Tag: cars

On the buses

August 22, 2025 7 Comments
On the buses

A couple of weeks ago Transport for Wales invited people to come along to Swansea Bus Station to give their views on the routes that buses in the city should take, once TfW takes over full responsibility for decisions from the existing bus companies.  We went along and had some interesting chats with TfW staff […]

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Against SUVs

June 19, 2025 2 Comments
Against SUVs

A couple of weeks ago the campaign group Transport & Environment published a report explaining how the height of SUVs increases the risk of injury and death to pedestrians, especially children.  It seems that the bonnet height of these vehicles is increasing by half a centimetre a year.  High bonnets decrease the field of the […]

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The 20mph revolt

September 29, 2023 3 Comments
The 20mph revolt

I usually float through the sewage and green algae of political debate in the UK buoyed up by a comforting belief: that here in Wales people are in some way insulated from the worst of the reactionary and cruel madness that now passes for politics in Westminster.  Comforting, but, I fear, quite wrong.  The extreme […]

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