The Wondering Brit

In and around London there is a serious traffic issue that has been turned into  a major money making fiasco by both the government, but especially the mayors office – whom have yet to table an effective plan.

So here is mine (and it costs a fortune)

The London orbital motorway (the M25) is beyond bursting point for 20hrs of a 24hr day, so put in two direct central London access motorways - predominantly running underground.

This requires several things;

Major central car parking design close to Tube Stations.

A vehicle age limit and vehicle type set of restrictions.

A basic toll to pay for it’s upkeep.

First the Car Park;

Hyde Park… Dig it up and dig it deep, very deep.

Basically build a massive subterranean car park to take at 100 thousand cars. Hyde park actually has several tube lines running beneath it – so open them up and build new stations.

Put in effective fire suppression equipment and security surveillance with instant response.

Put the park back on top of it..

Vehicle age and type restrictions;

No vehicle over 10yrs old can use it.

No commercial vehicles except taxis, that means no vans, trucks or coaches – Emergency vehicles would be exempt this restriction.

This would drastically cut down congestion, accidents and carbon footprint.

Goods and commercial vehicles will have greater freedom and less likely to be caught up in extensive traffic jams burning valuable fuel etc.

Based on the fact that most air and ventilation systems can be filtered and all these thousands of cars will have somewhere to actually park, London won’t just become far more accessible but cleaner too.

The Motorways would have to be big, very big – at least 8 lanes in either direction with clever lane systems for the central intersection. But all this should secure direct access to the capitol for years to come.

It would also mean that it would only take about 25 minutes to traverse the Capitol rather than the one to two hours it now does.

While a major project, it would be cost effective and probably profitable (unlike the Channel Tunnel) with very little real estate to purchase and the possiblity to offer and allow greater access, means more business for london, less pain on the trains and so on. But another issue it resloves for London is the supply of power to the central area. Underneaith the new system, they can install large scale power conduits, removing a very longstanding and expensive issue indeed.

Also, with service access, emergency services would probably seriously improve their responce times.

You read it here first, so i’m copyrighting it. lol

For 200 years these fearsome little guys from Nepal have been part of the British Army. They were the effective reason why the Argentinean army flew the white flag over Port Stanley.

It’s fair to say Port Stanley was totally surrounded at the time anyway, but when the Argies were informed that the Gurkhas were to attack – they promptly surrendered for ‘fear of being eaten’ (seriously, thats what they thought).

The Gurkhas carry into battle the 16inch long Kukri knife which is frankly one  nasty bit of kit, which they claim is mainly use for cooking these days – yet the tradition still exists – to draw the knife is to draw blood and they will cut themselves as necessary (assuming there are no enemy to chop up) before returning it to it’s sheath.

Their simplistic Motto of “Better to die than be a coward” is effective enough.

The Kukri is still made and supplied by The Kukuri House  today to traditional specifications.

Gurkhas are some of the most friendly people you’re likely to meet and to every last man they’re light hearted and playful comedians, however It’s fair to say that in the rough and tough life of inter-regiment rivalry, no one messes with them.

The British Army are well known for running with vast weight and over long distances, but these guys often double the weight and the distance without breaking a sweat. 

It has now come to a head with many Gurkhas handing back their medals which is about as shameful that any situation can get.

If we as a nation can let all these dumb ass toothbrushes into the UK to live from scum holes like Romania and yet can’t even let trusted loyal servants of Her Majesty the Queen stay – what does that say about our nation?

I can not think of any time before where I believed Her Majesty should intervene – but these are her soldiers and now I wouldn’t accept anything less.

TWB supports the Gurkhas

 For anyone not knowing who and what the Gurkhas are, the following series of videos are a short documentary that will explain. (it’s a little out of date now as they train in Catterick, Yorkshire rather than Hong Kong)

 If any of these links turn black stating the video is no longer available – just click rapidly over the next one to open the YouTube page directly and follow the links there. 

For their service, they are not well treated. For years they have requested that once their service is up they are allowed to remain in the UK as a loyal subjects and tax payers.