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Bird's Eye
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BY THE HAWK View Built-in Frustration NATIONAL OPINION POLLS recently made a survey of 873 London suburb commuters for the Location of Officers and Bureaux. For a kick-off more than half wished they could work nearer home to avoid the daily trip to town. Yet 48 per cent spend two hours a day on their return trips. No wonder this built-in frustration bursts out on the nearest thing to hand—the very service that is conveying them. Yet despite the barrage of criticism of public transport this poll reveals that car commuters were the group that most disliked working in London. So why do they all do it? It looks as though we shall need a Solomon and psychologist rolled into one to solve the commuters' problem. Meanwhile any more volunteers for the hot seat of p.s.v. operator?
Short-lived Service
TN a Press release dated January 5, LTB proudly announced the fact that from Sunday, January 23, the people of Deansbrook Road in North-west London would enjoy a bus service for the first time, due to the re-routing of service 52 from that date. In a further Press release, dated January 25. the Board sadly announced that, as from January 30, route 52 would he withdrawn, due to the busmen's ban on overtime and rest day working. I hope the people of Deansbrook Road made the most of their long-lived bus service!
Extortion!
WRITTEN in the dust on the rear window of an LTB bus in London last week:—"Don't just say fares; say extortion." Help for High-jackers TT IS a good thing to be able to laugh at yourself, and I could I not help but smile when I read a report recently in COMNIFRC1AL MOTOR about the latest vehicle observer corps to be formed in the West Riding. After mentioning this fact. the item goes on to say that information about this corps can be obtained from a gentleman with an address in Leeds. Potential high-jackers presumably will find such information of great assistance!
Tribulation, Tribulation
CIOLLEAGUE Ron Cater came into the office some months
back complaining about the stupidity of a local authority that had wasted its ratepayers' money by erecting Keep Left signs in a one-way street. He tells me now that further expenditure has been incurred because of the obstruction caused by these signs. Many vehicles are forced to jump the kerb and run over the pavement in order to negotiate the corner. Not surprisingly this has led to a steady deterioration in the condition of the footpath in the immediate vicinity which culminated last week in another upheaval of traffic whilst a four-man gang took all day to "bodge up" the footpath. A further example of the stupidity of local authorities is that taking place in Du Cane Road, West London. One section of the local council has obviously contracted a job to Limmer Trinidad Lake Ashph alt Ltd., to repair the road. As if the congestion caused by this is not chaotic enough, another department decided that this must be the week when the kerbside trees must be lopped. The result—single-line traffic and queues stretching way back up the Western Avenue. Talk about the left hand not knowing...
HCV Brighton Run
ERNIE QLTINTON, of the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club, tells me that there will be an all-time record entry for the Brighton run scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 1. He says that unless entrants are prepared to apply early it is certain that there will be many disappointments. The turn-out should, once again, be extremely interesting to anybody with a leaning towards historic commercials. The run will start from the Transport Museum, Clapham, SW4.