Adam Tranter

NEW EPISODE! 🚨 London’s road danger reduction plan under the microscope. What will it take to achieve Vision Zero by 2041? Is it possible? With @willnorman, @adamtranter and Laura Laker. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahead/…

@prescott_t69476 Actually, I'm a cab user when it's the best option. You really need to be more worried about the thousands of autonomous taxis coming soon, driving around in circles, getting rid of jobs, subsidising fares from private equity funds.

@adamtranter 9000 black cab drivers gone , driving our mainly battery fleet is a misery, but the cycling and climate change zealots are more than happy to see this constant lose of jobs

If you can, walk for your short journeys. It's pleasant and it is free. (By doing so, you free up the roads for those people who really need to travel by motor vehicle)

These four photos were taken from the same location in Manchester. We should make buildings beautiful again, taking inspiration from 19th and 20th century styles.

The left holds Paris. Emmanuel Grégoire is new mayor, succeeding Anne Hidalgo. He beat the right by about 51%-40% say estimates. Many factors mattered, but clear that voters endorsed left's transformation of Paris into biking city. See my @FT column as.ft.com/r/7840a393-8fb…

@alexgkendall I think this really highlights how much better an option the Elizabeth Line is from central London to Heathrow.

Day 4, video #4. This hour-long, zero-shot autonomy video is a route I've done many times: from our London HQ to Heathrow 🇬🇧 Starting in London forced us to build autonomy that could scale. Compared to SF, London has 10x more cyclists, 15x more pedestrians and 20x more roadworks. This is what we've built at @wayve_ai. Check it out!

@CyclingLawLDN @TheGriftReport The cameras are also [check notes] bright fluorescent yellow.

@TheGriftReport Most cars these days tell you the speed limit of the road. Not to mention the thousands of signs and road markings also displaying the limit. It’s hardly “invisible”.

SADIQ KHAN'S STEALTH SPEED CAMERA ASSAULT ON LONDON DRIVERS! TfL is rolling out new hi-tech radar cameras that DON'T flash and need NO white lines or road markings at all. Drivers get ZERO warning, you'll only discover you've been caught when the penalty notice lands on your doormat. The sneaky units can cover up to 5 lanes, detect ghost plates and work 24/7. Already trialling in 10 boroughs as part of Khan's Vision Zero crackdown. The war on motorists just went fully invisible!

@10to15percent Not usually in NCP car parks.

@adamtranter Where do the residents park?

The city centre car park has had its day. There is now a significant opportunity to put the land previously used for car parking to much more productive use. Land that could be used for tens of thousands of homes in city centres. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@asianick85 Yes, the city centres have been doing brilliantly with abundant parking. If people live in city centres in actual good mix use developments, there will be people to sustain high streets.

@adamtranter You numpty. If there is nowhere to park, the city centres will die.

@NorfolkGazza66 Lots of people living near high streets will naturally support them. We already tried it with abundant car parking near high streets and it hasn’t worked.

@adamtranter 1 million empty homes in the uk, why do we not use what is already there🤷‍♂️. High streets are struggling and you want to make it more difficult for them 🤦‍♂️

@climbtechy Yes but now landowners have a forced choice: find another operator for a business model which is failing and which the demand is falling - or finally sell up for housing.

@adamtranter NCP is just an operator and not the owner

The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n

Families can’t even appeal because causing death by careless driving isn’t covered under the unduly lenient sentencing scheme. The whole thing is disgusting.

The judge rightly asked why this was not causing death by dangerous driving. It is possible the CPS and the defence negotiated a guilty plea to the lesser offence of causing death by careless driving to guarantee a conviction, albeit with a lower sentence.

In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@murdomitchell11 @boredland069 You can even see people in the high viz jackets ushering people into Teslas.

@boredland069 @adamtranter 1. Trains can run automatically. People are needed to man the stations, same is true for tesla. 2. A single subway car breaking does not break a whole line. The cost per seat of a subway car is lower than a car. 3. The cars still need to be cleaned, and security is still needed.

Rather awkwardly, the most innovative part of the Vegas Loop is the multi-coloured lights. The Boring Company are very proud that, over five days, they were able to carry 16,400 passengers per day - using a system that takes everything that is inefficient about cars and tries to pretend it is a form of public transport. To put it into perspective, London’s Elizabeth Line carries 800,000 passengers per day and almost as many in one hour as The Boring Company achieved during the whole expo. Even in the late 19th century, the Metropolitan and District Railways were running trains roughly every 2–3 minutes at peak once the system matured, ferrying 12,000–18,000 passengers per hour per direction. And that was steam-powered using infrastructure built 160 years ago. So, to be clear, Elon Musk’s “future of transport” transports between three and four times fewer people per hour than we were able to do in 1863 London. Urban transport efficiency comes from large vehicles, shared journeys, and frequent service. Cars — whether they’re electric or autonomous or on roads or in tunnels — do the opposite. If the goal is moving lots of people quickly through cities, why design a system with the same constraints as cars? Cities: please don’t waste any more time or money on this. We have the solutions: trains, metro, trams, buses and bikes.