Lynne
No more free bus passes for those of state pension age then?
There's a bit in this week's Gazette about the debate initated by our MP concerning this. Click on this link http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150120/halltext/150120h0002.htm#15012054000003 and then scroll down to 4.30pm if you want to read what happened verbatim.
Basically, if you want to live in a rural environment and not be cut off even more than you might already be, you'll need to have your own transport.
Can't remember exactly where. Haven't been along there for almost a year now. But I know they were there because I remember noticing them and looking up what they meant as I didn't know if the sign meant cycling allowed or cycling not allowed. It was the latter.
New cycle path proposal featured on BBC Spotlight South West this evening.
Just had a phone call from someone stuck in a car in Exeter. Not moving at all. Everything at a standstill. http://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/devon/incidents/road Update: M5 accident had one fatality. Then there was another fatal RTA in Exeter later today. http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Live-Travel-Updates-Chaos-Exeter-roads-collisions/story-25929605-detail/story.html
http://www.dawlishtransition.org.uk/SustainableTravel.html
Glad you appreciate it JC. A thought. And I am not being negative about the cycle link - far from it. My thought is this, we are talking difficulties in getting a safe cycleway into Dawlish town centre right? Hmm........Well, right now the seawall pathway is being made all one level. Nice and flat all the way from Dawlish Warren. See where I am going on this? I know there were 'No ...
Yes, I totally agree that it does seem to have taken a huge amount of time to get a cycle path all the way along this side of the estuary and then on and into Dawlish. Still, almost there now...
Yes a really good article. But, ahem, OMG! Look what the writer's gone and done! She's only advertising the Dawlish Warren NNR and Exe Estuary RSPB reserves as places to visit. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Whatever will TDC and East Devon District Councils have to say about that eh? And I wonder if the authorities in Brussels and Westminster are aware that people, yes, people!, are being ...
