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Offline Forth Bridges

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« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2007, 11:08:26 am »
yes that is correct,  UK was once a Topice state and a frozen waste lands millions a years ago , were just speeding thing you

also Us the CAR, PLANE LESS !


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« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2007, 11:11:30 am »

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And more large companies should use minibuses to transport their employees so there aren't so many cars on the road containing one person


when i first started working many years ago..places like Timex/Levi and Carhearts did have work buses put on for their workers..


this idea should be introduce again not only would it help save our earth but it would help save lives too..less traffic = less accidents..


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« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2007, 11:33:34 am »

Yeah, it's great if all your workers live within a mile of each other - how long will the minibus that would have to travel to Wolverhampton, Tamworth and Lichfield before picking me up in the city centre and then heading out to our office take?

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« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2007, 11:42:24 am »
As many, many of our staff travel in from surrounding villages and towns, we have a car sharing scheme but it doesn't work so well because not everybody works the same hours. i walk to work but I live only a mile from the college. Most of the younger kids are brought in by a bus sytem that collects them from the surrounding villages and towns but once they get to 17 or 18 they want a car of their own and our car park is full to bursting point everyday. We have had to employ staff to control it. oldspice39116.7322222222
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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2007, 11:48:36 am »
I don't drive, but if the government really wants to make people leave their cars at home, putting up car tax and petrol duty isn't the way to do it. What they have to do is make public transport much, much better. I'm lucky with work as my office is only a few minutes walk from about four different bus routes. But I went to see my parents last week and I had to catch two buses, which took nearly an hour, and if I missed one, it was an hour wait for another. In a car it would take 15 minutes.
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« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2007, 11:56:16 am »

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Yeah, it's great if all your workers live within a mile of each other - how long will the minibus that would have to travel to Wolverhampton, Tamworth and Lichfield before picking me up in the city centre and then heading out to our office take?


when i did first start working..people didn't commute and they were not as many cars on the road as they're now..most folks worked in the town they lived in and the work buses were just like the buses now..they all had there own route to follow..it did work well back then..but there weren't any mini buses it was your good old double decker..


do they have car pools there?


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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2007, 12:00:30 pm »
ah Scotland in the old days It will never be like that again

that how the miner, and the steal worker got to work

you should see the amount of cars & trucks now adays

and congestion cause half the problem there just sitting in ques cucking out flumes