Category: Weekly Updates
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Weekly Diary ( 21st Oct – 27th Oct)
Monday Trip to Northern Rail Depot at Newton Heath. The depot is one of the oldest in the country and together with their depot in Allerton (Liverpool) is responsible for keeping the fleet on the rails. Northern Rail inherited its fleet when it won the franchise in 2004. The trains were recognised as some of…
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Weekly Update September 11th to 17th
Thursday 11th Sept Walked to Salford Royal Hosp for out patients on my broken shoulder. Still not the easiest hospital to reach from Stretford. Could have used Metrolink but a single ticket prohibitive and by the time I’d walked to Stretford Met, changed at Cornbrook and travelled that interminable tram journey through the Quays, I…
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Quote of the Day
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport." Enrique Peñalosa, Former Mayor of Bogata, Columbia Youtube: Why Buses represent Democracy in Action
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Weekly Diary 18th November 2013
Remembrance Sunday, Ken Weston RIP and the weekly diary
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Weekly Diary 10th November 2013
Waterpark under threat and campaigning stories.
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Council Meeting 23rd Jan 2013
Full Council – a little background Full council meets once every two months or so. At this time of the year it’s a little more often, because it’s the time of setting budgets, but the full council meeting perhaps surprisingly, is not a major part of the councillor’s workload. And for that small mercy I’m…