Anna Cook

@hellobeatrix Have done this. Was hell

I try not to enjoy the pleasures of schadenfreude but people ignoring advice and planning travel to Japan in the height of summer is an exception.

@evancondry 🔥

@simonhackett I am DYING to know the backstory on this. There are lots of talented ppl that have worked on that site, why isn't it fixed 😳

Every time I see this BoM page I shed a tear for the lack of IT expertise in government. Happy new year :)

@hellobeatrix It's absolutely shit, sending you lots of love xxx

Grief is exhausting. You just get through being sad because it’s Christmas season, and then it’s time for being sad because of birthday and wedding anniversary season, only to roll into being sad because this is when it all went down time.

@shavo27 I cycled in Girona recently and got treated like a goddess! Hard to come back to this shitshow 😅

For context, Jimmy Whelan is a pro rider. Spends a lot of his time in Girona, Spain and across Europe. We all know how bad the road culture is here, and we just accept it.

@disco___cat The overseas (UK at least) perception is that Aussies are relaxed and fluid with rules. The reality is a bunch of dobbers horny for rules

The Australian impulse to ban everything in sight is quite hard to culturally adapt to as a migrant unless you are already that way inclined - I wonder if people who are primarily motivated by safety v freedom will move here in larger numbers further reinforcing it over time?

@Andrew_Godman Cars do suck. Though I enjoy the extreme schadenfreude of sailing past gridlocked traffic

@Anna_Cook When I worked in the CBD I rode to work from Thornbury then later Preston after moving for about 1.5 years. It was quicker, cheaper and I got very fit. I don’t know why people have such an issue with biking infrastructure. Cars suck

The year is 2058. The Melbourne bike lanes have been ripped up and reinstalled for the 62nd time. The average daily temperature is 45° and trees no longer exist but the council is still unsure on the viability of sustainable transport

@yarrabike @wheelreinvent Finally some unity, we're all fukt together ❤️

@Anna_Cook @wheelreinvent That awkward future where people finally realise wet bulb events care nothing for whatever political preferences 🫠

@WAJ_Webster Welcome to dystopia (still the most livable city)

@Anna_Cook Cars… still can’t fly and the new government is a reformed vape importer with a firebombing policy so the heat is all good.

@kyd_presentabl All life (and bike lanes) are ephemeral ohmmmmm

@samwa I wonder if the hook turn is a Melbourne invention

@Anna_Cook Because there is no right turn I'm guessing. Normally cycling in London is faster than driving so merging right is not as dangerous as in Melbourne

A hook turn spotted in London

@samwa @AllEnergyAU Private jet, naturally

@Anna_Cook @AllEnergyAU Pick plane just to muck up their data

If @AllEnergyAU doesn't recognise cycling as a mode of transport, what hope do we have 😅

@ksyd2015 Unfortunately results were inconclusive so the pedestrians were painted grey as a compromise

@Anna_Cook But there are half a dozen community consultation projects underway to get at least 200 submissions from local residents (only citizens who own property) about which grey colour to paint the edge of the sidewalks with.

@Urban_Immerser Nothing, the future is much the same 🫠

@Anna_Cook Wait, what did I miss?!

@shavo27 Hahaha, speed limited of course. No fun for you in the apocalypse!

@Anna_Cook Or it could go the other way where the water level rises, leading us to kayak from A to B. The state government mandates helmets to keep us safe.

@GlennRiseley HAHAHA

@Anna_Cook But on a more positive note, the state government has just announced another bold new plan to build a train to the airport to be completed by 2070.

@caneyehoe Because it is competing with a significantly superior product 😉

think its deeply evil that something (famously) made in melbourne is cheaper to buy in the uk than it is here

Whoopsy, looks like someone forgot to buy the COP29 domain cop29.com

@MerribekBUG @bicycle_network @CoburgCycling My downstairs neighbour had one of these! It was probably the only thing keeping him alive 😆

In 2011 we gave away 500 new bicycles to residents of Coburg and Pascoe Vale (at Coburg North Primary School) as part of our O'Hea Bike Town project. Did you get an O'Hea Bike Town bike? We'd love to hear from you if you did! PM us or email committee@morelandbug.org