David's blog

Earlier today, I saw a van on fire in the street. It’s since been removed after the fire brigade put it out, though they seemed to take ages to arrive, apparently coming from the next town. I’d just crossed the road after getting off the bus and noticed parcels scattered on the pavement, with a man I assumed to be the driver on the phone saying, “my van is on fire.” It didn’t really sink in until I walked past the front of the van, felt the heat, and saw flames. I asked someone nearby if they’d called the fire brigade—they had—and someone shouted at me to get water, but I didn’t want to get too close in case it exploded. Eventually, the fire brigade arrived and put it out. The van’s now gone, and I suppose they’ll be investigating the cause, though I’m no expert. I’d posted a video on social media to warn people and stop them using the road—it spread quickly online—but I’ve since taken it down, thinking that was for the best. The people wh wer expecting parcels have still not got them

 The people who are trying to organise this bus service which is suppose to start on Monday could not organise a piss up in a brewery, I was looking at the leaflet yesterday when I was a bit bored, the information with the time table on it and I noticed the map was wrong, the had put the village of Gellilydan as be down on the route where they really should have put Maentwrog, even after having two extra years to get things right they are still fucking things up. I also heard that the new service is not serving the far end of Blaenau Ffestiniog which is sad really as or wrong as there has been a bus serving that part of town for ever its not right to expect people to wall all the way from the other end of town in the bad weather, what will happne is that they will say the numbers are down who ues the bus and then they will stop the service, apparently its something to do with the timings I guess they are blaming the 20 mph speed limit that Labour in Wales have put in I am not sure...

  A bus service was introduced round here in 2021 to accommodate the lockdown, before the lockdwon there was an hourly service here which got rudeced to nearly nothing in the first lockdown and then some buses were added, which is where we are today a skeleton service which is in place a long time after any lockdown was in in place.  This service hampeers people's ability to move around especially during the evening when the schedule stops very early which obviously hampers business. There was suppose to be a new bus service starting 19 months to take the place of the lockdown schedule but due to issues such as nimbyism and other things it is yet to start I rang today for a starting date nothing was forthcoming so this service may or may not start in the future there was not even a rough idea of when this fiasco of the introduction of this service was going end. The pavement parking in the village here has gone nuts since the pandemic and I think this is as a result of the shi...