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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Cycling in Wales
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:51:57 -0500
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On 4/17/2025 10:22 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
> John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:07:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>
>>> https://cyclingindustry.news/welsh-gov-announces-new-spending-for-travel-and-active-travel
>>
>>
>> https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/110299/welsh-government-unveils-new-legislation-to-transform-bus-services/
>>
>> This seems to be a change in the bus system?
> 
> Essentially taking in house, the bus services even around the areas that
> have populations is fairly woeful.
> 
> And bus companies want to run only the profitably routes as you’d expect!
> 
> By bus from my folks place to the local town which is only 6/7 miles away,
> but due to having to walk some distance and height to the bus stops, as the
> bus can’t cope with the steeper roads, and a bus every 30mins or so which
> will loop through the villages to the town.
> 
> You’re getting on for 2hrs, which frankly is walkable in that time. Hence
> folks who have cars use them, if one is fit as the hills though not huge do
> tend to be steep sided bikes aren’t that much behind cars, certainly down
> to the local market town its level between car and bike.
> 
> Roger Merriman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Not very different from the farm I'm at weekends:

https://en-us.topographic-map.com/map-ljzd4s/Richland-County/?center=43.27096%2C-90.56271&zoom=12

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Andrew Muzi
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