Tag: climate emergency

How to destroy a bus service

October 6, 2023 1 Comment
How to destroy a bus service

Cars and other private vehicles worsen global heating, endanger our bodies and health, poison our air and wreck our neighbourhoods.  Yet, instead of trying to encourage us to make less use of them, governments in the UK are busy doing the very opposite.  The UK government, cynically and absurdly, even declares that it’s fighting a […]

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A black hole in green transport?

June 30, 2023 0 Comments
A black hole in green transport?

An anecdote is a dangerous base for an argument, I know, but today that’s not going to stop me from a grouse about public transport.  Yesterday I needed to get from Mumbles to Cardiff Bay.  These days I try to keep the car in the drive, unless there’s no reasonable alternative, and I didn’t think […]

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Sarn Helen, end to end

February 10, 2023 4 Comments
Sarn Helen, end to end

Several stretches of Roman road in Wales are labelled ‘Sarn Helen’.  The one Tom Bullough sets out to walk, in a roughly straight line except for a lurch eastward to Brecon Gaer, is the road that leads from the fort at Nidum (Neath) to Canovium (Caerhun, near Conwy).  He has recorded his trip in a […]

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