Silly in the snow

It's worth noting, though, that at least one of the countries
mentioned, where I'm currently sitting, also invests massively in the
road network. And they do so to address future requirements, not just
the current state of play.

The motorway running mainly underground around and under Basel took
some 6 years to complete, but was done so at a time that the
disruption could be coped with by the existing system, and was
complete before the current network became terminally overloaded. (Oh,
and the whole project came in on tume and budget, AFAICT).

What they seem to do so well is recognise that transport policies need
to be integrated and planned as one, and without giving way to trendy
pressure groups try to plan what the best solution is, then go ahead
and implement it.

Just one of the things I like about the Swiss.

 

I 've just lent TfL the original 8mm film for the ELL re-opening.

 

Shame he's backing the wrong side, mind.

 

It must feel like being in the SS while the Russians advanced on Berlin.

 

Don't let that get in the way of a comment about his affiliations with a
right-wing party.

 

He polishes up quite nicely, if it wasn't for the dodgy 70's style
sideburns you'd hardly realise he was speaking from a leftist view point.

 

They are superb, aren't they? Very 1970s, grown over months of standing
by factory gate braziers.

 

Comedy?

They're a bit on the dinky side if you ask me.

 

And at least he knows WTF he is talking about!

 

Oh, indeed he does.

 

I say that particularly from a Speakers at the LPC POV

 

"These cap badges, have you noticed they've got skulls on them".

 

One of their best efforts, that.

 

"...and you're slightly thicker than me, which I quite like"

 

"There's something between us, I don't know what it is, I'm not even
sure I like it"

 

Not sure whether the sketch the other two lines are from ever made it
from radio to tv.

 

http://rene-writer.livejournal.com/tag/comedy

 

Japan's runs on time Ibut the quality of rush-hour service is awful.
There are way too few carriages and you end up seriously crushed against
the people next to you often without anything to hang onto so you sway
around as the train accelerates and brakes leaning against people and
having people lean against you. Oh, the blokes in white gloves pushing
you in the carriage are amusing too.

I've used both the Tokyo Metro and the London Underground and I'd much
rather use the London Underground; with all of its faults (and I use
this most fucking days at the moment)

Paris Metro, I've used but not enough to have an opinion and haven't
been to NY. LU is expensive but it's a damn sight better than the
alternative. Plus getting to the centre of London from Heathrow is *SO*
much better than getting into the centre of Paris from CDG.

I'm not sure many of us do think it's the greatest country in the world.
The surveillance is unnaceptable- I had a delegation from China visit me
about four years ago and they'd noticed all of the cameras and asked me
what it was about... bit of a headfuck when I've got visiting Chinese
worried about my civil liberties...

However to state it's a third world banana republic is over-egging it a
tad.

 

I think we can safely ignore any survey that puts France as the best
place to live, 5 years running.

Much as I like France, as a place to live, it's behind several other
countries - including Germany.

 

I take no pleasure in saying this, but any definition /you/ impart is
viewed through such a distorted lens as to make it meaningless.

LUL has had some serious investment recently, primarily because of
Livingstone, and is a totally different beast to even just five years ago.

However, it is still constrained by the physical limitations of its
Victorian design and infrastructure and the legacy of half a century of
shoestring economics.

The density of traffic, footfall and passenger kilometres is phenomenal -
day in, day out.