Let's be honest, it's batshit mental when you think of it. The trips people make are amazingly complex and so many can be substituted. But we plan based on the one time of day when it all goes to shit and queues form.

The craziest thing about transport planning is how whole cities have been designed and ripped apart based on the need of people in cars, for few hours of the day, where less than 20% of all the trips people make take place.

Oh my word this. If anyone says that they are only thinking of disabled people in making their views, ask how many of them they have asked what they want. Then watch them fall silent. If you want to know how the vulnerable feel about something, fucking ask them.

Finally cracked Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity today. Far from the best Zelda game, but still bloody good fun. And it makes you appreciate the back story to Breath of the Wild much more. Despite that time travelling thing...

People in my area spent most of the afternoon having socially distanced snowball fights, sledging, and generally fooling around in the snow. I know we must obey the rules, but you know what, I don't blame any of them for a second. Have some joy FFS.

This is the crux of the problem. If you don't mind the English countryside being covered with plastic, we could grow all year round. We just won't produce at any meaningful scale.

Your casual reminder that this country has not been able to grow enough food to feed it's people since about 1910. And our most important battle of WWII wasn't fought by Spitfires, but by the Royal Navy in the North Atlantic. If we didn't fight that, we would have starved.

DM me and I'll give you my bank details now.

Filled up the car with petrol today, 4 months from the last time I did it. I've filled it up 3 times since last March, and one time was because I had to go to Southampton to pick up a laptop. At least the pandemic has cratered my fuel bill and travel CO2 emissions.

Also, I live in a 15 minute city. It's called a neighbourhood. Or if you live in a rural area, a village.

But the worst thing about it is how, like any idea that has sense, it gets taken on by people who: (a) Just want to rebrand good urban and street design, or (b) Have a product to sell and to sound cool to millennials. I've seen 1, 2, 5, and 10 minute cities posed. Come on.

At its core is having key services within close proximity. Well, no shit. But that idea has been around for at least 30 years.

I hate to say it, but I kind of agree. It's not a vision. It's not an approach to land use planning. And most transport elements can be summarised as good urban design. It's more a guiding principle.

You know you've been around a long time when half of the things mentioned here came around at least a decade after you first logged on. 😂

The fact that the Western section of the Oxford to Cambridge railway had got some funding is good. But no electrification? Really? All to save a few quid on the build cost? Come on @grantshapps. It's a great railway. Make it better than that.

Just chilling tonight.

One of the best bits of writing on the StreetSpace judgement. Reasoned and sensible, and hopefully a wake-up call to engage with people better. Rules don't just go away because we are in the middle of a pandemic.

This is a bloody good report. And I urge everyone on both sides to read it and take in its lessons. Not to use it to favour your own agenda. Otherwise, the truly vulnerable will get let down again.

Translation: oh shit, people are now beginning to see through the bollocks I've spouted all these years. Better do something that seems important but is ultimately meaningless.

The entire Biden administration is basically going to be "the Simpsons did it."