Posts Tagged ‘public-transport’

What I learned today…

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

William Huskisson MP, the first person to be killed by a steam locomotive (the Rocket no less), was friends with Thomas Hare, the inventor of the single transferable voting system, who only narrowly escaped death seconds before.

And they told me the Electoral Reform Society reception would be a dull affair…

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A tall story

Friday, January 19th, 2007

I’m 6′4″ and I’ve been using buses on an almost daily basis for my entire adult life. At no point have I ever been asked to get off the bus because of my height blocking the drivers’ view.

So this story doesn’t convince. What’s worse is that this is the Telegraph nicking yesterday’s Metro stories. Whatever happened to broadsheet journalism?

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