Recent content by tiptoptaff

If you were going to do that, would have just been easier to build the relief road.

Even when complete, HoV wouldn't cope with the volume of traffic that would force on to it, nor would the A48 as people try to avoid the Toll if they were driving to anywhere between Newport and Neath, for which the HoV wouldn't be a viable alternative. HoV is massively out of the way of the...

For me it depends on the time penalty. In the above example, I'd happily change trains to save 2hrs

Yes. Yes it is. That stretch of the M4 is always extremely congested and causes huge delays any time from 2-7pm on a week day, and a chunk of days on weekends. Those were what was spouted at the time but it's not true. You can't modal-shift inbound and outbound HGVs

And yet it was sorely needed. And still it. It cripples South Wales and that decision will do for decades to come. Unfortunately, improving the 46 bus in Trebanog doesn't solve the issues that the M4 relief road would have. 1713541954 One of the biggest points of contention qas that Welsh...

They kiboshed a huge, well-paying local employer because a handful of vocal NIMBYs. Economically it was a poor decision. The cancelling of the relief road was a poor economic decision.

Pander. Its what they do here. See also: Relief road

And the Welsh Gov's decision to pander is purely a political one.

The loss of large-scale mining at Ffros-y-Ffran is what killed the heritage sector's coal use. The volume used by the heritage sector was relatively small, and it was only viable financially when it was siphoned off the main mining operation at the washery (it was mainly exported as a fine...

Sorry its not more helpful, but it's the sort of thing to expect perhaps

Mate of mine was a Kingmoor man about 10years ago. His roster changed every 12-13weeks, with little notice or heads up what it would be. This being so that any individual driver working the nuclear trains couldn't be tracked over a period of time. For security reasons. It was always very...

Ditto. Worcester is fairly well subscribed, as it was a brand new depot, a lot of the drivers there are a "good" age, and so there isn't likely to be all that much natural wastage in the near future. Gloucesssssssssssssterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is a really nice depot. It has...

"Must live in a motorhome that's parked in the station carpark"

I don't think many have RPS, as none have BR lineage They do have union representation, on the whole

As wildly varied as between franchised TOCs, and indeed, in many instances, within the same TOC