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Our latest post about the transport industry and technologyCILT Fellows Lunch…Jolly Good!
Well here we are again, it is that time of year again, all of Santa’s little helpers have served time on the naughty step and those who have been good are on their way to the rather splendid Copthorne Tara Hotel in the Royal borough of Kensington. To no doubt enjoy...
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Transport Select Committee…Digging Deep
I recently saw a photo on Faceache as someone called it of several fine and decent fellows, who I know, who were snapped in a well known London boozer, located close to the House of Commons. An establishment that I have to confess I have enjoyed the benefits of in the...
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Life? A Glass Half Full, Or Half Empty?
One of the many joys of writing blogs, is the fact that to be quite honest, you never really know just where the journey is going to take you. Now, the theorist may advocate that you should simply follow the age old principle of following a beginning, a middle, and an...
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Rail Fares Going Up Again? What The Dickins?
It is always a strange time of year this officially the last day of Autumn, as the curtain closes on November, and the Christmas tree is officially hoisted outside number 10 Downing street, the phenomenon known as the festive season is almost upon us. So, surely that...
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Driving With Disabilities, Comes To Us All , Ho, Ho, Ho
So, there I was minding my own business watching the BBC breakfast news at silly o’clock on a Thursday morning, having enjoyed another night of insomnia care of the side effects of chemotherapy. To be honest there is absolutely nothing good about sleep deprivation,...
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A Sad Day At Stagecoach Midlands.
I have just watched the BBC1 national news, where after Brexit and Trump, the third story was about the outcome of a trail at Birmingham Crown Court. Where a 77 year year old relief bus driver had lost control of his bus, and crashed in the City centre of Coventry....
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uTrack Website Blog 1,000: Cancer Chemotherapy Day 1
Well, this was it after 6 weeks of being at home building up my strength, eating good wholesome food and doing regular exercise at the gym, (pedalling on the spin bike at varied high resistance gears, doing Tai Chi which I started doing 2 weeks after I came out of...
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National Express Reunion….A Right Good Duo!
I was delighted and surprised some five years ago to receive an invitation from a very nice chap called Mike, who asked me if I would like to attend a reunion of former National Express employees, contractors, or indeed anyone who had anything at all to do with...
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Disruption – The New Normal?
Our good friends at Transport Focus, have only gone and done it again, yes they have just published the findings of a series of excellent workshops held at a bus Company very close to my heart, namely Brighton and Hove Bus Company. The purpose of the exercise was to...
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Community Transport Under Threat
One of the many strange things that this post Brexit world has thrown up has been some recent legislation that is being investigated by various user groups following requests for input by the Department of transport and civil servants to try and get some guidance on...
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Alex, Andy, and Vitto, Electrifying Harrogate With Super Buses.
One of the many things that really impressed me when we recently went to Harrogate was the sheer enthusiasm of the three key people that we had the pleasure of meeting. Alex Hornby I have known for a fair few years. I have watched with interest as his career has...
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And At The Going Down Of The Sun, We Will Remember Them.
Somewhere tucked away in my mums attic is a photograph album which belonged in the past to her mum. Contained within its pages are three photos of my mums mothers two brothers. They both served as soldiers and fought at the Western front. Of the three, they all...
read moreThe Brexit Drama Continues…
I was trying to work out today as I watched the whole sorry Brexit drama play out on the national media if this was the single most important historical event that has taken place since the end of the Second World War. My conclusion was that actually without doubt it...
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Doing Bird…..Prison Life
I was watching a Netflix documentary recently about a man called Steven Avery, now the world is clearly split into two halves, those who know about this case, and those who don’t. This is by any stretch of the imagination an extraordinary and bizarre documentary. In a...
read moreThe Bus Industry At The Crossroads?
The good old bus and Coach Industry has been through some turbulent times of late after thirty plus years it’s been stripped of funding since the austerity years. In addition congestion has got worse, patronage has declined and is now plummeting in London, which had...
read moreBrexit: The Lemmings Are Gathering At The Cliff Edge
So there I was writing a blog about the UK Bus Awards when I heard on the radio, formally called a wireless. That apparently not false news had broken, that a technical agreement had been reached between members of the UK and EU negotiators after deep and long...
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UK Bus Awards: The tension Mounts….
Well, the judging has been completed, the debates and lively discourse have finished and now it is time to reveal the winners from this years bumper crop of entrants as the great and the good will gather at the quirky and fashionable Troxy in central London. To be...
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Highways England: Christmas Comes Early
The most recent budget saw the Chancellor Mr PHilip Hammond donate a huge amount of money to Highways England so that they can spend more money on roads. In fact he donated more money to repairing pot holes than he did for supporting the police force. And this in a...
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