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The band "Blyth Power" haven't been mentioned yet..

Thanks :) I recall hearing tales of people riding one or two nightly services which basically performed some kind of circular zig-zaggy tour of the southern region...?

A few have mentioned the newspaper trains. Didn't they have official seated coaches and were advertised in the public timetables? Often with very circuitous routes though? And regarding postal and parcels trains - it's not just the risk of a gang waiting trackside to hold it up, but the person...

I do totally understand the safety issues, even though the argument does to a small extent pander to the atrocious driving standards we see now, and the ground environment, habitats etc, loses out. Surely constant signage, both above and on the road surface, would make things a lot better...

But would be so much better if attitudes were different, rather than resort to telling people what to do. But that may take decades, or even centuries, as it's taken that long to get where we are now... 1693400490 Don't want to risk their car getting scraped*, or "fire engines need to get...

Pavement parking..... Don't cycle on them, but park, atleast half, on them..... Again, common round here. My then 81 year old Dad had a small van swoop up totally onto the (wide) pavement a few metres in front of him, leaving hardly any room either side. Driver then accused my Dad of...

Totally agreed. And even just a shift to less dangerous roads would be good.. In the late nineties, i noticed the mainstream media having an obsession with any incident whatsoever on the railways...there were two or three major crashes in a relatively short space of time, but it seemed someone...

Entitled motorists. We have allowed the situation to develop over the past century where driving a motor vehicle wherever, whenever and however you want (and parking it wherever, whenever and however you want..) is seen as the most fundamental human right, and don't let anyone get in the way of...

As you say, the bus from Reading to Wallingford is only hourly on Sundays, half hourly other days. Still good though compared with a lot of places.. However, the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is running that day, in fact Friday to Sunday according to their website is their Bunkfest...

Not an Extinction Rebellion person myself, but i do know their protests ALWAYS move aside to let 'blue lights' through, and as there will be crossover personnel-wise with Just Stop Oil (again i have no links with), i assume they have the same policy.

Or rather electrifying

We gone far, but i don't believe past the point of no return. Just maybe different thinking, rather a than a return to exactly how things were, is required.

Regarding cycling and hills - every uphill has a downhill, atleast on the return journey. My regular (on average weekly) 4.2 mile journey includes a climb of 60 metres in about a mile. Yeah it's tedious, and the overall journey takes about 30 minutes instead of about 20 in the other direction...

I'm just wondering if people who are advocating 'amending' the USO are actually confident other changes wouldn't also be slipped in, either on the quiet or well-publicised. Or perhaps if put out to consultation it would be "all of these changes or none". Both of these are commonly used tactics...

Thirty years ago when i worked at RM they were most definitely three separate businesses - don't think had been for long though. Still worked together slightly, e.g. RM collecting from sub-offices, including posted parcels (for Parcelforce) which were put straight in the back of an artic trailer...

My 85 year old Dad still receives more than one item of normal mail most days, whereas i get maybe about one thing per week... I would guess most people are somewhere in between... Re small parcels - my late partner received something she'd ordered literally almost every day through RM, mostly...

Agree with every word of that, both intellectually and experiencially. DPD though do seem ok; regular driver, and they actually offer their staff the option to be properly employed which will make a huge difference. I think the others (evri certainly) all use the "self employed" model, where...

I think most boxes are now emptied by the same person who delivers in that area, round here atleast (urban)...one reason they each have their own van now, and also most boxes are only emptied in the mornings. Only the very few with later collections still require a separate trip out to them.

Maybe, but i suspect most people would prefer to know when to expect stuff, i.e. set days.

Possibly that could work, while there is no competition for letters, but if daily delivery is not retained for parcels/packets, Royal Mail instantly becomes less attractive than other courier firms. However, would any reduction in days for any part of the service not have a detrimental effect on...