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November 15, 2005
A THOUSAND visitors
I'm not a great one for page counts on web sites - the last thing you want to be told when you visit Tesco is that you're their 1000-th customer that day. However, I made an excpetion on this site by putting a visitor counter on our front page so that anyone (including you, and including any represenatives, officials and decision makers who come by) can get a realistic impression of the interest that this one personal site alone has generated.
Ladies and Gentlemen, in just three months from a standing start, we've had over 1000 DIFFERENT visitors here. "There was little reaction when we published our consultation document" say the folks who put out the invitation to tender for the Greater Western Franchise, and who am I to doubt them? But perhaps that was because the withdrawal of the TransWilts service was hidden deep in a long document which (in its web form at least) was at an obscure URL. Did you know that papers published in September under Freedom of Information even reported discussion between various groups of civil servants as to how they could lessen the reaction to consultation!
I put it to you that a thousand visitors to this site represents many more who would be interested too if they had stumbled across it (it's just my private site, remember, with a domain name I registered for 2 quid and worked on by my wife and I!), and many many more who aren't on line and looking.
27000 tickets sold last year ....
A nearly full train last Wednesday when I was last at the station ...
Queueing in thge tourist information behind people booking for the Santa special ...
Please, Mr Whitehall, be brave and actually respond to the interest and give us the service that we're crying out for and which I'm sure you know, in your heart, WILL continue to boom.
Posted by gje at November 15, 2005 11:27 PM