Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

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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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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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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Today there was a visitor to this site who arrived from New Zealand by searching Google for fastway failure!
Now I know that the Fastway bus service in Crawley has its critics, leading to the local nickname of ‘Farceway’ but I thought that was a purely local phenomenon. Or maybe they were just looking for [...]

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I could not stay for the entire meeting, but read through much of the paperwork and listened to some of the questions and answers, which prompted a few random and unconnected thoughts.

I could not believe how much more serious and businesslike the meeting was than any of the borough council ones I have been to. [...]

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I’m not sure if one person constitutes an angry mob. He was certainly angry enough, but at least being on his own he did get plenty of press attention.
The chap in the photo is Richard Symonds who is to the Crawley papers’ letters pages what Keith Flett is (or was?) to the nationals. I’ll often [...]

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Our new bus system, Fastway, has been a hot topic in Crawley for a long time now, and there is a discussion over here which has attracted a couple of worrying anonymous comments.
A bit of background: Fastway is a guided bus system. Its a good theory. When I first joined the borough council [...]

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