the funniest result of 1968 is perhaps Zhou Enlai being asked in 1972 'what do you think about the French revolution' and saying 'it is too soon to tell' because he was talking about *1968* not 1789 and this resulting in decades of orientalist 'the chinese think in centuries' stuff

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Free transit for under 18 (well, ok, everyone, but I digress) - roads are pretty free, I can park in over a million places in #autowa, both sides of the street, any street, for at least 2 hours, “included in my taxes”, why do I have to pay to take a bus?

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I did not know it had been detrunked. The on street parking needs to be removed as it causes lots of issues. Replace with a wider pavement. There's parking in Cromford and in Matlock. Like to see the double line returned on the railway and then it can be one train every half an hour as well.

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The "work for everyone" is also quickly becoming the new "balance the needs of all road users" - it's political (small p) shorthand for not making any actual decisions about what we want to prioritise within limited street resources.

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Saalbach in Austria has a by-pass in a tunnel and bollards in the middle of the village. Even buses only stop each end of the village.

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