I like being away, but getting there is becoming less bearable every time I do it. I used to take trips to the USA, Australia and the Far East in my stride but I am now finding even a four-hour flight to be about the limit. Part of this might be age, but there [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Transport'
Something for nothing
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Work
There might be a catch but I haven’t found it yet: just a few limitations. Today there was a stall at work manned by people from something called Easit. They gave us photocards that we can use to get 20% discounts on rail travel.
Compare and contrast
June 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Theyworkforyou.com is a handy site for keeping an eye on what your MP is up to. I like to keep abreast of what my MP is doing and what the neighbouring constituency MP is doing. Yesterday it showed me their respective contributions:
Very alternative fuels
May 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Technology
The story about the financial benefits of petrol-electric hybrid cars in today’s G2 generated a lively discussion in the canteen today. Maybe it was a mistake to involve engineers in such a debate…
All aboard the Tex Express!
November 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
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 [...]
Old Bangers
May 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
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 [...]
Taxi for O’Leary!
October 6th, 2006 · 10 Comments · Life
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 [...]
Blink and you will miss it
July 5th, 2006 · No Comments · Technology, Work
My workplace was on the BBC London news on Monday evening.
Last Thursday some cameras turned up and spent an amount of time filming. Not sure how long as I made sure I was out to lunch at the time, but they were shown around, had everything explained to them and they filmed people at work.
I'm [...]
Unicycle security
June 14th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
We are so used to seeing bicycles chained to lamp posts and railings everywhere that we almost do not notice them any more.
But when you see a 3-metre unicycle chained to a lamp post you have to stop and look. I can’t see it catching on as a form of commuter transport though.
There are some [...]
London Transport
June 12th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
I know just how Martin feels – thats why I try to avoid the tube generally, and especially during the summer, and stick to the mainline trains. Now that all the trains in my region have been replaced with air-conditioned carriages with tinted glass I can feel even more smug.
This would be a good [...]
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