Posted on 10/01/2017 19:33
Saw on the news all the wailing and moaning about the difficulty of getting into work for those living in London.
If it helps -
- We have no Tube system round our way.
- The nearest station is 5 miles away, with about one train per hour, going to two towns that I never go to.
- I think there are a few buses each day, not sure where they go to.
But somehow, we manage.
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Posted on 11/01/2017 18:15 by WherenextAn elderly neighbour was telling me last week about his equally elderly brother who still lives in the family home in a village between Mold and Holywell in Flintshire. He has had his driving licence revokeddue to failing eyesight and relies on the twice daily bus service to get to these towns, both of which have a community hospital which he attends regularlyas well as coming in to do his shopping etc.
He has just found out that the bus service will stop calling to his village due to "cut backs".
Londoners will soon be back to normal whilst George won't. I know who I sympathise and empathise more with.
Posted on 11/01/2017 21:55 by IanHI heard one of the poor Londoners moaning that he had to walk home from work......and it took him an hour to do so!
If only!
I wonder if these cosetted people had any sympathy for me, when I had to drive 70 miles each way to work, for 4 years?
In fact, I have rarely worked within an hour's drive of home.......you have to go where the work is.
The spending on public transport in the south east is massively more, per person of the population, than anywhere else in the UK. And the spending goes on apace, with schemes such as Crossrail sucking in billions of pounds.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have to sort out our own transport.
Posted on 12/01/2017 10:41
A drive of 70 miles is nothing, as those who commute daily to London from as far away as Newark and have moved there to get a "better life"
Or those who have to drive to work in any area ,including the Home counties,and spend hours in their cars,
The transport links have improved dramatically since i used to commute by car from Sheffield,and would be even better in all areas if a certain Mr Beeching was not instructed to shut huge amounts of the railway system
Posted on 12/01/2017 20:08
I have no problem with closing the railways......they are 19th century technology and, unless you happen to live close to a station that has trains that actually go somewhere that you need to go, rather pointless.
So that rules out much of the population.
Money needs to be spent on roads......not on that old fashioned system of rails.
Posted on 12/01/2017 21:01
Not sure that part of the population that makes in total 1.65 billion rail journeys a year would agree!!! In some parts of the country they are actually undoing Beeching and rebuilding the lines.
Of course all sorts of transport needs to be supported including roads but so do local bus routes.
David
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Posted on 13/01/2017 08:03
I honestly cannot remember when I last chose to go anywhere by train from here.
In the sticks, it just isn't practical, overall is much slower, and very very expensive compared to 2 people in a car going door to door.
Very different nearer the bigger cities I am sure, and I imagine most rail jouneys involve bigger cities and or longer distances.
Oh and buses.. our last bus is at 6pm, very handy indeed.
Posted on 12/01/2017 10:41 by JVB66A drive of 70 miles is nothing, as those who commute daily to London from as far away as Newark and have moved there to get a "better life"
Or those who have to drive to work in any area ,including the Home counties,and spend hours in their cars,
The transport links have improved dramatically since i used to commute by car from Sheffield,and would be even better in all areas if a certain Mr Beeching was not instructed to shut huge amounts of the railway system
Posted on 13/01/2017 20:17
So, my drive of 1.5 hours each way (provided there was no snow, roadworks, accidents, diversions, unexplained delays etc).......so basically, nearly always longer every day, was 'nothing'.
But if Londoners have it for the odd day, that's a national disaster.
Yeah, that's fair.
Posted on 13/01/2017 20:36
The UK's transport problems that vary both in degree and complexity, largely stem from the closure of large parts or the Rail Network. This was supposed to be accompanied by the development of a Road Network, which would be capable of replacing and sustaining the requirements of a Modern Industrialised country.
This has yet to happen.
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Posted on 15/01/2017 10:49 by Firedragon
I just wish someone would come up with a road surface that didn't constantly degrade within minutes of it being laid - you'd think in this day and age..!
Alison
The new 'Thanet Way A299 ' IS being done Alison!! Coast bound between Feb'& March.Other parts are being attended to on the other side from last week .HOOORAY !!
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IanH