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An Open Letter to Those In Charge about Cycling Safety in Swindon

July 21, 2010 in Cycling, Swindon | 2 comments

Actually…here’s something I found in my drafts from back when I had my bad-cycling week. I left it and intended to come back to it, re-read it, and work out what to do with it.

Reading it again, outside of the context of my bad week, it seems quite reasonable, documents my “bad week” and expresses some of my frustrations. The only problems: it’s a bit long and I don’t know who should be the recipient!

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Local Travel Plan 3

March 6, 2010 in Climate Change, Cycling, Politics, Swindon, Thoughts | No comments

A few notes before I start this post, and hope it doesn’t turn into a rant.

  1. I’m really sorry that I’m turning into a transport geek/bore.
  2. I think the LTPs are a good thing.
  3. I know one of our council transport people a little and she’s brilliant, hard working, and very good at what she does.
  4. Swindon actually seems to be doing pretty well against it’s LTP2 targets.  This is worthy of praise.
  5. I KNOW this is a complex issue and I’ll never understand it fully.  What I’d like to see though, it some real, forward thinking leadership from the people in charge.
  6. I’ve not read ALL the information about LTP2 and LTP3, so I may have missed some vital stuff, for which I partly apologise, and for which I partly blame the inadequate management summaries! ;-)

I make no apologies for this post being long.  It exists for two reasons:

  1. To make me read and understand some of the LTP documents and record my thoughts.
  2. To record my thoughts on the LTP3 consultation.

OK, here we go then.

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Campaining

January 30, 2010 in Uncategorized | No comments

As a Christian I am challenged constantly by the teachings and example of Jesus Christ, and one of the things I see that he did a LOT of was interacting with, and showing compassion for the poor, the needy, the sick, the outcasts of society.

While I, in my personal life, find it really difficult to know how to go about doing this 1, one of the things I do to try to stop me feeling less guilty about not actually doing it is campainging 2.

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  1. I think the key is to stop asking how and just go and do it…but that’s very scary! ↩
  2. I’m sorry – that’s just how I manage to type it – EVERY time ↩

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10:10

September 26, 2009 in Climate Change | No comments

The Guardian and the makers of the film ‘Age of Stupid’ have created a new climate change campaign called 10:10 (see http://www.1010uk.org).

The idea is that you sign up and try to cut your carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010. Lots of famous people and big businesses have signed up, but, despite being a keen-though -ow-key climate change campaigner, I’ve not yet made that pledge.

Why not?

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Cycling catch-up

July 23, 2009 in Cycling, General | No comments

So, as I think I’ve said, April through to July has been pretty darned busy. I made my way on to several rotas at church, had a busy time at work several weekends away and a week-long holiday. Finally some more “free” time is here – hence the recent blog activity.

I wanted to take a quick look back at the last few months’ cycling. There are some thoughts that I’ve not had a chance to jot down.

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