Tag: traffic
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Taking to the streets
For the first year in a long time I’m not involved in this year’s Civil Act of Remembrance, and it’s given me a moment to consider some of the wider implications of the event less connected with the thing itself. I’m not ill, but Janet was covid positive for fifteen days solid and only went…
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It (still) isn’t easy being green
A lot of my time at the moment is occupied by an impending planning application in my village. It’s for a new railway station, and there is a large part of me that goes, yes! Public transport, accessible in the village, has got to be ‘a good thing’, right? Buses come and buses go, and…
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Designing Roads…
I’m not a civil engineer nor a highways engineer, but I’m sat in the middle of a village where we’re probably due to double in size in the next decade, and the main and only through road is historically narrow and crossed by a railway line with a blind bended hump backed bridge. Traffic is…
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Currently reading – Stealing Into Winter, by Graeme Talboys [Kindle Edition]
Ok, so how this came about was… Leaving the south Wales valleys, having done considerable thinking work in a substation (as you do), I made the poor choice of taking the new Second Severn Crossing and the M5 northward to home, rather than the old Severn bridge and the back roads… It wasn’t the only…