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#The Cohost Local Feed (Brighton & Hove)


Brighton & Hove is a famously progressive city in the UK whose council (despite leadership changes) has had an ongoing mandate to reach net zero by 2030, and roll out transportation infrastructure that favours walking, cycling and public transportation.

Because of the local politics, it has basically been able to continuously roll out upgrades (large and small) on streets across the city without any significant impedance to progress to my knowledge. It's not perfect, but it's an extremely noticeable difference compared to the UK baseline.


An excellent and sorely needed project will be under construction starting this winter, which is a complete overhaul of the Old Steine roundabout and intersections with North Street, St. James' Street and the 3 seaside roads.

This is an extremely busy intersection for pedestrians, personal vehicles and buses, linking up many different bus lanes and many important tourist destinations (such as Brighton Pier and Brighton Pavilion) on foot. This area is kind of hellish and clearly in 1960's mode: loaded with car lanes, narrow paths, uncomfortable crossings and no segregated cycle paths. Getting from one side to the other can take 3-4 pedestrian crossings. There are many bus stops, all spread out in places that are not hugely intuitive and walking to another can take a few minutes.

This project will complete a fully physically separated north-south cycling corridor through the direct center of Brighton, connecting it with National Cycle Route 2 on the beach. It will give pedestrians greater right of way and generally really clean up what is a generally not a great looking chunk of the city with trees and improved lighting.

It carves out more dedicated bus routes and it seems like it will make the layout of bus stops around Old Steine less labyrinthine.

It also seems like street-side parking will basically be eliminated outside of specific circumstances (eg. a few parking spaces for a nearby GP practice) and disabled vehicle users.

It is pretty excellent - the main issue I have is that further north, the segregated bicycle lane takes space away from an already crowded pedestrian area. This will almost certainly lead to pedestrians overflowing into the bike lane, which is what routinely happens nearby on NCR2 west of Brighton Pier.



It's the first time I've seen it so up close. The clockwork nature in which all the local businesses are putting up rainbow flags in time to catch the loose change from the drunk straight people who will be coming down by train over the weekend. It's sad.

Especially pissed off with the 2010's sanitised 'love is love' and 'proud' bullshit slogans. You can't say anything provocative and specific. You can't demand the rights of trans youth. You're only doing it because it's pride weekend. In Brighton. This is 2% of the city's yearly economy in a blowout tourist weekend.

I'm telling myself the fact that queer people inadvertently being the city's mascots is a price to pay for living in a city with a sizeable - and noticed - queer community. IDK how much that is me rationalising something I can't really do anything about.



The Level is a somewhat small park in Brighton's city center. It's pretty nice. It has a sizeable modern play area, a splash park and a skate park. It's an important space in an area of the city that can be quite lacking in greenery and public space.

I don't go there that often but the two times I've been there in the past 3 days, creepy evangelical Christians have been making their moves in the space and generally just bothering normal people.

  • Friday afternoon: There were like a dozen or so creepos in bright blue shirts, announcing a free Texan barbecue and handing out 'literature', some of them even decided to go and talk to some of the poor normal people who were just hanging out in the park, sometimes two to one. I'm sure that felt great.
  • Sunday evening: An incredible douchebag, apropos of nothing decided to set up a projector and loudspeakers to bombard the whole park with some Christian concert nobody came to see, being an absolute nuisance to everyone else just having a nice evening.

As the lord says...

Be as annoying and in other peoples' shit as you can. This is 100% the best way that people will like you and ascribe to your cheesy ideology

If they had some regressive ideologies they would have been absolutely swarmed in queer and anti-fascist protesters, but tbh, these people could really do with a morale drop regardless. There aren't many parks in the city center, it's none of your business whether or not someone is a Christian, go fuck yourselves.



Brighton Trans Pride was on Sunday. There was a whole march and everything. And a dance tent playing sick tunes.

It was a weird and exhausting day for me. Met a bunch of cool people I know, both expectedly and unexpectedly.

Notable groups in the march I did not photograph:

  • Kickass pirate group
  • brat-themed group
  • Furries
  • A straight norse-styled shamanic couple around the sidelines, one holding a sign made of tree branches and the other holding a wand of theirs.