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15th January 1983, Page 24
15th January 1983
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WHY would West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive not build a bus shelter? The following 33 crisp words from a sentence of 109 words may not answer the question but they may or may not give a glimmer of hope for the future: "It is axiomatic that residual requests in respect of prospective shelter sites identified as having priority, notably those named in earlier programmes of shelter erection, will take precedence in any future programme."
This little gem won the executive a Golden Bull from the Plain English Campaign in its annual competition to find the best for worst) examples of gobbledegook. It also earns the executive The Hawk's luminous plastic pigeon loft with CB radio for the reception of pidgin English.