Posts Tagged ‘ travel ’

Network WM in URL Hell

Network WM in URL Hell

Planning your journey online can be useful, save time and money if you do it right (and if then the busses actually turn up of course) so kudos to Network West Midlands for promoting that. In a bold marketing move, they’ve got for a poster campaign all over the city to promote planning your journey online without mentioning where one might do that. Small posters and large billboards:   No web address, URL, app, QR code, nor mention of any of the three online journey planning services they promote at all. Brave egalitarian move, or oversight (all of the posters they’ve got that promoting offline things like bus-passes do have their web address on)? Bold, brave. Er, Centro?

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Danny Smith: On the buses

The opinions of Danny Smith do not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers of this blog, its affiliates, or any sane adult human beings. He currently lives in your cupboard, watching, always watching. I am thirty years-old (-ish) and have lived in Birmingham all my life (except the times I haven’t) in that time I have never learnt to drive. Consider this my favour to you. Seeing as I’m an notorious booze enthusiast, prone to bad decisions, and have somewhat of an impulse problem giving me a car would be like giving a toddler semi automatic weapon; hilarious but someone would get hurt. So I get around using public transport, more specifically the bus. Now its easy to complain about the bus system in Birmingham, as you’ll see in the next few hundred words. But I, as ever, have a point.

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Interactive Travel Map

Based on Google Maps, Network West Midlands (who are in overall charge of buses trains and the metro) have done a great job on this map. Not only can you zoom right down into individual bus-stops – but you can see the timetable when you do, and even plan routes. Good work.

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Budget Best Of Brum

Much longer version of an article I wrote for this week’s Guardian Travel Section – they said 300 words, but I can’t shut up when I get going: Rush Hour Blues: Free Commuter Jazz Symphony Hall, Friday evenings Don’t worry, it’s not free jazz as in a wizened old saxophonist honking and squeaking with a split reed until your eardrums bleed. In fact the definition of jazz as it relates to these smashing gigs is pretty loose, as is everything about the experience, there’s none of the snobbery normally associated with jazz. Just trot up to the Symphony Hall bar after work on a Friday and you’ll get some of the finest chill-out sounds around. Cannon Hill Park – including the MAC and Nature Centre Pershore Road A vast expanse of greenery near to the centre of town, it has all the usual park features, boating lake, dilapidated putting green, but it’s also home to the Midland Arts Centre (huge variety of exhibitions, films and performances) and the wonderful, otterific Nature Centre. Where else can you see hundreds of furry creatures for under two quid? Ikon Gallery Brindleyplace Simon Patterson, of Great Bear fame, and Olafur Eliasson are just...

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