@nxcoventry These roadworks are still in place - is the termination at Oban Road still in effect as I saw a bus come down Wilson's Lane last night (not quite sure how it made it through the roadworks).
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🚌20B
Due to road works at Wilsons Lane and Woodshires Road this service will terminate at Oban Road.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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@nxcoventry These roadworks are scheduled until the 17th November and then there are Cadent works from 20th November until January 12th, 2026. Also there are works planned on Pickards Way/Longford Road roundabout lasting a year. Is the 20B terminating at Oban Road forever now?
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@sainsburys like a lot of other people I'm having problems logging in to update the order for tomorrow - can you just cancel tomorrow's order?
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@greennuneaton @BicycleBenUK I suspect there's a lot of pressure to get it through quickly as the junction is required for construction access - they wanted to use Wilsons Lane but are only allowed to do the STW diversion. Even that has been dangerous as you can see here: youtube.com/watch?v=93l9Pg…
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@pixeltrix @BicycleBenUK I know, it is a total mess with no one knowing what if anything will be built. Greens put motion to full county council so at least the bits with funding will get progressed but reform wanted even those projects halted. May need people to turn up in Warwick on 16th December.
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@greennuneaton @BicycleBenUK Right, but the plan here stops at motorway:
democracy.warwickshire.gov.uk/documents/s430…
The roundabout plans don't link up:
democracy.warwickshire.gov.uk/documents/s451…
The cycle lane from Wilson's Lane stops at the crossing and the plans talk about tying into the existing cycle lane but there isn't one.
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@pixeltrix @BicycleBenUK Adding a cycling lane is part of the improvements that were planned from Longford Roundabout towards Bedworth. Some in Reform think they can unpick already arranged funding & miss out anything for cyclist. That is very bad news for those driving who will have to share with bikes.
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@greennuneaton @BicycleBenUK Is this separate to the B4113 Longford Road corridor improvements? Those stop at the motorway bridge from my understanding and say that it will tie into roundabout improvements but there's no link round the right edge of the roundabout on the s278 plans.
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@BicycleBenUK The bit of the cycle link by the Longford roundabout is funded and ready to go but Reform insist in stopping cycle lanes and handing money back to Government and Developers. We have the issue in effect deferred till the December full council meeting after a heated discussion.
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@nateberkopec If you're mainly working in public repositories 80% of zero is zero - hard to argue to a Delivery Manager you want to use up two weeks of the project's budget on saving GitHub money especially if CI only takes 5m due to parallelization.
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here's what you need to evaluate if this migration sounds big to you:
1. what are you spending on CI, and how much would your company save if it was 80% lower
2. what would you gain in dev goodwill if running tests locally is considerably faster
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@anon_opin I recommend you travel in coach A on an Avanti Pendolino train then - tiny toilet with a manual lock and walls so thin that the people in seats 1&2 can hear everything.
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Nobody wanted button-operated train toilet doors. Physical locks please, and doors that are close enough to the bog that we can hold them closed if the lock looks untrustworthy.
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@TomPMarshall @veronica_humble @Sam_Dumitriu Nothing noted about that in the active travel technical report. It seems that they've marked it low because the study identified didn't measure the affect on obesity rates, only the amount of exercise.
blueprint.nesta.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
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@veronica_humble @pixeltrix @Sam_Dumitriu Compensatory increases in calorie intake?
Exercise leads to hunger.
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According to Nesta, banning two-for-one pizza offers and temporary discounts on chocolate bars would have a similar impact on obesity as a mass roll-out of Semaglutide.
Is this really plausible?
Cass Sunstein@CassSunstein
Combating obesity. blueprint.nesta.org.uk
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@Madz_Grant It also resulted in broken travel-to-work areas - train ticket from Coventry Arena to Leamington Spa is more expensive than one to Wolverhampton.
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Because of Ted Heath’s midwit administrative jiggery-pokery, my birth county no longer has a cathedral, which I absolutely cannot forgive. What are your niche hatreds?
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@coventrycchelp Thanks, just for the record it was broken going the other direction on the way home last night as well.
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@pixeltrix Good afternoon
I have logged this issue with the team, they will investigate it further.
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@coventrycchelp the sensor on Binley Road cycle lane at the junction with Biggin Hall Crescent when heading into the city centre appears to be malfunctioning. I waited for three complete cycles of the traffic lights and there was never a phase for the cycle lane.
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@maxtempers Lots of schools staff like dinner ladies, teaching assistants, etc. aren't paid outside of term time - their salaries are pro-rated and spread out over the 12 months makes it seem like they do, but that's not the case.
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Considering it’s not term time, why doesn’t Birmingham council just enlist the hundreds of dinner ladies in reserve to collect the rubbish? After all, it’s the same job.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Birmingham bin workers have rejected the Council’s latest offer to resolve the strikes
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@owenboswarva Yeah, that paper is very nebulous and I can't see anything on GitHub that resembles anything as described - if GDS were engaged it must have been killed before any code got written.
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@pixeltrix The 2023 paper mentions an "integrated database" which I took to mean collating the data itself rather than just reorganising the presentation of existing releases on GOV.UK. The idea was then to move from quarterly to monthly publication of transparency data.
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Confirmation that UK Labour has cancelled the central platform for transparency data announced by Tories in 2023 questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
Strengthening Ethics and Integrity in Central Government (July 2023, pg 5) gov.uk/government/pub…
#opengov #opendata #datadiscovery #govtech
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@owenboswarva Was the portal just pulling together existing transparency data?
There's a transparency document type in the GOV.UK content store: docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/document-types…
and pulling out the content is just an API query:
gov.uk/api/search.jso…
Seems like it's mostly done?
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The Minister's point about funding is disingenuous. Her predecessor told MPs in October 2023 that GDS had been engaged and work was underway – so a decision to stop the project must have been made more recently. committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1… (Q207)
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@WebDevLaw In 2014 went to Facebook HQ to mentor students for the weekend in contributing to OSS as part of their Open Academy project on a ESTA waiver. FB picked up the tab and they said I didn't need a visa - would not trust that now.
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@bradgessler @_swanson @User As long as your models follow REST naming you can use arrays with link_to to remove the need for url helpers, e.g.
<%= link_to "Delete", [:admin, user], method: :delete %>
Works with form_with as well, e.g.
<%= form_with(model: [post, comment]) do %>
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Rails URL helpers would be better if you could leave `_url` and `_path` off the end.
In views, a path like `new_user` would default to `new_user_path` and in a controller it would default to `new_user_url`. Full methods would keep working to override.
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@thomasforth At uni a friend lived nearby and we went to the Woolpack for a drink - there was a horrible stench from the sewage works over the other side of the hill which hopefully has been fixed now. I was impressed that the actors could hold it together whilst doing their scenes
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@Sam_Dumitriu I guess Coventry CC will be back in court over this objection for a completely different cycleway 🙄
edemocracy.coventry.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDis…
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I should note this wasn't the only cycle lane to be taken to court in the last week.
x.com/Sam_Dumitriu/s…
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu
Coventry City Council want to build a bike lane. Some local residents don't like this idea and sued the council. The Judge threw out their lawsuit, but the cost of fighting still falls on taxpayers. This is why we need wholescale reform of judicial review.
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Is it possible to build a cycle lane in Britain in 2025 without facing a legal challenge?
Oxford Clarion@OxfordClarion
The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the new Oxpens River Bridge from the Friends of Grandpont Nature Park. The pedestrian and cycle bridge, linking forthcoming developments at Oxpens and Osney Mead, is now clear to go ahead.
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