@fmac36@STVNews Number plate recognition. Anyway, cars are very costly for governments and councils to keep running. Especially now they are bigger, heavier and more numerous than they’ve ever been. Roads and pavements are constantly hammered by them.
Why do so many children in the Netherlands cycle? 🌍🚴♂️
The BBC’s brilliant Newsround programme asked me to explore…
https://t.co/Ienf24z1NC
An uplifting little film for your feed 🌱
Cyclists: terrified to ride out of fear of death from motorists. @Glasgow_Times doesn't give a shit.
Motorists: there are literally a million spots in the city and we lost 20. Glasgow Times reports like it's the end of the world.
Glasgow Times is a joke.
https://t.co/6nmAcr8qWZ
If Rachel Reeves had had the guts to raise fuel duty by 6p/litre she could have raised enough money (£3bn) to make every single bus journey in the UK free for everyone, every day, every year.
THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.
If you’re walking in Glen Coe tomorrow, do please keep your eyes out for a missing father and son. I’ve got everything crossed.
https://t.co/EaXxYggCk5
Check out this brand new masterpiece in Norway 🇳🇴 🚲
It's Europe's longest bicycle tunnel, which reduces cycling time to Bergen from 40 to 10 minutes.
Excellent cycling facilities are the way to get more people on bikes and leave their cars behind.
Big news 🐾 We are excited to share that the @SaveOurWildcats partnership has begun releasing critically endangered wildcats into the @CairngormsConnect landscape!
Read more about this historic milestone: https://t.co/ofIXJxAOdC
📷 @SaveOurWildcats
What is the 15-minute city? It's every city ever built by humans on this planet until a century ago, but with a catchy new name. And if the old parts haven't been destroyed in the last century, it's where the tourists go. And people travel across oceans to see the best of them.
FM @theSNP Nicola Sturgeon has published her tax return.
She receives one source of income - her salary as First Minister.
While she is taxed on her full salary, she receives only the 2008/09 value. This means she donates ~ 20% of her salary entitlement back to the public purse
❤️Please Help!❤️
Found this by Tescos in Inverness, near the watch repairers, I was getting my Doc Martins fixed, needed a good Biff! On the back, it reads,“Dad&Mum-1955”. Would love to get it back to the owner, either today or sometime very soon in the future. Please share!🙏
Finland introduces self-ID for trans people
18+ countries, or parts of countries, now have trans self-ID, with no adverse consequences for women - including Ireland, US, Australia, Canada & NZ
Trans critics must stop their lies & scaremongering!
https://t.co/hYeoXTC4BY
While we take stock of big, new losses in Dartmoor, I want to take a moment to talk about the micro enclosures happening every day around the country. They’ll never make the headlines. But they completely shape the way we live our lives.
This is mine. 🧵