Category Archives: Car

Jan
24
2012

Trains and Cost – Part 3: Public Investment v Wasteful Subsidy

by Skippy

In 2011 passengers contributed about £6.5bn and taxpayers £4bn a year to the running of the railways (ref). Now I will be the first to admit I don’t like how the Rail Network is set up at current [1, and 2]. However Let us quickly compare the cost and subsidy with the UK road network: Externalities: £48.7 [...]

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Jan
24
2012

Cycling V Motorbike – Thoughts on Other Road Users

by Skippy

Poor lil Steph has put up with me riding her through rain and well less bad weather for about 500 miles now; and I am intrested in the way that I am treated by other vehcials. Cars and Lorrys give you much more respect than they do when you are a cyclist; they seem to [...]

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Jan
18
2012

Transport for London’s Please Take Care…

by Skippy

I got the following email off of Transport for London’s Ben Plowden: Dear Skippy, I am writing to both cyclists and drivers to remind them to take care on London’s roads. Cyclists are reminded to: Be aware of blind spots all around large vehicles. It’s often safer to hang back Make eye contact with drivers [...]

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Aug
21
2011

Social and Anti-Social Transport

by Skippy

Last night I went to see Andi, Maddy, and Storm, for our semi regulare dose of two hot men, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. This was not really that well planed (Maddy and I aranged it on Wednesday). The journey from Culham to Cheltenham and back is about 100 miles; the using the AA list [...]

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Nov
01
2005

Driving test

by Skippy

Today I took my Driving Theory test, The test is a two part test, a Multiple choice part, and a Hazard perception part, To pass the multiple choice part you have to score above 30 out of 35, and for the hazard perception you have to get 44 out of 75, Some parts of the Hazard perception [...]

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