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recent bookmarks from andrewduckerAutonomous robo-taxis now driving themselves on British streets2026-04-16T14:59:29+00:00
https://news.sky.com/story/autonomous-robo-taxis-now-driving-themselves-on-british-streets-13531630
andrewduckerLondon UK taxi automation drivinghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e16e8b6e669f/A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London2025-12-20T23:01:50+00:00
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-train-sized-tunnel-is-now-carrying-electricity-under-south-london-86221/
andrewduckerelectricity infrastructure tunnels London UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b26e830c5964/Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down a street drain2025-10-22T08:57:16+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo
andrewduckerwaste water location regulation UK Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:98c934f8d161/60 minute video of uninterrupted AI driving in London. (See comments for times of interesting points in the video)2025-10-16T11:21:09+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KvctCbVEvwQ&si=Rz7IcMR2RHjkkvSx
andrewduckervideo automation driving London ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:68b63c6c782c/Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London in 20262025-10-15T10:49:30+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/waymos-robotaxis-are-coming-to-london/
andrewduckertaxis automation Technology london ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9fd46917178f/Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London2025-07-01T07:54:44+00:00
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/edinburgh-is-making-history-but-success-is-being-taken-for-granted-5201087
andrewduckeredinburgh london gdp economy scotland ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3764eb2832fb/Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry2025-05-14T17:42:59+00:00
https://www.anthonybaines.co.uk/blog/2021/9/2/crossness-pumping-station-seduced-by-symmetry
andrewduckerart design architecture history London UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d1bfba876ecc/London's Low Emission Zone reduces sick leave by 18%2025-05-10T23:50:21+00:00
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268125001143
andrewduckerpollution cars London healthhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a197666bdce2/Youth Demand reacts to arrest for plans to ‘shut down London’2025-03-30T21:04:09+00:00
https://www.channel4.com/news/youth-demand-reacts-to-arrest-for-plans-to-shut-down-london
andrewduckerprotests UK Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:063f43591ca1/Upgrading the London Underground for driverless trains would cost tens of billions to save hundreds of millions per year, taking centuries to pay off2024-11-30T10:04:40+00:00
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tfl-abandons-plans-for-driverless-tube-trains-77435/
andrewduckertransport tube London automationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:27153ac92378/Why is London's phone signal so bad? (Central Edinburgh is also really bad)2024-11-15T12:30:27+00:00
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/why-exactly-is-londons-phone-signal?open=false#%C2%A7why-is-the-phone-signal-so-bad-in-london
andrewduckerphones epicfail londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f14a59101552/Ulez has cut children's school car rides2024-09-05T11:30:13+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw8envvv0do
andrewduckertransport pollution london children school GoodNewshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5bcc43724371/A 3-D London Tube Visualisation With Moving Trains2024-07-25T08:46:46+00:00
https://londonist.com/2013/08/3dvis
andrewduckerlondon tube visualisation viaSwampershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8108a8d854ce/What's it like being The Mayor of London in a world of conspiracy and deepfakes?2024-03-26T09:10:28+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/mayor-of-london-sadiq-khan-ulez-conspiracy/
andrewduckerconspiracy fraud London politics UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:be0d74078599/Why improving traffic around the M25 is so hard2024-03-15T20:54:59+00:00
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1768566977721688142.html
andrewduckerLondon roads transporthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cdd29be522fb/BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel2024-02-21T11:51:54+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68352275
andrewduckerlondon architecture bt hotel history postofficeshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8b66c5173d0c/Explainer: Why a bale of straw is hanging from the Millennium Bridge2023-10-18T10:28:43+00:00
https://www.cityam.com/explainer-why-a-bale-of-straw-is-hanging-from-the-millennium-bridge/
andrewduckerhistory bridge london lawhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f033068e7eff/1,000 Met Police officers suspended or on restricted duties (That's about 3%)2023-09-20T12:01:23+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66842521
andrewduckerpolice London UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3561ea534030/London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using a robot2023-09-13T12:19:59+00:00
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/guys-thomas-hospital-first-perform-robot-operations-b1105331.html
andrewduckerrobots surgery uk londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:726d2230941f/Is Ulez working? The impact of the ultra low emission zone on toxic air levels in London2023-07-29T16:39:01+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/is-ulez-working-the-impact-of-the-ultra-low-emission-zone-on-toxic-air-levels-in-london-2512955
andrewduckerpollution London transporthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:05462d46f495/Tories pick Trump and Truss supporter London mayor candidate2023-07-19T11:27:05+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/susan-hall-tory-london-mayor-candidate-b2377979.html
andrewduckerConservatives london doomhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cd944ad652fc/Tory MP Wants To Build A Million More Homes In London2023-07-14T14:07:08+00:00
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tory-mp-calls-million-homes-london
andrewduckerConservatives housing londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c3cd350ee1a6/London faces a measles outbreak of tens of thousands of cases unless vaccination rates improve2023-07-14T10:16:15+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/london-measles-outbreak-cases-vaccine-rates-ukhsa-2478254
andrewduckervaccination london OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4ec1631711b6/Inside London's new 'super sewer' that promises to return nature to the Thames2023-05-15T10:21:57+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/inside-london-super-sewer-nature-thames-2336802
andrewduckerwaste water london ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ea5049793e2a/Transgender woman and gay man targeted in Whitechapel arson attack hate crime2023-04-26T08:15:24+00:00
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-fire-brigade-police-transphobia-lgbtq-whitechapel-flat-arson-b1075478.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=article_banner&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_content=2
andrewduckerlgbt transgender bigotry london ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5a1994b1243c/Crossness Pumping Station: London's Beautiful Sewage Station2023-04-17T08:04:25+00:00
https://secretldn.com/crossness-pumping-station/
andrewduckerwaste beauty londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:82abee0f5827/A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London (I've been on one of Tony's walking tours and he's an academic who really knows his stuff)2023-03-30T19:07:15+00:00
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-greek-and-roman-mythology-walk-around-london-tickets-602666239947?aff=eand
andrewduckerLondon Greece Rome history UK walkinghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:caabbae6d5b8/Superloop: Major New Bus Network Planned Around London2023-03-28T09:39:30+00:00
https://londonist.com/london/transport/superloop-bus-network-tfl
andrewduckerbuses London transporthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f33970c7c326/Met Police is racist, sexist, homophobic and may harbour more killers, damning report says2023-03-21T09:07:01+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/casey-report-met-police-racist-sexist-homophobic-predators-review-2221483
andrewduckerracism sex homophobia lgbt bigotry police london ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3cde82d80494/Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In City Of London2023-03-20T15:18:13+00:00
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/
andrewduckerlondon cycling cars transporthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3cb2b074e39f/If you're in London you should go see The Wolves in the Walls2022-12-11T20:08:29+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UPSRaqFcguY&feature=share
andrewduckerwolves theatre puppets video London neilgaimanhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:63609fe78ed1/London Fire Brigade is institutionally misogynist and racist, independent review concludes2022-11-26T08:44:41+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/london-fire-brigade-institutionally-misogynist-and-racist-independent-review-concludes-1995797
andrewduckerracism misogyny fire London UK OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:17b3bf466385/The black cat cigarette factory, an interesting piece of London's historical architecture2022-11-25T15:57:40+00:00
https://lookup.london/carreras-cigarette-factory/
andrewduckerarchitecture cigarettes London Egypthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bd7fe703eb1d/A list of funny petty crimes in London2022-11-03T09:31:57+00:00
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1073163135312384001?t=SsTSjjqWuy_8BeCOT4bdQA&s=09
andrewduckerLondon crime funnyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cf127db04aef/The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display2022-10-06T09:15:16+00:00
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-city-of-londons-oldest-document-is-currently-on-public-display-57746/
andrewduckerlondon historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7e1caf386eba/The Queue is the greatest piece of British performance art of all time2022-09-14T16:15:04+00:00
https://twitter.com/curiousiguana/status/1570067806028464128?t=r_LqBq064zB8aaNVmMSwLQ&s=09
andrewduckerUK funny Queen death Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:59601bf93841/West London faces new homes ban as electricity grid hits capacity due to data centres2022-07-28T09:02:49+00:00
https://thelondonpress.uk/2022/07/28/west-london-faces-new-homes-ban-as-electricity-grid-hits-capacity/
andrewduckerlondon data electricity computers housinghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:073128d31c8b/Poliovirus may be spreading in London; virus detected in sewage for months2022-06-22T21:51:23+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/poliovirus-may-be-spreading-in-london-virus-detected-in-sewage-for-months/
andrewduckerdisease UK Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9783e301469e/London’s police are guilty of systemic sexism, racism and homophobia2022-06-06T09:26:21+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/metropolitan-police-sexism-racism-khan-b2094258.html
andrewduckersexism racism homophobia police london ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2735ea769771/Automatic for the People: Driverless Trains and the London Underground2022-05-09T10:13:43+00:00
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2014/driverless-trains-piccadilly/
andrewduckerautomation tube trains london ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:197d13f2fd8f/Crossrail update on the Elizabeth line’s opening plans (fiddly technical work that I'm fascinated by and glad I don't have to deal with)2022-03-26T15:46:33+00:00
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/crossrail-update-on-the-elizabeth-line-opening-plans-53030/
andrewduckertrains tube London transporthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bdcce938bd25/London's smallest flat is up for sale for just £50k2022-02-10T11:08:42+00:00
https://www.mylondon.news/news/property/londons-smallest-flat-up-sale-23002109
andrewduckerlondon housinghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c351c52d608d/2 bed flat for sale in London - with ridiculously massive bunker2021-12-09T17:23:45+00:00
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59557159/
andrewduckerproperty London wtf viaSwampershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0a1f3d7672f8/New London to Edinburgh rail service to start2021-10-21T09:12:39+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58992509?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
andrewduckerLondon Edinburgh trains transporthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3a5ec6582e94/Revealed: the grim list of sex abuse claims against Metropolitan police2021-03-21T12:23:09+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/20/revealed-the-grim-list-of-sex-abuse-claims-against-metropolitan-police
andrewduckerpolice London UK rape abuse OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ac0d8eeac8c6/Met Police are happy to beat up women, but anti mask idiots are free to march as much as they like2021-03-20T18:27:50+00:00
https://twitter.com/AdamJSchwarz/status/1373269728370757636?s=09
andrewduckerprotests police OhForFucksSake London UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fd2eca920c8f/Government plans to change London mayor elections to First Past the Post2021-03-16T20:38:03+00:00
https://www.cityam.com/government-plans-to-change-mayor-of-london-elections-to-first-past-the-post/
andrewduckervoting democracy London OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8891432884af/What sequence of events led to the Met violence at the vigil?2021-03-14T13:38:39+00:00
https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1370999870576791566
andrewduckerpolice violence London death law UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:88ec742aaf52/Who actually has the power to get rid of the Metropolitan Police Chief, and how do they do it?2021-03-14T11:28:02+00:00
https://twitter.com/garius/status/1370997719678980101?s=09
andrewduckerpolice London UK politics lawhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5d8b1b133059/Here's the Met Police violently attacking women holding a vigil for a woman one of their officers murdered2021-03-13T20:40:23+00:00
https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1370823777739808773?s=09
andrewduckerpolice murder video London UK OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:91cbbfbb7583/London will be overwhelmed by covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS England briefing2021-01-07T07:17:37+00:00
https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/exclusive-london-will-be-overwhelmed-by-covid-in-a-fortnight-says-leaked-nhs-england-briefing/7029264.article?storyCode=7029264
andrewduckerLondon UK pandemic Doomhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0a231d576e14/Covenants, Easements & Wayleaves: The Hidden Urban Interfaces Which Shape London2020-10-27T20:59:47+00:00
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/covenants-easements-wayleaves-the-hidden-urban-interfaces-which-shape-london-part-1/
andrewduckertube London transport law architecture history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e0304e61a7f9/Why Transport for London's finances are far from healthy2020-10-27T11:42:26+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54652907
andrewduckertransport tube London moneyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8c8b44cf9f99/Private rents in London plunge by up to 34% amid Covid crisis2020-10-22T09:51:25+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/oct/21/private-rents-london-covid-crisis-cities-britain
andrewduckerLondon rental GoodNews pandemichttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c9e22ca701d9/Met police body-worn video footage reveals poor communication, a lack of patience, and a lack of de-escalation before use of force is introduced2020-10-19T21:32:04+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/19/leaked-review-of-met-police-body-worn-videos-reveals-officer-errors
andrewduckerpolice London cameras transparentsocietyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dd3658f11228/Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew2020-09-25T01:01:50+00:00
https://twitter.com/kirstylewis6/status/1309244883023126530?s=09
andrewduckeralcohol pandemic London UK videohttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:25a80c4e9bd7/Seeing the tube map for people with wheelchairs makes it clear how hard London transport is for them2020-08-09T08:58:49+00:00
https://twitter.com/KatiePennick/status/1290633426081644544?s=09
andrewduckerdisability London tube appshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:094056bf89d7/Parts of civil service will move out of London2020-07-12T15:39:01+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53380590
andrewduckerLondon UK CivilServicehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0159c4f840dc/Why Boris Johnson's call for driverless Tube trains is a political stunt2020-07-06T21:32:22+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/news-analysis/driverless-tube-trains-boris-johnson-tfl-underground-a9604686.html
andrewduckerpolitics trains Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1863f2ca7104/London’s oldest theatre discovered in East End excavation2020-06-10T08:33:15+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/london-oldest-theatre-red-lion-whitechapel-east-end-a9557036.html
andrewduckertheatre London UK Historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7a0e8284a9de/Walking the route of The Canterbury Tales2020-05-31T13:25:54+00:00
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1266588280885297152
andrewduckerlondon uk history writing viaDanielDWilliamhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:86f270ef7e59/Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased2020-05-15T15:16:05+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/15/large-areas-of-london-to-be-made-car-free-as-lockdown-eased
andrewduckercars transport Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e04a5fcfda8e/New discovery suggests London’s story goes back more than 3,000 years longer than previously thought2020-04-09T20:45:50+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/london-history-prehistoric-ceremony-site-archaeology-a9455621.html
andrewduckerLondon archeology prehistoryhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7d260b362619/British Archaeologists Discover Huge Stash of Victorian-Era Beer2020-03-26T19:32:06+00:00
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/british-archaeologists-discover-huge-stash-of-victorian-era-beer/
andrewduckerarcheology London alcoholhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a74a0143baf3/London hospital’s critical care unit overwhelmed by coronavirus patients2020-03-20T21:23:22+00:00
https://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hospitals-critical-care-unit-overwhelmed-by-coronavirus-patients/7027189.article
andrewduckerLondon hospital Doom pandemichttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0df9b2979bf3/There's nothing in the London coronavirus story about what happened to the Uber driver. Who will have then picked up dozens more people!2020-02-13T13:28:58+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/13/london-coronavirus-patient-turned-up-hospital-uber-taxi?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_News_Feed
andrewduckervirus london taxi doom viaSwampershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:211748a7e9ec/Police begin operational use of Live Facial Recognition in London2020-01-24T15:51:17+00:00
http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451
andrewduckerlondon faces Technology policehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e9d58aac8aeb/London bus drivers could strike - so exhausted that they're falling asleep at the wheel2020-01-06T12:03:11+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51005755?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter
andrewduckersafety transport buses london workhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a552d2c6c31c/This account of Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero of London Bridge is epic2019-12-03T06:28:28+00:00
https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1201446735945580544?s=09
andrewduckerterrorism heroism london video ViaDrCrosshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:92e5a15a8205/Uber loses licence to operate in London after 14,000 trips taken with unlicensed drivers2019-11-25T12:00:06+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/25/uber-loses-licence-london-tfl
andrewduckerdriving london taxi OhForFucksSake regulationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:655516e05c34/