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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Transport'
Fastway failure fame?
May 12th, 2006 · No Comments · Technology
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 [...]
Seeing the Sultan’s Elephant
May 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
I have been looking forward all week to seeing the Sultan’s Elephant up in London. It even overshadowed the elections in my mind a bit – lets face it there are elections every year but the chances of getting to see another 40-foot high, time-travelling mechanical elephant again are pretty slim. Jayne and I took [...]
Tags: Art·London·Photos·Railways·Sultan's Elephant·Traffic·Transport
Safer driving
April 4th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
A report by the Transport Research Laboratory is suggesting that young drivers should have various restrictions placed on them in order to reduce fatal accidents (and non-fatal ones too I suppose). The restrictions include having new drivers not carrying passengers younger than 21 and not driving at night. Without reading the report itself, or the [...]
Missing the bus (route)
March 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Life, Politics
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. [...]
Two things I did today
February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Life
1. Stood on the platform at Clapham Junction and watched two trains for Brighton arrive within 4 minutes of each other. Both were so crammed that the station must surely be thinking of hiring some of those people the Japanese metro has to push commuters into over-full carriages. These were immediately followed by a nearly-empty [...]
First time for everything
February 20th, 2006 · No Comments · Life, Technology
Today we put our car (an 11-year-old Laguna) through its MOT and it passed. First time. I have never had a car pass the MOT first time. There is always something which needs replacing or adjusting or repairing, even if its just a blown indictor bulb or headlight alignment, although its just as likely to [...]
RIP The Gatwick Express
February 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Life
The news about the Gatwick Express could be extremely handy for those of us living in Crawley. BAA Gatwick argued strongly for its retention, and I can see their point of view. It is a good service to offer travellers – a direct train into London where it is impossible to get off at the [...]
My favourite car
January 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Life
Unfortunately this is only a model, but one day I will get my hands on the real thing…
Runway Three
January 16th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
I found this story in today’s G2 more than a bit depressing. Living in another airport town it is of some relevance to me as well. I’ll be honest, I had never heard of the village of Sipson. I just assumed the growth of Brentford, Slough and Uxbridge had resulted in urban sprawl around most [...]
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