Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

According to the Argus “A councillor has won a battle to secure better public transport links between West Sussex and the new Eurostar station in London.” Well done to him… except he hasn’t. We already had perfectly good ones and he has persuaded TfL to provide the option of a worse one for anyone […]

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One of the many advantages of living in Crawley is that it is halfway between London and Brighton. The trip from London to Brighton is a popular one for motoring events, so it is not unusual to see, for example, whole fleets of minis or VW Combis going through town if the owners’ group […]

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Richard Symonds has been having a moan about a suggestion that some new houses might have indicators installed which tell the inhabitants when the next bus is due outside.
I can't help thinking that if a certain house in Bewbush had such a gadget back in October 2005 it might have looked something like […]

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Now there are two petitions: you can either petish against it or petish in favour of it.  Either way it won't make a lot of difference but go ahead if it makes you feel better.
Personally, although I drive a car (well.. own one anyway. Jayne won't let me drive very often) I can't get too […]

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I am quite impressed with the Crawley News this week. At that time of the year, between Christmas and New Year, when everyone has been off work, you might expect the local papers to be full of nothing more than fluff but they have attempted a bit of proper journalism.
Actually two bits, but I […]

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This is probably old hat now, but I only saw it today and it made me laugh. It is always good to see queue-jumpers getting their come-uppance! Watch out for the 4×4 - its the best bit.

We have one of these rising bollards at Broadfield stadium as part of the Fastway system. If […]

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I couldn’t believe some of the stuff in this article in today’s paper, and the bit next to it.
Living in a town where the economy is pretty much dependent on the aviation industry, its interesting to read about how the business model for these economy airlines works, but isn’t it amazing what we will tolerate […]

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I am back up in Doncaster again, but staying in a different hotel this time.
This one is outside the town centre, so there are no crowds of drunks outside in the early hours, nor booming nightclub music. It is also a larger, cleaner room with a smoke alarm installed.
On the negative side, being out of […]

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That last post about Cheals roundabout reminded me about the recent mad scheme from John Redwood about ‘improving’ traffic - the one about allowing left turns at red traffic lights.
It might work back on his planet, but I can’t see it working here. Ok so they do it in America, but America has very […]

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Someone is being bit useless. I do not know whether it is our county council or Southern railway, or a bit of both, but there are some new local information maps at Crawley station.
These maps have the logos of Southern and West Sussex county council on them so I figure they are jointly responsible. […]

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