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All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: UK incoming passenger quarantine
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on: May 11, 2020, 21:14:56
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employers would expect that 2 weeks isolation to be taken as holiday or unpaid Not necessarily, I had to self-isolate for 7 days in mid-March for a week, and the rest of my family under the same roof for 14. Nobody stopped working. That was then, moving forward into the "new normal" employers may take a different view Surely this is going to depend on whether your job can be done from wherever you're in quarantine? If quarantine is interpreted to mean 'stay at home' and you can work from home, all good. If it means actual quarantine* in isolation from others, with medical and social oversight, such as healthcare facility or requisitioned hospital, then less likely. Both Cyprus and NZ, to my random knowledge, have implemented the latter; those are just the ones I happen to have heard of personally, must be many others. But in UK▸ it would quite likely mean 'stay at home', judging by our implementations so far. *But wouldn't that be for 40 days not 14?  |
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All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: How do we ensure a restart does not replace a health crisis with a climate one?
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on: May 11, 2020, 12:52:23
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Some towns and cities have been implementing various measures to encourage people to use public transport or walk and cycle, and measures to reduce car use (and possibly ownership) by their residents, but these are piecemeal and dependent on the authority and its leaders. The only thing approaching a national strategy for this is for central government to put pressure on local authorities – presumably because they (Westminster) see coming out and saying "we've got to stop driving so much" a vote loser. But without that national push, it's never going to work. Residents of car-dependent areas are not enabled to be car-free when visiting those places, just made to pay more for parking...
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All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: How Bus Usage Will Change After Lockdown?
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on: May 09, 2020, 18:46:51
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Bus Lady makes many excellent and valid comments. In the longer term, operations could be financially sustainable if we can shift car users onto bus and train and spread this across the day. This may be out best opportunity but will require local authority, community and workplace collaboration to deliver the shared vision. Shift from car will require much greater public transport capacity. This will be easier for bus to deliver.
I can't see that happening at all. I think it will be the other way round; previous bus users will be driving. The problem with buses (and to a slightly lesser extent trains) will be not just capacity but fear. |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Campaigns for new and improved services / Re: Two views of a discussion
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on: May 06, 2020, 15:19:13
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Similarly the banks on the Cromford & High Peak, but in my view you’d be an absolute nutcase to try to cycle down those in the first place (that Catch Pit at Cromford was put there for a reason!!).
I found it hard to envisage any gradient a railway could get up that might be too steep to cycle down, so I had to look this up. So it isn't or wasn't a conventional railway: hauled by static steam engines using cables. But the steepest gradient was 1 in 7, according to Wikipedia. That's about 14% – steep for a train but not excessively steep for a road. There are residential streets in Bristol which reach 40%! So you'd hardly be a nutcase to cycle down Bunsall Lower Incline (the steepest section according to Wikipedia). Apologies for making you work! It was a welcome distraction from the work I'm supposed to be doing! As are the photos, even more so. |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Campaigns for new and improved services / Re: Two views of a discussion
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on: May 06, 2020, 13:43:50
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Similarly the banks on the Cromford & High Peak, but in my view you’d be an absolute nutcase to try to cycle down those in the first place (that Catch Pit at Cromford was put there for a reason!!).
I found it hard to envisage any gradient a railway could get up that might be too steep to cycle down, so I had to look this up. So it isn't or wasn't a conventional railway: hauled by static steam engines using cables. But the steepest gradient was 1 in 7, according to Wikipedia. That's about 14% – steep for a train but not excessively steep for a road. There are residential streets in Bristol which reach 40%! So you'd hardly be a nutcase to cycle down Bunsall Lower Incline (the steepest section according to Wikipedia). |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Campaigns for new and improved services / Re: Two views of a discussion
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on: May 04, 2020, 19:34:15
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The Bristol to Bath cycle route is also part of the National Cycle Network. In parts this quite successfully runs cycle and rail next to each other. Either end might have cycle commuting element, although the bulk of the route is less likely. Can proposed rail projects satisfactorily combine cycle and rail?
There are quite a lot of people who cycle-commute between Bristol and Bath, in both directions. Right now probably more doing that than by train...  In any case, while another rail line between these places would no doubt be useful, it would be indirect compared to the existing route and the only new places it would serve would be parts of east Bristol. I feel there are other lines which could be reopened to greater benefit; Portishead for one, which will also have to share parts of its route with a cyclepath (or divert that path – I don't know what the detailed proposals are there). |
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