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- It's a Wales episode! AND it's a bus episode! When I talk about Wales being way out ahead of the rest of the UK when it comes to integrating its transport system, hopefully this report will make the case... We're doing a classic page turn of the Welsh Government's Roadmap to Bus Reform report, covering network, timetable, and ticket integration.
Let's see how good these plans are!
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Hopefully the 20mph rollback will just be a few of the wider through routes that were borderline cases so the car-brained folks who signed the petition can feel like they’ve won but we can still get most of the benefit of calmed traffic. It’s properly weird now going to England and driving in areas that would be unambiguously 20mph in Wales and seeing people doing unsafe speeds and realising it’s legal there.
Supposedly it was up to local councils to decide which roads should remain at 30mph. I've heard that some complained about not having the resources (or perhaps the competence) to actually do it, so naturally it's led to a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
To be fair, 20mph would've only ever worked alongside Dutch-level investment and redesign of many roads and routes; in particular as part of widening pavements, adding bike lanes, creating more filtered neighbourhood 'home zones'.
@@dog-ez2nu Disagree; the vast majority of roads that have had their limits decreased are better for everyone at that speed even in the absence of Dutch-style investment.
@@dog-ez2nuI had hoped the 20mph scheme would have been rolled out with just that in mind. The perennial comment online I see from those opposed to it is "but it's safe to drive above 20mph" and they aren't exactly wrong - the UK is full of roads in residential areas where 30 or even 40 is the natural driving speed and it's just weird that we can't seem to do anything besides the band aid solution that is speed bumps.
@@h0m54rmerely redesignating roads to be 20 limits hits the same problem american roads have: you drive to the speed that feels safe, hence why stretches of 50mph on dual carriageways are seldom adhered to, and 30mph stroads with 2 or more lanes each way were always speeding hotspots.
Ooh interesting takes but got be a hard disagree with the no-grid cities take. I think when you look at urban planning stretching back centuries the grid is the most efficient way to create accessible density HOWEVER all of that is in exclusion of cars, cars will dominate a grid.
I think the idea of little interconnected networks (like a garden city) is a nice idea from people trying to tackle problems like sprawl, slums, and car dominance but ultimately is the wrong direction. The ideal is grids (or pseudo grids, or connected grids) with use of filtering to make cars have to take the long route round. Through routes only for active and public transport, with "core" routes planned in the style of a Dutch Houfnet. Otherwise you end up with places where movement through them is the primary concern, rather than being contained and connected places in their own right.
If you take a look at alot of duttch urban areas there's a lot of grids, yet when you look at how cars interact with those areas there are almost no through-routes, lots of parts where they can't go, and public transport / active travel made the priority though filtering.
Also Re Milton Keynes I agree it's a dump but I think it's got good bones. With enough political will and upgrades it could turn into quite a nice area, will certainly look better than any Barret Homes new build estate. It will be interesting to check in on it in 30 years
Seriously. Just copy Dutch urban planning. That's all you need to do. The Netherlands aesthetically is very much what the UK could have looked like if we had our shit together.
you're right that there's a space for grids to fill in space with density, but I think city centres and the arteries of a space should be led by geography and desire lines of mobility, following the transport hierarchy to push cars to the periphery as much as possible - which actually aligns mostly with what you are saying. I guess mostly I just hate MK as I've spent a bit of time in the centre and the burbs and always feel like it's the perfect car city that also happens to be walkable here and there
The Harrogate to Leeds bus service is privately owned and runs at 10 minutes intervals with the fares capped at £2 by a Government subsidiary. However, the parallel rail line is owned and operated by the government, but hasn't a fare cap. The government is, therefore, funding a private company taking passengers from the government owned railway. Not surprisingly, the trains are underutilised, compared to similar electrified lines, e.g., the Ilkley to Leeds Line.
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IMHO.. they should send all rail staff to japan on a rail holiday.. And will come back with different attitude = mega frustration..
@@pedromorgan99trouble with that is they might not want to come back
Hi Gareth, I love the podcast and hate to say anything negative, but this was quite a hard episode to listen to because you were SOO distracted by the chat and took forever to get to the point. When you do your presenty bits, it might be helpful if you could somehow hide or mute the chat from your screen for a while, so that you can concentrate on the topic and get your key points out coherently. Then you can open up the chat at the end and do more of a back and forth and it doesn't matter at that point because anyone not interested can stop watching/listening. I think it would make things much better for people listening back later or who are audio only and who can't participate in the chat. It would also make your content much more shareable/clippable if we want to send it to other people. I hope you take this as constructive, because you do have a lot of good things to say!
Recently used the T22 electric bus from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog pretty good
I agree the buses and trains should be co-ordinated at a strategic level. However, this is not happening at the moment in Yorkshire.
It absolutely is where your first instinct went - just outside Aberarth where the road goes quite near the cliff top. And not far from the Cofiwch Dryweryn monument.
Edit: you got it yay!
Railway geoguesser?
Reminds me of the long-running Swedish game show "På Spåret" (on the track/line).
two celeb teams, cab-view ride of (mostly) train lines, punny clues getting easier & easier. The sooner they guess, the better the points if they're right.
bit surprised it doesn't seem to have worked elsewhere. Only Norway & finland have ever tried.
in regions where they are no or very few fixed bus routes flexibuses can build toward more new fixed link routes.
As a life long Wolvertonian there’s more to milk and beans than cars.
if they are no private vechiles allowed which iswhat you give the impression that that iswhat you want how dose the rural famar get his produce into the farmers market even if it is mostly done betwen train stations.
Zero private vehicles is not the aim, the aim is for private road vehicles to stop being the default and presumed mode of transport for all people in all cases.
City wise, I love Cardiff. Semi-decent public transport but my favourite thing is how easy it is to walk around it.
Cardiff has a nicely compact city centre, and the adjacent housing tends to be dense terraces or old 3 storey semis
love that the first words in this episode are swear words!😂😂😂
trying a new style of cold open
@@GarethDennisTV it's a spicy open.