{"id":3510,"date":"2023-12-08T03:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/we-need-to-reduce-motor-car-use\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T03:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:29:48","slug":"we-need-to-reduce-motor-car-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/we-need-to-reduce-motor-car-use\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need To Reduce Motor Car Use"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0… But Don’t Go By Bus?<\/span><\/p>\n\n In the fbbs strode to pay for their tide on a boat that would take them up and down via the big box of water that rotated on TWO very misshapen wheels!<\/p>\n “Sorry, we are fully booked for today<\/span>” came the disheartening reply. So, after watching a few rotations, the fbbs went back to their holiday pad.<\/p><\/div>\n There were two reasons for that sad neglect of Falkirk’s tourist attractions. Firstly, there wouldn’t have been time but, secondly, they hadn’t been built yet<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n … running every hour between the two as route 100 but not advertised as such.<\/p>\n Frankly, an hourly frequency is not good enough to attract possible visitors to travel to both without a car; but with careful planning it was possible.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … which wasn’t pink when fbb visited.<\/p><\/div>\n … but fbb has never seen it. Pink shelters painted to match\u00a0 pink bus – good branding, good publicity …<\/p>\n … and matching shelters.<\/p><\/div>\n Them in June of this year (?) McGills withdrew route 6 completely, meaning that there were no buses at all to The Wheel.<\/p><\/div>\n But the F14A does not run to the pink shelter at The Wheel visitor centre. It is quite a long walk and not terribly obvious. Quicker, as shown on the map above, is a short trot from the 7\/8 terminus.<\/p><\/div>\n … you get off the bus at the lavish terminal loop (no shelter of any colour) and walk round to the left. After a few yards take a rather ordinary footpath.<\/p>\n The path curves round to join the north bank of a former canal …<\/p>\n There is the stop …<\/p>\n … and there are footpath routes from the 2\/2A and the 3\/4 (above in RED<\/span>).<\/p><\/div>\n … and long …<\/p>\n … and winding …<\/p>\n … and winding …<\/p>\n … until the Kelpies appear\/<\/p><\/div>\n