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Telford wants to be a speed camera pioneer
Telford & Wrekin Council are on the offensive promoting their plans to put average speed cameras on the A442 dual carriageway through the town and surprise, surprise, the BBC have stepped in to do...
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Genius
According to South Worcestershire Police accidents were up 1,000% the other day thanks to the icy road conditions. I’d be surprised if it was only 1,000% here in Telford because the roads on Wednesday...
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Confused?
The General Secretary of OPEC, the group with de-facto control of the world’s oil supply, has said that No Mandate Brown is “confused” about oil prices. Abdalla Salem El-Badri wasn’t best pleased with...
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Power to the people
On the outskirts of Telford is an industrial estate, Hortonwood and next to it a small village, Horton. Access to the village is via a narrow road, Horton Lane. Horton Lane is relatively unknown but...
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Croesco i England
It’s my birthday on Saturday and I’m off work tomorrow so, as tradition dictates, I popped to a nearby Chavda to buy some cakes and biscuits. As I was driving back through some roadworks I noticed the...
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Leading by example
I don’t know if any of you have ever been to Telford but it has approximately 300 traffic islands per head of population. Yet despite this dubious accolade, virtually nobody in the town knows how to...
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
The British government is seriously considering dropping the national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph. There will be an option for local authorities to increase the speed limit on major roads back to...
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Telford’s Burning
I went for my daily walk from the office to the shopping centre in town today and as I was walking over a bridge over the railway I smelled smoke, looked over the side and saw that there was a fire...
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East Coast Railway to be nationalised
The British government has announced that it is nationalising the East Coast railway franchise after National Express made a half year loss of £20m. Lord Adonis, the unelected Transport Minister for...
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Bloggers4UKIP: European Empire releases road pricing sales video
74% of residents in Edinburgh voted against a road pricing scheme. 79% of residents in Manchester voted against a road pricing scheme. 1.8m people signed a petition on the Prime Minister’s website...
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Asda starts fuel price war
Asda have dropped the price of their petrol and diesel to below a pound a litre, saying “There is no justification for any major retailer selling fuel above £1 per litre”. Good for Asda, there is...
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Slide to the left …
Nope, nothing to do with the Cha Cha Slide. Samoa is changing which side of the road it drives on from the right to the left. The reason given by the Samoan government is that they’ll be able to...
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CEP: Glasgow Mean Time
The clocks went back an hour this morning to mark the return to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Every year since 1916 – excluding the second world war years – the clocks have changed twice a year, bringing...
View ArticleShropshire Council traffic officers lying to councillors
The Department for Transport issues guidelines on village speed limits for local authorities in England. It defines a village as a settlement with a minimum of 20 properties with a frontage on a 600m...
View ArticleOxfordshire speed camera propaganda
The BBC News website has a non-story about speeding statistics at the site of two switched-off speed cameras in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council couldn’t afford to keep the speed cameras going...
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HS2 is going to be a hugely expensive white elephant
I was driving home from a friend’s house on Monday evening and listening to a BBC “local” radio show being broadcast on BBC Radio Shropshire discussing, amongst other things, HS2. The presenter was...
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Idiot trade unionists strike over dangerous driver
Members of the Aslef trade union went on strike this week in solidarity with a London Underground driver who was transferred from the trains to station duties. The driver in question failed to stop for...
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JLR job losses are not caused by Brexit
Jaguar Land Rover has announced it is cutting 1,000 temporary jobs at JLR plants in Halewood and Solihull. Remainers are, of course, blaming the job losses on Brexit but the blame is being put...
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Turning over a new Leaf
So, one of the things that happened during my lengthy blogging hiatus is that I bought one of these. The car, not the child. It’s a Nissan Leaf or as it is regularly referred to, a milk float. But...
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It’s been a while
I really don’t have time for blogging any more, what with the reality of work, kids and a new partner but I’m sat here on a train in Euston station waiting for one of Richard Branson’s minions to find...
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