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[Jimbob]

Im not normally one for these green issues.....but this one has caught my attention for some reason.

Tomorrow, 22nd Sept, is international Car Free day.


I have decided to take part, and will use a different method of transport, and will leave my car at marks home 

I think you should all follow suit.

 

Just a thought,is there enough room at Marks to leave all those car's?

ive no choice....the bugger doesnt run 

So I can absolutely, positively state I will not be using my car tomorrow 

[TheBoy]

Im not normally one for these green issues.....but this one has caught my attention for some reason.

Tomorrow, 22nd Sept, is international Car Free day.


I have decided to take part, and will use a different method of transport, and will leave my car at marks home 

I think you should all follow suit.

 

Just a thought,is there enough room at Marks to leave all those car's?

ive no choice....the bugger doesnt run 

So I can absolutely, positively state I will not be using my car tomorrow 

Cant ljay use the bus

[tunnie]

just did the run back from Osterley Park, to Northamptonshire in 1 hour 15 mins.

Lets see public transport do that! 

In Brackley, we're knackered.  I checked for a local bus service to Bicester and back again (Bicester is 2nd nearest train station - the nearest is a platform in a field, and trains don't often stop southbound).  The local bus service to Bicester runs once a week, starts in Bicester, takes 1hr to get to Brackley, turns round, and returns to Bicester 1hr later. Thats it. So its useless.  Bicester people can't come to Brackley, as next bus is a week later, Brackley people can't go to Bicester, for same reason.

So, whatever the greenies say, I NEED a friggin car. Live with it, and go back to tree hugging

If we still had both main line train routes, it would be a different story. 

Chiltern do say in their long term plans are to re-build the link to Derby, going through Brackley, but thats decades away from just being in the planning stage. 

[LJay]

Im not normally one for these green issues.....but this one has caught my attention for some reason.

Tomorrow, 22nd Sept, is international Car Free day.


I have decided to take part, and will use a different method of transport, and will leave my car at marks home 

I think you should all follow suit.

 

Just a thought,is there enough room at Marks to leave all those car's?

ive no choice....the bugger doesnt run 

So I can absolutely, positively state I will not be using my car tomorrow 

Cant ljay use the bus

Absolutely, positively, NO WAY!!!! It's not me who broke my car!!!



Besides Jimbob on a bike is much more amusing!!!

[Andy B]

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 The local bus service to Bicester runs once a week, starts in Bicester, takes 1hr to get to Brackley, turns round, and returns to Bicester 1hr later. Thats it. So its useless.  Bicester people can't come to Brackley, as next bus is a week later, Brackley people can't go to Bicester, for same reason.......

That was a well thought out time table!!!!  :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?

[Andy B]

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Besides Jimbob on a bike is much more amusing!!!

I think Ljay should be piosed with camera in hand to catch that image on (digital) film!!!!!           

[Lazydocker]

When they supply public transport, at convenient times, to us in the sticks then I'll use it

At the moment there's 4 buses/day, and they don't run early enough to get to where I need t go

[Banjax]

imagine no one was allowed to use the car for 1 day a year? Tesco's lying empty up and down the land, offices closed, businesses losing money, empty arenas, empty theatres, empty restaurants, empty shopping centres. Imagine no doctors or nurses in hospitals, no teachers in schools, no posties to deliver the mail. Banks shut, commerce grinds to a halt, factories fall silent,..civilisation would cease for 24hrs - it would be mad 

Now I think the best way of getting back at these loons would be to actually all agree not to take the car anywhere for 1 day - the damage this would cause would shut them up for good 

it'd be like a huge international strike and no one would ever listen to the anti-car tree-huggers ever again 

sometimes i amaze even myself 

[Jimbob]

my legs hurt 

[Andy B]

imagine no one was allowed to use the car for 1 day a year?  .....

It's 23 miles to work, and I start at 7:00am so I reckon if I set off around 2:00am .......  :-?  :-?  :-?

[Nickbat]

imagine no one was allowed to use the car for 1 day a year? Tesco's lying empty up and down the land, offices closed, businesses losing money, empty arenas, empty theatres, empty restaurants, empty shopping centres. Imagine no doctors or nurses in hospitals, no teachers in schools, no posties to deliver the mail. Banks shut, commerce grinds to a halt, factories fall silent,..civilisation would cease for 24hrs - it would be mad 

Now I think the best way of getting back at these loons would be to actually all agree not to take the car anywhere for 1 day - the damage this would cause would shut them up for good 

it'd be like a huge international strike and no one would ever listen to the anti-car tree-huggers ever again 

sometimes i amaze even myself 

You're absolutely right, BJ. 

Our whole economy hinges on the unhindered movement of personnel and goods.

[Gaffers]

my legs hurt 

Man up, wetpants!

[Dishevelled Den]

When they supply public transport, at convenient times, to us in the sticks then I'll use it

At the moment there's 4 buses/day, and they don't run early enough to get to where I need t go

That's the one LD, the wishful thinking regarding public transport evaporates on the urban/rural line