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ITYF it was Sweden in about 1963.
Phasing it in is a good idea, what about motorways first, then A roads,
then B roads, etc.....

 

<sulk>

At least it wasn't "Bad pun Wednesday" - then I could have cracked it
at our New Year's Eve junket.

 

Heh - I was expecting the lights - changing from red ...

 

Or HGVs first, then vans ...

 

As others have said, Sweden, in 1967 (not 1963). They had all the road
signs prepared and everything, all coverd up, and did the switch in one
weekend. For 48 hours or something no vehicles were allowed to roll,
except for essential services, and they uncovered the new signs, did the
last-minute changes like painting junctions, and away they went.

Went remarkably smoothly, by all accounts.

But then: small country, relatively few vehicles, especially in 1967.

For the UK, now, impossible.

 

Wasn't this something to do with why Swedish cars have daytime lights?
Everyone had to put on their sidelights to remind them to drive on the
wrong side?

wibble

 

You've been on the 2-stroke fumes again haven't you

 

Isn't that in old weights only?

 

District Line

 

South Wimbledon station's on the District line?

Somebody better tell Harry Beck, quick fast!

 

Where, in the Simonk bit of the thread, does it say South Wimbledon ?

 

Nowhere, but as he said 'Wimbledon [...] is actually on the Northern Line'
I didn't see the relevance of the District Line stations in the area.

Or is this some new kind of Mornington Crescent derivative? In which case
I'd like to invoke the 1997 first-day-back-at-work regulations and reopen
the Ongar branch of the Central Line.

 

Heh, my bro spent New Years in a mate's house in London (petticaot
Lane area? Portobello Road? Began with a P, anyway, sounded familiar)
- 10k a month rent. But as Darsy sez later (sort of) it's how much
your rent is as a percentage of your income, innit, not the price per
se.

That said, it was a bloody nice house, 'ee said as he ran off with the
family silver... ;o)

 

sweller wrote

Strangely it has nothing to do with this but everything to do with their
northerly lattitude and its effects on day length.

 

There are people I know who commute to London from King's Lynn.

Why I ask myself?

 

Mick Whittingham was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Similar reasons as to why several of my colleagues commute to East
London from Southampton, Newbury and Coventry?

As in, they (and/or their birds) prefer to live there?

 

Yeah but Kings Lynn? Doesn't have much to recommend it IMO (my outlaws have
a holiday home up the coast in Brancaster Staithe so I get out and about in
that area a few times per year). The only reason I ever end up there is
because it's got a camera shop (even if it is a blummin' Jessops) which is
handy if I run out of something or whatever, even then I want to scarper as
quick as poss

It's also rather further away than either Southampton, Newbury, or Coventry.
Helluva commute.

ZK

 

I can sort of understand that. But if you have 'nice' place to live why
spend 6 hours a day commuting to London to work?

 

Coventry?

 

Generally I would agree, but:
It does have some good markets.
A good selection of small non 'big chain' shops in the middle of town.
Six or more big super markets so the competition is good.
Good wet fish supplies.
Good butchers.
Coffee importers/roasters.
Good restaurants.
Good library, if small.
Good theatre.
Good selection of builder, plumbers and electrical suppliers.

They are tearing down the 'new built in the 60s' bit of the town and
building something more pleasing to the eye.

Crime on the council estates is a problem according to the papers but
only specific estates.

*Every* bit of pavement is covered in chewing gum and I mean *every*
bit.

The young lady there knows more about photography technically than all
the other sales droids in there, behind counter or out back.