<div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Peter Elderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pelderson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pelderson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">> So, in this</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> case, the route wasn't designed for the benefit of a hot-shot on the council or for a single person with COPD</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> (as others have suggested) but for the benefit of a large number of people.</span></div>
<br></span><div>Sorry about that, I shouldn't have attempted humor. <br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>No need to apologize. The hot-shot thing happens everywhere. Especially here in Wales. You can travel<br></div><div>along a main (ish) road with ribbon villages scattered along it and one of those villages has much better<br></div><div>and newer street lighting and road signage than the others. That's where a county councillor lives. There's<br></div><div>even a word for the mechanism behind it: the Tafia (compound of a nickname for a Welsh person, "Taffy," and<br></div><div>"Mafia.")<br><br></div><div>So yes, it's entirely conceivable that a bus route would be altered for the convenience of an individual. Services<br></div><div>about 20 miles away were changed years ago: the changes didn't make sense and greatly inconvenienced<br></div><div>those using the services (and especially those for whom the changed service was no longer useful). The only<br></div><div>rational explanation was that the changes benefited an influential individual.<br></div><div><br>-- <br></div><div>Paul<br><br></div></div></div></div>