your shop a day thanks to a new bike lane. Are you sure youβre a good businessman?ββ
β Jan Gehl in #Straphanger #Copenhagen
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Our next ride is on 29th September - come along!!
#streetsforeveryone #streetsforkids
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I can't believe Britain perfected suburban housing and then just⦠stopped building like this.
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If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again
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When we build bigger roads, we get more traffic. Congestion briefly gets better, then the same, then worse. Β£Billions is spent in the process.
Instead of dualling roads, what if we used the space for active travel instead? Hereβs a thread on why it should happen.π§΅
ALT Drone photograph of A27 cycle path
ALT Drone photograph of A27 cycle path
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Dear @Channel4News
The Y2K bug did not βturn out to be a phantom issueβ.
Hundreds of thousands of us worked our bloody socks off to make sure the world went on working. The fact that nothing went badly wrong took a decade of planning and effort.
Sloppy bloody reporting
renovateme.co.uk/blog/vat-2-β¦
So Β£500K retrofit, would save Β£75k if we move out + leave the property empty for 2 years.... No wonder we have so many empty homes, what a perverse law!
@mtpennycook another loop hole for the rich with second homes or even us - cheaper to rent for 2yrs!
We know people who knocked down and started again because the vat exemption made it cheaper, this doesn't encourage sustainable development, we really need to improve our existing housing stock too.
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I'm leading a 3-year @Motability funded project 'Monitoring access control removal on traffic-free routes'.
Using Vivacity sensors, interviews & surveys, we'll monitor the impacts of barrier removal on intended & antisocial use.
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ALT Photo of an a-frame access control barrier and horse style at the entrance to a traffic free route. Says 'monitoring access control barrier removal on traffic free walking, wheeling and cycling routes'. Logos of the university of Westminster, the active travel academy, and motability
