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Friday Caption Contest: Body Parts

Friday Caption Contest: Body Parts

Well done to everyone who entered last week’s contest. After planting evidence on our panel of judges, they’ve decided that the winner has to be Kim with, “Is this the queue for the canteen?” Though to be fair, Nathan’s suggestion that the police may be planning to infiltrate critical mass also deserves consideration. The way to...
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Friday Caption Competition: Camel-Hoof Amsterdam Fetish-Wear Edition

Friday Caption Competition: Camel-Hoof Amsterdam Fetish-Wear Edition

Before we come to that though, three cheers to everyone who entered last week’s contest. The clear winner was Katja Leyendecker, who correctly identified the London cyclist as a Boris Bike Braveheart escapee with the caption: “It’s all for nothing if you don’t have your freedom” This week we continue in this theme of the foreign...
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Drugs, Spiders & Cycle Infrastructure

Drugs, Spiders & Cycle Infrastructure

Every dozen or so years, studies on the effects of various drugs on spiders’ web-weaving abilities re-surface. There’s probably some serious science behind this, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a bunch of scientists doing the grant-funded equivalent of getting your dog drunk. Except probably without the resultant doggy incontinence & vomiting problems. I...
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Do You Want More People Riding Bikes?

Do You Want More People Riding Bikes?

… which would mean fewer people in cars; fewer traffic jams; less money spent on unbelievably expensive roads; less oil being burnt; quieter, more civilised towns & cities; and a revolution in locally run businesses? “This research shows that if we want more people to cycle, we need to invest in safe cycle routes and...
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Friday Caption Contest: Spies Like Us

Friday Caption Contest: Spies Like Us

Congratulations to last week’s competition winner, Mr John The Monkey. With his revelations about government spending on special advisers to pie chefs, he wins the Shell Oils’ Sustainable Transport Prize of Nowt But Hot Air™ (and a warmer climate). So well done that simian! For this week’s contest, we have a car-owner* who was recently photographed...
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London Traffic - Early 1950s?

Over the last week or so there’s been a few videos of historical traffic situations posted - from Portland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam . So I thought it would be interesting to see what the UK looked like in a similar period. What I found on YouTube was this fantastic video, which I think is from...
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