Reverse what Dr.Beaching did in the 60’s. Open up all the old lines to / from where the ‘snobs’ live now; set up an 8 - 12 point warehouse delivery system on the outskirts of the M25.
Executives go in ‘en masse’… and come back out again to their country retreats…
Now here’s my solution, ( and don’t you have to vote me as the next minister ? transport if you don’t want to )
But in my view, trucks should deliver to ‘satellite style’ warehousing on the out skirts of the M25.
Then the GLC can focus on their own inner distribution techniques by way of tramways…electric and into the city at night… qt & no dervumes
Result:- Execs to their seats in style; No hassle for truck drivers; ( 3 lanes available , trucks & coaches take issues on speed limiters… (Dave 999 (exempt) )
Brill, i’m all for Boris, if they wanna build a bloody great Hadrians wall just inside the M25 so i never lay eyes on the bloody dump again as long as i live that would suit me fine, no one in no one out, bliss.
Juddian:
Brill, i’m all for Boris, if they wanna build a bloody great Hadrians wall just inside the M25 so i never lay eyes on the bloody dump again as long as i live that would suit me fine, no one in no one out, bliss.
Juddian:
Brill, i’m all for Boris, if they wanna build a bloody great Hadrians wall just inside the M25 so i never lay eyes on the bloody dump again as long as i live that would suit me fine, no one in no one out, bliss.
Radar19:
Boris wants to ban all HGV’s from the city, can’t see this working though. London will fall.
No disrespect Radar 19 mate, that was my answer to the problem. Never should a decent , self-respecting truck driver go into that **** hole . Boris don’t care about fumes albeit, he’s got taxis & so - called 'eco-friendly buses ’
I’d love to into the L E Z zone with me old Volvo F88 on a cold day…
London used to be quite enjoyable to drive round and in, and i did lots of London work in the 80’s and 90’s, 70’s too but missed the 60’s which must have been great, lots of very nicely dressed totty scenery if you knew which routes to take…ie the only route west from the centre was down Brompton Road and over Putney Bridge, so much totty you needed a second man on watch in case you missed one of the nearside.
Routes north could involve London or Blackfriars or Chelsea or Vauxhall bridge, not for rapid transit but for top class viewage.
Those days are sadly gone, and i aint the young good looking thing that i once wasn’t either…
simon1958:
Reverse what Dr.Beaching did in the 60’s. Open up all the old lines to…
Quite impossible. Most of the infrastructure (bridges, viaducts, embankments, cuttings etc) is long gone. The lines of some of the old railways are still there, and are very obvious in some cases, but the cost of reinstating these lines into usable freight ways for any type of vehicles would be many many billions of pounds. Nice idea, but completely unworkable sadly.
Juddian:
London used to be quite enjoyable to drive round and in, and i did lots of London work in the 80’s and 90’s, 70’s too but missed the 60’s which must have been great, lots of very nicely dressed totty scenery if you knew which routes to take…ie the only route west from the centre was down Brompton Road and over Putney Bridge, so much totty you needed a second man on watch in case you missed one of the nearside.
Routes north could involve London or Blackfriars or Chelsea or Vauxhall bridge, not for rapid transit but for top class viewage.
Those days are sadly gone, and i aint the young good looking thing that i once wasn’t either…
When I first started in 79 I used to love London. Pre M25 you had to go through it to get anywhere S E or W of it.
There was some good parks with some err entertaining pubs with mostly young ‘ladies’ suppllying the ‘cabaret’
Aldgate roundabout, now an office block, ‘The Ramp’ at Bishopgate, and bottom park, and the Sheperds Bush park up from the BBC building, to name a few. Had some great nights there in the days before most drivers turned in to miserable basts and parked in ■■■■ lay bys all week .
I knew it like the back of my hand although I lived 300 miles away. I went through part of it last year, had not a ■■■■ clue where I was.
Truckers are about as welcome there as Jimmy Saville in an orphanage. It has turned into a complete hole of ■■■■, full of restrictions by bureaucrats and arsewipe politicians.
Juddian:
Brill, i’m all for Boris, if they wanna build a bloody great Hadrians wall just inside the M25 so i never lay eyes on the bloody dump again as long as i live that would suit me fine, no one in no one out, bliss.
‘The bit,in fact a lot,of what’s ‘inside,let alone outside,the M25’ generally ain’t Boris’ turf to do anything with and even some of that which is ‘his’ shouldn’t be.
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It has turned into a complete hole of ■■■■, full of restrictions by bureaucrats and arsewipe politicians.