Congestion Charge

[flecc]

I'll give Boris the credit for anything he achieves Hal, but at present the indications aren't promising, his pre-election targets already being ducked out of. He even sounded like Ken word for word in his last statement on knife crime!

Certainly the buses aren't eleven times better or correspondingly cheaper, but that's in the nature of all public transport and services, the return being poor and usually a loss maker. The railways are the same and the Channel Tunnel has long been an economic lost cause. Of course in Europe they recognise that fact and don't expect them to make money, just paying out whatever is necessary to have a good service. Since Thatcher in particular we have this silly political idea that everything has to pay it's way, and one only has to look at the mess those policies have made of the BBC to see how futile that is.
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[oldosc]

my lawd, dont e lunnon folk ave a ard life, we don't ave such problems ere, there bein only four buses a day,an ur local shop closin,saves us avin to walk up the village fur the paper. if e cant aford a delivery,us unt know about all them orrible fings a appenen abroad(up lunnon way), as fur bein taxed, well on a pension of £100 a week, dont apply do it.

[HarryB]

Originally Posted by oldosc

my lawd, dont e lunnon folk ave a ard life, we don't ave such problems ere, there bein only four buses a day,an ur local shop closin,saves us avin to walk up the village fur the paper. if e cant aford a delivery,us unt know about all them orrible fings a appenen abroad(up lunnon way), as fur bein taxed, well on a pension of £100 a week, dont apply do it.

Are we being a bit Londoncentric - sorry! I would love to get out of London but not too sure about what job I would do and so stuck here.

[flecc]

Originally Posted by oldosc

my lawd, dont e lunnon folk ave a ard life, we don't ave such problems ere, there bein only four buses a day,an ur local shop closin,saves us avin to walk up the village fur the paper. if e cant aford a delivery,us unt know about all them orrible fings a appenen abroad(up lunnon way), as fur bein taxed, well on a pension of £100 a week, dont apply do it.

That's a busy village!

Last village I lived in never had a shop and one bus a week on Wednesday, in the morning outward bound 13 miles to the nearest town, then in the afternoon the return journey.

Anything forgotten had to be gone without for a week.
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[Footie]

Originally Posted by flecc

That's a busy village!

Last village I lived in never had a shop and one bus a week on Wednesday, in the morning outward bound 13 miles to the nearest town, then in the afternoon the return journey.

Anything forgotten had to be gone without for a week.
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Sounds like a lot of villages here.
Unfortunately, most are now full of holiday homes - only occupied a few months of the year.
A dead village means the village shops, pub and post office close, so it turns into a ghost town.
But don't worry about the locals - they can't afford the houses anyway so you won't find any.
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[flecc]

Originally Posted by Footie

Sounds like a lot of villages here.
Unfortunately, most are now full of holiday homes - only occupied a few months of the year.
A dead village means the village shops, pub and post office close, so it turns into a ghost town.
But don't worry about the locals - they can't afford the houses anyway so you won't find any.
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It as World War 2 which did that to the village I mentioned, but it was unspoilt with mostly locals at the time. It's certainly been ruined now, more a tourist destination than anything else.
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[oldosc]

Originally Posted by flecc

That's a busy village!

Last village I lived in never had a shop and one bus a week on Wednesday, in the morning outward bound 13 miles to the nearest town, then in the afternoon the return journey.

Anything forgotten had to be gone without for a week.
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Bet you wish you had an Aguttu then...
Jokin aside, It's easy to denigrate those who live and work in London , but having been there,Iknow you have to run very fast to stand still. It was so in 1957, and more so now.
I hope the forum has gathered that even though I regard myself as a bit of a freebooter, I also regard myself as one of the lucky ones, to be fit(ish)at 70 have had a startling life (due to listening to my dad ((a bit))and the owner of an Agattu