Andrew Saffrey

@mapsman.bsky.social

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💼 Transport planner, highway engineer and urban designer
❤️ Beer, language, architecture, active travel, food, music, geography, politics, fatherhood, Brentford FC ⚽️, rugby league 🏉 
📍 Costa del Stoke, Coventry 🐘mapsman@mastodonapp.uk ℹ️ Woke AF

Arthur Atkinson had an uncanny resemblance to Paul Whitehouse 🤔
Commonwealth Games graphic as used by ITV midlands news
A photo of framed poster with the legend “could it be sepsis?” In the same typeface and similar colours to McDonald’s advertising
A cartoon by Andy Singer: the top imagine is a congested road with the caption “public investment”; the bottom image is a picture of an electric tram with the caption “wasteful subsidy”
National Cycle Route branding on a direction sign pointing to South Mimms Services
Still from the IT Crowd with the caption below Jen (played by Katherine Parkinson) saying: “I’m too tired for revolution”
Snip from: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrrm864.htm
A hotel booking reminder email for an unglamorous English town.
Screenshot of Spotify wrapped “listening age” of 65 years old.
A photograph of British Conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg with his childhood nanny Veronica Crook
A screen grab of an Everton FC social media post showing their new stadium with Meta’s AI-generated questions referring to “Rotterdam stadium” 🙈
A still from the popular TV cartoon show “the Simpsons” with Beatnik versions of the normally strait laced Flanders family. Beatnik Maude is saying “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
A stopped clock is right twice a day
Screen shot of a map showing a location called “Kinnell Crossroads”
Photo of a Chinese restaurant in Leicester called Big Wang
Photo of a Peugeot Partner Van with a business name of “Pumps and Stumps” written on it. The business offers services in beer cellar and cricket ground maintenance.
Latest in a string of headlines in the business/finance/management press which tramples on likely made up or petty indiscretions of the working people.
Daily Telegraph headline: “Britain doesn’t deserve to host the World Snooker Championships”
Screenshot of headline that reads: “London’s Woolwich Foot Tunnel is closed until further notice”
BBC News headline: “Road closures planned for Sikh procession”
Screen shot of article reporting Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzlement
Hannah Fry grapples with a huge sausage
Vince McMahon reactions in ascending order 1) choir practice 2) new suit 😗 3) haircut 4) curry for dinner
Vince McMahon reaction meme in increasing order: 1) walk into town 2) cooked breakfast 3) oat latte 4) pint of stout before 11am
A screenshot of BBC news with a headline for a story about David Baddiel criticising Chester as a place to live
Llyn Brianne spillway with a bridge at the bottom of the race
Who wants to travel in a straight line anyway? Another ridiculous indirect bus route depicted on a map.
A map showing a bus route that zig zags in a way that adds 10-20 minutes to what could be a simple and direct corridor.
Headline from New York Post explaining that Trump’s presidential inauguration would not take place outside due to the forecast cold weather
A photo of two bottles of port
Another screenshot of a BBC news story about a closed bridge due to government funding restrictions
Another local bridge is also suffering issues.
Screen shot of BBC headline of news story about multiple failed funding bids for money to repair a concrete flyover whose emergency closure has led to the suspension of rail services and traffic disruption
Screen shot of Spotify app with Kraftwerk “Autobahn” showing as the currently playing track
Screen shot of sky sports news with the headline “Jesus bags hat trick”