transport

what is this frosty item ? click to find out.

they do things differently south of the river. here we see a new type of street cleaner, which is really just a fun sized tractor with a fancy trailor.

“it turns a bit cold and the country falls apart” is a common phrase in the UK. it’s also a true one. my trains were broke this morning and the staion announcement said
“hello, we don’t know what’s going on i’m afraid. there might be a train every hour, but we don’t know and we certainly can’t tell you when the next one is due”. Luckily at that moment a train arrived and we all squashed in.
now i’m here, i hope i can get home again …

here’s a photo i took before all the train palava. can you guess what it is ?

two fancy hover-sticks.

we all know about street cameras, but here are some street screens. big brother is watching you, but sometimes he might want to communicate back. this is how it’s done.

someone has parked their ladder in the street. to draw attention to it someone else has drawn a massive white arrow. ladder drivers don’t need to park in car parking spaces. they could simply lean their vehicles up against a wall.
how do ladder learn to drive you ask ? obvious. you strap them on to the top of a car (usually an estate car) and drive round for a bit. they soon pick it up.

here is another transportation device exempt from the congetion charge

what’s this you say ?

it’s the window on my train this morning. the windows are double glazed and about 2 metres wide. this morning my window had water in between the two panes of glass to the depth of about 2 cm. Whenever the train accelerated or slowed down a lovely slow wave of water would ripple along the window and the angle of the water would change. it was really soothing and i watched it for the entire 40 minute journey.
they should fit them as standard.

more congestion charge avoidance schemes. this time, a dentist chair on castors

berlin is famous (on this blog) for having fantastic transportation items chained up in the street. you may remember the flourescent bike from my last trip.
i wasn’t extremely happy to see this tricycle chained up to a lamp post. this would certainly be exempt from the London Congestion Charge

this man cleans belisha beacons

i went to buy a train ticket this morning but the machine had crashed. IP address conflict apparently. ho hum.

you are not allowed to stop under the runway at Gatwick airport which seems fair enough. trains are ok though

there’s no parking here. there’s 6 seperate signs on the same sign post to tell us. unfortunately, the driver of this car is so rich he hasn’t noticed

here are some pictures of the sandbank chain ferry. total journey time is around 3 minutes of chain draggage !

it’s season ticket renewal day today. my ticket includes free travel on all parts of the london underground.
here is the man renewing my ticket:

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i saw this sign in farringdon tube station. i took it’s advice and walked to my destination

i had a car crash on the 7th july 2002. a fool rammed me on a windy road and wrote my car off. here are the photos

(click for big versions)
the reason for telling you ?

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this bike has crashed in to an electric fireplace. no wonder the weather is so mild. a fireplace here, a radiator there