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• Commercial Motor fielded a team of four burned-out hacks
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in the Pudsey Bear charity pass-the-parcel race at the Crystal Palace Sports Centre last week: they staggered to a suprisingly creditable seventh in a field of 22.
The event, sponsored and arranged by Parceline, raised cash for the BBC's Children In Need appeal.
CN1's sporting finest carried a parcel four times around the Crystal Palace track on bicycle. The parcel was then passed to a runner who circuited twice before running on to the swimming pool, where the parcel was transferred to the swimmer for his two lengths.
Finally, it was returned to a second runner for a return to the running track and another full circuit.
It makes me tired just to think of it. The CM team's achievement was rather overshadowed by the exploits of two unnecessarily fit blokes, who together completed the event in record time. If I were only 20 years younger. • The all-seeing lens of Commercial Motor's photographer captured the moment last week when new Transport Minister Robert Atkins was nabbed by the old Bill. Like Peter Bottorraey before him, Atkins is clearly a politician who cannot resist a photo-opportunity. Any pertinent suggestions for a picture caption? A CM sweatshirt to the person with the best idea. Ili Police authorities are urging the Government to light Britain's entire motorway network. The Department of Transport accepts that effective lighting reduces motorway deaths by at least 30%, but only 25% of the country's 2,993km network is lit.
• Drivers on the Huntingdon bypass last week were confronted by a scene of devastation, with a handful of severely mangled cars scattered at the side of the road, leading to the conclusion that a major accident had taken place. In fact, there was only one vehicle involved in the incident; a truck carrying scrap cars which had shed its load in spectacular style.
• Those of you exasperated by yet another delay caused by workmen digging up the road will be relieved to hear about the latest device aimed at solving the problem.
FlowMole is a clever little gadget which burrows through the earth without the need for trenches. The remote control FlowMole tunnelling equipment is apparently an American invention which has already been used on trials by British Gas in the East Midlands.
It uses a high-power fluid jet cutting system to bore claylined tunnels up to five times as fast as the usual trenchlaying techniques.
The Hawk cannot help thinking, however, that this high technology solution to an ageold problem is unnecessarily costly. How much better it would be if workmen could use teams of highly-trained live homing moles for the work. Think of the cost savings.
Scientists are reported to be hard at work on the solution, but the boffins keep coming up with the same molehill-induced sleeping policemen scattered liberally about the road surface.
This problem needs a concerted response from the best brains in road transport. Any ideas?