One of the little gems in the "Tring Triangle" - the Victorian areas south of the High Street
WEST PASSAGE, TRING. A Victorian Terrace with pedestrian access only. An oasis of calm in the centre of the town, last Tuesday.
7 Nov 2020
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Conservatives Defy 12,000 Petitioners and Demand £1.5m More is Cut from Bus Services
Despite over twelve thousand Herts residents petitioning for bus services to be protected the Conservatives in County Hall are still determined to slash bus services across the County.The County Council Highways and Transport Panel Tories voted down proposals from the Liberal Democrats that would have protected bus services and saved £753,000. They chose to ignore their own public consultation which showed only 30 people out of 4,548 supported cuts in services and also ignored 10 petitions totalling over 12,000 signatures from local residents opposing cuts. Instead the Conservatives have pushed through plans for a new consultation on cutting £1m from the bus budget. Rather than save bus services the Conservatives at County Hall are looking at capping bus subsidies at a level that will mean no buses at all in some of our most rural areas and stopping certain routes at 7.30pm. Cllr Stephen Giles-Medhurst, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and the Opposition on Hertfordshire County Council, commented: "The full
6 Nov 2014
Carbon Capture and Storage is Essential - but it's not a Free Lunch.
Carbon capture has actually been around for a long time. In the late 1930s it was used to remove carbon dioxide from town case to improve its calorific value - but not for long.
6 Feb 2020
First Taxi Marshal Scheme in Dacorum
A taxi marshalling scheme has been introduced in Hemel Hempstead, to supervise the new taxi rank outside the Old Town Hall and to direct customers from night outings into licensed taxis and private hire vehicles.
13 Nov 2014
A Promise of Improved Rail Services in East of England Region Post-Covid
It's important that travellers return to public tranport post-covid. There may well be fewer journeys made, but it would be an environmental tragedy if passengers went back to private motor car journeys with a lone driver.
3 May 2020
HS2 Attracts Controversy and Argument as Cheaper and Cost-Effective Schemes like East-West Rail are Ignored
HS2 could make an important contribution to the UK economy and to rail communications generally, perhaps with more realistic technical specifications - and especially with a lowering of the maximum design speed. There is a risk of course that it will just suck more jobs, businesses and prosperity out of the Midlands and engender a new breed of "super-commuters". Meanwile other projects suffer and there is a developing case for building HS3, an express cross-Pennine railway, independently. This would be cheaper and could provide significant regional development with less risk and greater cost-effectiveness.
27 Jan 2020