The Monster Loony Party’s Thoughts on the Cambridge Busway
This story is priceless and puts one of Britain’s worst transport projects in perspective.
Loony politician Lord Toby Jug has launched a campaign to have Cambridgeshire’s guided bus route rebuilt in rubber and stretched to the Channel Isles so St Ives can become a tax haven.
Lord Toby, leader of the Cambridge and Huntingdon branch of the Official Monster Loony Party, is also campaigning to have a witch-ducking stool built on the Quay at St Ives.
This would be used so that council officials who came up with the “crackpot” guided bus scheme can be dunked in the River Great Ouse every hour.
Lord Toby Jug is also raising money for Alzheimer’s Disease research.
Stoic Londoners
Last night, I had to go to the bus stop to pick up a friend, who was coming to dinner.
At the moment, the Balls Pond Road, is more like the Balls Pond Roadworks and as buses through Dalston appeared to be being diverted, buses were stacked up to get to the stop, where my friend was to alight.
But was it all fraught, with shouting and waving?
No! Everybody just got on with their travel, perhaps walked a bit if necessary and got off buses in the middle of the road, if that was all they could do.
Hopefully, it’ll all be better in a week or two, when the works finish.
You do sometimes think that stupidity makes it worse. Yesterday, as I walked back from Dalston Junction, the road was narrowed by the road works, so what did some idiot decorators do? Block the pavement with ladders, so they could paint a building. This meant mothers with buggies had to use the road and weave between buses, trucks and other vehicles. Hopefully, there wasn’t an accident.
Off to York Today!
Today I’m off to York to see a old friend. This is the ticket, I used as a test to find the optimum time to buy. It’s so much easier to do trips like that from here, than where I lived in the country. It’s just a bus or a bus and a tube to King’s Cross. It just depends what number bus turns up first.
Is that playing Bus Roulette?
Cook Two, Eat One, Freeze One
They’ve just said that this is a way to save money on your food on BBC Breakfast. Perhaps because of my planning background, I often do this, as that way when I get in late after evening football or the cinema, there is always something there. That is if I remember to get it out before I go out. Which of course I don’t always do!
An Engineering Icon
BBC Breakfast were talking about BT and showed a background of the Forth Rail Bridge. Nothing about telecoms, but it shows how iconic and well-known the bridge is.
The Anonymous Widower 