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166  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Fare rises '24 - first talk based on current inflation figures on: August 11, 2023, 06:49:47
Who do you think wants to win the election?
167  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Ticket Office Closure Consultation on: August 04, 2023, 06:52:57
One assumes that the vast majority of those will not be in favour of the idea. Elsewhere that number would be sufficient to get a debate in parliament?
168  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Driving vs Active Travel: Changing Our Cultural Perceptions on: August 03, 2023, 10:03:13
Sorry they appear to be coming thick and fast recently
https://www.ciht.org.uk/blogs/driving-vs-active-travel-changing-our-cultural-perceptions/
Could have added something about sustainable travel.
169  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / The CIA and cycling on: August 03, 2023, 09:59:26
In case you are short of conspiracy theories this week:
https://www.willcycle.com/2023/08/01/the-cia-and-cycling/
Enjoy
170  Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: Island Line services, Isle of Wight. General discussion on: August 03, 2023, 07:21:03
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rather more impressive (ie noisier) SRN6
which I think you can now find one at the Hovercraft Museum at Lee-on-the-Solent https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/collections/, on the site of what was HMS Daedalus. Mention of the Interservice Hovercraft Trials Unit, reminds of when I was a youngster living on Hayling Island and they used to use the area in Chichester Harbour just south of Thorney Island.
171  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Re: Climate, what climate? on: August 01, 2023, 07:36:24
Don't expect anything anytime soon
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SRN [Strategic Road Network] investment should prioritise maintenance of existing roads over the building of new ones. Transport Focus noted in its written evidence that drivers would prefer to have better maintained and managed roads over new ones, and the AA found that its members were most concerned about potholes. Yet RIS2 allocated £14.1bn for new and enhanced roads – more than it did for operations and maintenance. The committee recommended that if necessary, funding put aside for costly new road projects should be reallocated towards existing road upkeep.
Source: https://www.cyclinguk.org/news/transport-committee-report-amplifies-concerns-about-new-roads-and-traffic-growth
From https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/41071/documents/199999/default/
172  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: HS2 - Government proposals, alternative routes and general discussion on: July 30, 2023, 07:26:20
The "official" verdict https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66352286
173  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Climate, what climate? on: July 30, 2023, 07:22:09
If this thread is more appropriate elsewhere please move.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66351785

I am not sure I have a polite/considered response to this. Presumably have to get rid of all these cycle lanes next; they are always empty (because they move traffic more efficiently?)
174  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Railway History and related topics / Re: What's the link? on: July 28, 2023, 07:08:22
Similarly the former Jacksons shop in Reading, and many others in the past.
175  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Book early for Christmas on: July 25, 2023, 10:22:04
In Oxford “They’ve prioritised cyclists over small businesses” apparently
https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-25-july-2023-302751
I will agree that Broad Street has become a bit of a mess, with, parking(?), stalls and cycling. Was confused last Saturday, you come in on one side of Broad Street and then cross over to the other side, surely it would have been easier to just have a straight lane?

Is there a prize for being able to get another W word in the following  “woke wonkery of the worst kind”?
176  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Cycling in Reading on: July 25, 2023, 10:06:50
Nice to know I not the only person of this opinion.
https://mas.to/@sccook@mastodonapp.uk/110768333226318456
Although I can't see it changing any time soon, especially after the Uxbridge result.
177  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / More work on NCN route 4 along the Kennet and Avon on: July 25, 2023, 10:02:04
Another section of the patchwork of improvements to the towpath along the K&A.
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/news/2023/july/active-travel-improvements-underway-on-canal-towpath-near-aldermaston/
If it is the section I am thinking of it will certainly help, although lots work needed between this and the previous section they did by Burghfield.
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It will also improve access to the water for boaters, as new bank protection is being put in place along the canal.
Is presumably a diplomatic way of saying easier mooring for the ever increasing number of residential boats along the K&A.
178  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays on: July 25, 2023, 09:47:07
Some facts and figures of possible interest

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-passenger-numbers-and-crowding-on-weekdays-in-major-cities-in-england-and-wales-2022

Infographic suggests that there is still a number of people using Marylebone

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/rai02-capacity-and-overcrowding
179  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Has political support for railways waned? Are they important to the PM? on: July 24, 2023, 06:58:52
It has been said that Sunak, or his advisers, see themselves as a Thatcher to beat the unions. So the coal miners were beaten and effectively we have no coal industry. The result of the Uxbridge by-election has called green issues in to question. So are railways caught between a rock and a hard place (whatever the unions do).

As Electric train says
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Problem is all Governments irrespective of the colour of their rosette suffer from strategic myopia when it comes to committing government funding, they are willing only to see as far as the next general election
Hence how many elections did we have to wait for the NHS Staffing Plan, and when we got it the promised new places are unfunded.
180  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Re: All 204? on: July 22, 2023, 07:35:34
There’s a challenge (working out which ones you could reach by train, that is) that I could not resist!
I think the answer is 169, with most of the unreachable-by-rail maps being those for the Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides, and remoter parts of Scotland (principally in the Highlands, but also a few in the Southern Uplands and Borders). Sheet 95 is the Isle of Man, and 190 is the only one entirely in England with no rail connection (Bude & Clovelly).

So how long do you think it would take a reasonable person with a Gold Card? Not saying the man on the bicycle was unreasonable, just more motivated than most of us. A challenge for Geoff Marshall?
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