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Post by NomadCris on May 26, 2021 19:43:00 GMT
Exactly,computers were supposed to eliminate the need to commute to offices, not build call centres and HQs that folk have to commute hundreds of miles to just so employers can watch your every move. Live in the country and especially if retired youre fucked without a car but it makes no sense that one car someone owns is taking a long journey with driver alone in the car to do work that could be done at home. We also need to get rid of this inflexible 8-4 9-5 working hours mentality,make work time more flexible and stagger commuting times and school hours to reduce the concentration of vehicles on the roads at any one time.
Life is entirely oriented around the private car and the commercial interests of the motor industry...It needs radical change.
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Post by bernie on May 26, 2021 21:06:43 GMT
Take Cornwall and South Wales, two areas I know intimately. Unless you lived in the few main urbanisation you are completely buggered without a car. There are buses, average one an hour but they zig zag around the villages and are painfully slow. Not cheap either if you have to pay. A lot of them stop about 8.30pm
So the real question is, why in Cornwall are they building so many out of town estates of crappy ticky tacky boxes miles from anywhere? Timber framed, I have had better built sheds In London the buses and underground network is brilliant, credit where credit is due, and the busses in particular are flat fare. It used to be £1 now I think its £1.20 but you just tap in with your card and can go anywhere. A lot of routes run a restricted service all night too.
Once you are 60 in London its all free, trains and busses
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Post by NomadCris on May 26, 2021 21:11:31 GMT
Nearest bus stop to me is almost two miles away and same infrequent meandering journey. I may as well walk into town. I lived in London 40 years ago and buses and tube were pretty good,didnt need a car. I had a bike.My car was nearly always parked up until i went home every few months. Traffic around London was nowhere near as bad as it is now.
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Post by bernie on May 26, 2021 21:49:49 GMT
Nearest bus stop to me is almost two miles away and same infrequent meandering journey. I may as well walk into town. I lived in London 40 years ago and buses and tube were pretty good,didnt need a car. I had a bike.My car was nearly always parked up until i went home every few months. Traffic around London was nowhere near as bad as it is now. I don't find traffic around london so bad except they have deliberately put measures in to disrupt traffic flow, Take the traffic lights on Marylebone road where Baker St crosses. Your light goes red and you stop but its a whole minute before the cars start crossing the other way. Then they stop but its another minute after they stop before your light goes green. And a minute is a ferkin long time when you are sitting there thinking whats going on ? Then you move forward and the same thing happens at the top of Great Portland St. and so on down past Euston Station and Pentonville road towards Kings Cross. And you are thinking I am paying £8 a day congestion charge for this shit? Oh and any van over ten years old its £200 a day. My 13 year old van is only exempt because they produced a car varient of my van and they can't differentiate
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Post by NomadCris on May 26, 2021 22:01:22 GMT
You get that with traffic light phases in most cities. All the lights for every direction on red so long everyone is convinced theyve malfunctioned. Not many cities seem to have synchronised lights on a route so you end up with a situation where only two or three cars get to move on to the next controlled section. Very slow progress and especially frustrating when youre driving a 44 tonner. Getting through Acton to Brentford M4 used to do my head in with a truck. Dont know what its like now.
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Post by NomadCris on May 27, 2021 4:26:03 GMT
Not my favourite person by any stretch but the only one with the balls to tell it like it is and call out the abject failure of this Government to prevent Covid ravaging the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57254915
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Post by bernie on May 27, 2021 8:36:56 GMT
Not my favourite person by any stretch but the only one with the balls to tell it like it is and call out the abject failure of this Government to prevent Covid ravaging the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57254915He's a bitter man trying to smear the people who sacked him. The only person who will be damaged by this is him at the end of the day Professional suicide in exchange for a few hours in the limelight?
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Post by VanWoman84 on May 27, 2021 9:12:10 GMT
Does the fact Cummins is bitter make what he is saying any less the truth? Yes, there's likely to be exaggeration, but there's no smoke without fire. Would he have said nothing if he was still in post? Yes, he would have kept his mouth shut.
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Post by NomadCris on May 27, 2021 10:49:51 GMT
I doubt Cummings cares much what people think of him he never has. Nor can you smear a teflon coated snakeoil salesman by telling the truth about them. The propaganda dept and BBC will do their best to smear Cummings and set a different false public narrative but the chaotic way Covid pandemic was handled here,especially in the early preventable stages cant be denied and was revealed in detail in the press by the Times no less, early last spring and quickly buried by official waffle. I expect theres a few sacked government members and a few prominent Tory backbenchers who'd have plenty to say too but for their own political self preservation. Johnson did a few things right much too late but he is no hero and doesnt deserve being regarded as one especially not to the families of the thousands who died needlessly or the possibly millions whose businesses and livelihoods have been trashed by successive lockdowns. The only thing for certain is what Cummings has said will quickly be buried and Government will move smugly on as before.
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Post by bernie on May 27, 2021 22:15:32 GMT
Does the fact Cummins is bitter make what he is saying any less the truth? Yes, there's likely to be exaggeration, but there's no smoke without fire. Would he have said nothing if he was still in post? Yes, he would have kept his mouth shut. Nobody I don't think would believe the pandemic wasn't chaos, events happening outside of the realms of anything that had ever happened before. How do you make decision when you have no idea what you deciding on or what will happen next? For Cummings to sit there now, after the event and say "should have done this" or "should have done that" just proves he is a vindictive asshole out to destroy the people who sacked him. Clearly things could have been done differently, but did anyone know that at the time?
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Post by NomadCris on May 27, 2021 23:48:54 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on May 29, 2021 9:31:05 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on May 30, 2021 17:30:13 GMT
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Post by bigbear67 on May 30, 2021 17:33:33 GMT
What a fucking obscene waste of money. Apparently the royal family don't even want a bastard boat, they never used the last fucker....😕
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Post by NomadCris on May 30, 2021 17:36:43 GMT
Would have thought we needed more fast ferry services like the old hovercraft link or hydrofoil across the channel to deal with the backlog of goods than a useless grandiose waterborne hotel lounge for rich knobheads like Johnson. "showcase the best of British" its like getting the best china tea service out to impress guests when you live in a derelict hovel. Hard to believe we've got such out of touch 18th century morons running the country.
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