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March 08, 2008

The heart says "public transport", the head forces car

Isn't it ridiculous? I'm going to an event called "Social Enterprise and the railways" today - and I'm Driving there - to Swindon. How silly can you get - well - I could have left of the direct train at 19:50 last night. I could catch the hourly but to Chippenham then the hourly train on - but that would leave me with a 56 minute wait as the timetables have been designed to fail the through traveller.

Amongst the speakers is Anne Snelgrove - local MP and PPS to the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly. It will be very interesting to hear what she has to say about the provision of public transport that is capable of meeting the disparate range of travel requirements we have in this area.

Here are some recent links:

New TransWilts Study

Campaign handout - what we have now and what we should have and separate what we have and what we should have sheets.

Travel Watch South West handout fo Save the Train

First Great Western Coffeeshop flyer

Recent Pictures

Posted by gje at March 8, 2008 05:38 AM

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