Quote from: Ashy on Today at 08:41:21 PMThe controversial mayor of Greater London has demanded that all London's buses shall be battery electric very soon*, so he'll be scrapping or cascading the hybrids and diesels with unbridled haste. A typical double deck battery electric bus weighs over 14 tons, compared to the trolleybus of yesteryear which had three axles and weighed 9 tons. I wonder if he has considered the risks to London's roads, and more importantly to London's buried services, the water mains, the gas mains, the cable ducts and the sewers?

*News today that this project will be creating hundreds of jobs, in China. At around £400,000 each bus they are a bit cheaper than the "Boris Bus" that was built in Ireland for £433,000 each. There are nearly 9,000 buses on London's roads.

All I can say is that I'm glad I don't live in Londonistan.

Quote from: Michael Rolls on Yesterday at 07:44:37 PMon the weight question, as I have mentioned before the socking big battery -

The controversial mayor of Greater London has demanded that all London's buses shall be battery electric very soon*, so he'll be scrapping or cascading the hybrids and diesels with unbridled haste. A typical double deck battery electric bus weighs over 14 tons, compared to the trolleybus of yesteryear which had three axles and weighed 9 tons. I wonder if he has considered the risks to London's roads, and more importantly to London's buried services, the water mains, the gas mains, the cable ducts and the sewers?

*News today that this project will be creating hundreds of jobs, in China. At around £400,000 each bus they are a bit cheaper than the "Boris Bus" that was built in Ireland for £433,000 each. There are nearly 9,000 buses on London's roads.

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Quote from: Silver Tabby on Today at 10:42:02 AMBe sure to look after your wells!

"One year in the Presbyterians times during the civil wars, they neglected the annual  dressing of the salt-well in Driotwich - and the spring became dry, to the great loss of the town.  So thereafter they revived their annual custom (notwithstanding the power of the parliament) and ever since, volens nolens the Minister there ( and also the soldiers) they did and will Dress it, and the salt water returned again and still continues."

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(volens nolens = Latin = willing/unwilling)

A bit like my old school motto: Possumus Volumus = we can and we will
(er, not a posh school, just a local grammar school)!

This site's being rather slow to load today.  Anyone else?

Quote from: GrannyMac on Today at 03:01:28 PMLots of red brick in South Yorks.  North Yorkshire is like a different country! 

NB Hawes sounds nothing like Whores when I say it, I bet Raven would agree! 

Depends if you're a Yorkie!

Quote from: Raven on Today at 05:44:02 PMIf you have a river or loch near you but away from the town, that's a good place to go. They reflect off the water.

I've got a pond in the back garden.  Will that do?

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If you have a river or loch near you but away from the town, that's a good place to go. They reflect off the water.

Another really hot & sunny day in North Lincolnshire.

I've been drafting what needs to done in order for our development to comply with a specific section of public liability.