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poliphiloKent is London’s front yard. It’s like one huge urban park. There are open areas but they’re all very tidy, and you’re never far from houses and roads.
Ailz and I talk about moving down here, but I dunno- it gives me claustrophobia.
Ian and Jenny took us for a drive this afternoon. The narrow country roads and the narrow urban streets were all of them chocka. We wound up in Reculver- a seaside caravan park with a big field that used to be a Roman fort and the ruins of a medieval church with two big towers at its west end. There was a cold mist coming in off the sea and blowing through the empty windows of the church so I took lots of photographs and thought about Dracula.
On the way home we talked about road congestion. Ailz favours smart cars and Ian favours mono-rails and I like the idea of strap-on jet-packs, but one way or another we’re going to have to come up with a new philosophy or a new technology soon, or the south-east of England will simply seize up.
Ailz and I talk about moving down here, but I dunno- it gives me claustrophobia.
Ian and Jenny took us for a drive this afternoon. The narrow country roads and the narrow urban streets were all of them chocka. We wound up in Reculver- a seaside caravan park with a big field that used to be a Roman fort and the ruins of a medieval church with two big towers at its west end. There was a cold mist coming in off the sea and blowing through the empty windows of the church so I took lots of photographs and thought about Dracula.
On the way home we talked about road congestion. Ailz favours smart cars and Ian favours mono-rails and I like the idea of strap-on jet-packs, but one way or another we’re going to have to come up with a new philosophy or a new technology soon, or the south-east of England will simply seize up.
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Date: 2005-03-26 03:09 pm (UTC)Had a client once with a well-developed proposal for a monorail linking two large, congested, nearby conurbations (Southampton and Portsmouth). If such a system could succeed anywhere then that'd be the place, but the client went bust trying to get the local authorities even to look at it.
Strap-on jet-packs, now you're talking, but the hot exhaust's a bit of a worry, and no doubt the nanny state would put forward other safety-based objections. Nearest available equivalent, I think, is the powered two-wheeler. I chose that mode of transport specifically for its congestion busting properties, and it works like a charm.