GWVillager

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British transport enthusiast, advocate and commentator. He/him.

[GWVillager @GwVillager]

I've stayed here far, far too long, but it's time to make the jump, I think.

From now on, I won't be posting much to this account. You can find me on the place everyone else has been going @gwvillager.bsky.social

Goodbye!

[GWVillager @GwVillager]

@Lecture_25 The 180s are gorgeous when well looked after. It’s just that Arriva doesn’t maintain visuals well at all - they were absolute stunners with FGW.

[Connor Naismith MP @connor_naismith]

The collective meltdown over the suggestion that power can sit anywhere other than SW1 is something to behold.

"How will he travel between London and Manchester."

Good grief.

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@RobMartin1989 @AaronBastani This specific ship is gas, but regardless, a lot. Very low CO2e per person - 19g/passenger KM, compared to 246g by plane or 170g by car. Ships are incredibly efficient.

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@87027wolf @TheMurkyDepths They don’t have to be?

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@neilalexanderw1 @AnonymousLeftie No, but this is much more a case of the urban rich and rural poor - a cosmopolitan German is almost certainly further from a poorly educated Belgian farmer than a Miami suburbanite is from an Appalachian hillbilly. And, population proportion wise, that is an apt comparison.

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@itsembish How is Booths Green? It’s much more liberal Tory or swing-voter-who-now-leans-Lib-Dem.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Ruling out coalitions feels really unacceptable - although Westminster often regards this stuff as ‘clever politics’. You need to govern in the public interest with the council the public has chosen.

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@JJ_McCullough They have all been really quite poor, to be fair.

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@jordanbhx There’ll be a bit of a lag time - give it 5 years and I expect the gap will widen.

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@questionableway I expect it is because the pothole ‘blitz’ repairs are rough and temporary - it is so much quicker to just pour asphalt into a hole than it is to resurface an entire section of road, which is the usual method.

Of course, whether or not this shift is wise is debatable.

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@EFCevie Yes absolutely, I think this is more impactful.

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@who_shot_jgr The Belgian rail network is pretty speedy? Was the train diverted off the high speed line?

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@Elwick70 It is rather ugly, I cannot understand how they’ve allowed it.

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@matthewhodg The panels are transparent - admittedly those photos do a good job of hiding it, but it’s visible in the aerial shots.

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@Eyoyism Manchester

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@brownliberite @Isaac2003_v2 It's like definitionally North Herefordshire.

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@eurochallenges Yes. It's fine. A really nice country, even, and London in particular is one of the most competent cities on earth.

We just have a self-loathing culture and excessive optimism is shunned. The political/economic situation isn't great, but it's starting from a very high bar.

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@colmflynnire Happens every year in Hereford Cathedral!