Donkeys Under the Rainbow

A fund raising day at the Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary with a range of stalls in the large barn keeping dry during the shower. We then visited the donkeys with special attention to Chocolate.

Swindon traffic flow

What transport system do you want to see in our local towns and city's?

Please post your comments what are our priorities
speed of around town; public transport; low CO2 emission; cost; available parking for cars in town or on outskirts for Park & Ride (P&R)

In the last 20 years travelling across town to work I must have wasted hours of my life in jams both in the car or the bus.

Why do the buses not go to where you want?

Why are Swindon residents who paid for P&R schemes encouraged NOT to use them by the Council?
Why was a P&R not built at Commonhead next to the hospital?
This would have taken the traffic straight from the motorway into the P&R instead visitors an commuters drive slowly in jams to town centre expensive parking or in resident areas.
The P&R buses could meet commuter and hospital needs in one trip
It would have resolved the car parking at the hospital with maybe a better bus service going to the area reducing the number of cars traversing town
Why in 20 to my knowledge following all the many costly traffic surveys I have witnessed have no improvements been made to main pinch spots.
Why is there not continuous fast bus lanes around town
the model for the magic roundabout is very much now outdated and the video below shows what should be done at Bruce Street bridges, Gorsehill , White House bridges etc. etc.
Do away with expensive jam forming CO2 producing roundabouts and traffic lights (how often do you sit at traffic lights for no reason just because of a red light!!

Rant over, idnbi


The ANSWERS?



Have look a Saigon traffic videos

Simulacrum

The first ipod?




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum

I had not noted this in my diary

It seems Jon & i have a performance what of who knows at the Fox & Hounds soon

floating bonfire

Very Many thanks to the Riverside, Lechlade the excellent show of fireworks and the massive floating bonfire.

Day out @ Chessington World of Adventure

Chessington World of Adventure was the venue for our day out, cheap tickets from Last Minute saving money and quite long queues then to find out it was an extended opening times till 8.00 for halloween.

The log flume was good fun shortish queue with two drops make your mind up was it fun (Jordan) or frightening (Megan)