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On 28.04.2017 6:25 PM, Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 28/04/2017 15:36, Offramp wrote: Can you give me an executive summary of the 260 answers your post has generated? Is it YES or NO? To be fair, 250 odd of them have been about public transport in the Cambridge area including a level of name calling and a discussion on metallurgy. So no different to more or less every other thread then. There really should be a Godwin's Law for Cambridgeshire hackney carriage licensing or guided buses. |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:53:10 +0100
Neil Williams wrote: On 2017-04-28 09:43:59 +0000, d said: Even so, I still can't figure out why newcastle was so blessed when other more deserving cities were not. God knows, Birmingham really needs a proper underground system. If it was a city anywhere in northern or eastern europe it would have public transport coming out of its ears. Yeah, Brum does seem to have been left out, largely I guess because of the existence of the Cross ****ty and New St tunnel. Liverpool of course got Merseyrail, which had it been built even 5 Liverpool had the Liverpool Overhead Railway back in the day. Which in the true British tradition of 20/20 foresight was torn down for as far as I can discern no particularly good reason other than no one wanted to cough up for maintenance and repairs. years later I think wouldn't have been a TOC. It's just that at the time BR was in favour - fast forward a couple of years and it no longer was. Merseyrail like the drayton park - moorgate line in london rather eludes definition. Is it a metro, an S Bahn or just commuter rail that happens to have some underground stations? -- Spud |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:39:22 +0100
Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 09:43:59 on Fri, 28 Apr 2017, d remarked: Even so, I still can't figure out why newcastle was so blessed when other more deserving cities were not. God knows, Birmingham really needs a proper underground system. If it was a city anywhere in northern or eastern europe it would have public transport coming out of its ears. Famously "more canals than Venice" which isn't surprising since Birmingham is about 100x the surface area of Venice. Though you were probably more likely to see a drowned shopping trolley or moped than a gondal. However I believe the brum canals have been cleaned up and given a makeover recently. Anyone know? -- Spud |
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In message , at 16:21:36 on Fri, 28 Apr
2017, Clank remarked: Can you give me an executive summary of the 260 answers your post has generated? Is it YES or NO? To be fair, 250 odd of them have been about public transport in the Cambridge area including a level of name calling and a discussion on metallurgy. So no different to more or less every other thread then. There really should be a Godwin's Law for Cambridgeshire hackney carriage licensing or guided buses. I'll mention it to Hitler, next time I see him. -- Roland Perry |
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On 28.04.2017 8:00 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:21:36 on Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Clank remarked: Can you give me an executive summary of the 260 answers your post has generated? Is it YES or NO? To be fair, 250 odd of them have been about public transport in the Cambridge area including a level of name calling and a discussion on metallurgy. So no different to more or less every other thread then. There really should be a Godwin's Law for Cambridgeshire hackney carriage licensing or guided buses. I'll mention it to Hitler, next time I see him. I have images of Zombie Hitler rising from the grave in despair muttering "for Christ's sake, he really thinks he knows more about gas fitting than me..." |
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In message , at 17:15:02 on Fri, 28 Apr
2017, Someone Somewhere remarked: Going back to the Cambridge guided busway, trying to do a pub crawl along its length is a dreadful idea - I tried it once - most of the stops are nowhere near the villages they serve. That's because, ten years later, they've only just started building the new town it was intended to serve. That might just have a Wetherspoons style pub/bistro one day. Here's one on the edge of St Ives not that far from the end of the busway: https://goo.gl/maps/DndRvXqWkbu and another in the previous Cambs 'new town", Cambourne: https://goo.gl/maps/PWrCHRbYtrr -- Roland Perry |
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