Stumbled over this little nugget referencing Crichel Down and Crossrail https://www.burges-salmon.com/news-and-insight/legal-updates/crichel-down-rules-new-latest-case-law-guidance should be good for some lawyers.

Government guidance at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/compulsory-purchase-process-and-the-crichel-down-rules-guidance

Chocolate tea pot anyone?

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67073446

And the plastic wands separating the car and bike lanes. Don't know if the barrier is still there. The main problem is that there is no "legal" way of getting from the Kennet towpath to Sidmouth Street (short of carrying on to Watlington Street ...). The pot of money they didn't get was to connect the towpath to Sidmouth Street, can't see why they thought they would get the money for not seeing the problem they were creating in the first place

Reading Borough Council complain they are being short changed on the cycling grant https://road.cc/content/news/council-blames-slashed-cycling-and-active-travel-budget-304313
is that useful I have never even seen a delivery bike on it.

Certainly there is a Twyford Abbey in London.

Not sure adding "-on Thames" to Staines made it more attractive. Glad somebody sat on the idea of adding "-on Thames" to Didcot. If they hadn't what next, Basingstoke on Thames?

NOT on more roads to get people to the next traffic jam quicker. Better value repairing/maintaining local infrastructure

And in Winchester they suggest that it is not a great idea https://road.cc/content/news/cyclists-warned-not-park-train-station-theft-hotspot-304197

Maybe another name for your Wiltshire trains, from the Wiltshire flag, the Great Bustard. There again liable to mis-spelling.

Like the side of Thames Valley Police vehicles.

Bus fares in rural England drop 11% thanks to government's £2 fare cap
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bus-fares-in-rural-england-drop-11-thanks-to-governments-2-fare-cap
How does this translate to the income of the companies who run the buses? I believe the number of rural bus routes has continued to decline this year.

You could possibly have seen more of a bus if it hadn't been a Lodekka!
Can't remember was it just top deck or both that were lowered. Sorry I came from a Leyland buses area.

For those who want to investigate for themselves

https://data.police.uk/data/

where small numbers apply or expected extract for a longer period. Shoplifting is included as one of the categories.

BTP^▸ (British Transport Police) have their own site, which aslo includes shoplifting as a category

https://crimemaps.btp.police.uk/data/?q=Reading,%20UK#station

At least some of the routes are now walking and cycling trails, although I am sure more former routes could be added.

Did West Cowes, Newport, Sandown, Shanklin and Wroxall last Saturday, a most enjoyable trip.

This is, of course, a larger problem than just railways https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/case-studies/archived-mental-health-case-studies/zero-suicide/