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In Cryo Sleep
Following on a discussion in the glorious IRC channel, we have been discussing possible transport implications of i43 moving to telford.
Telford is not confirmed yet. This is mere pondering on the idea.
From the map it seems that theres a nice bundle of people in the southeast (e.g. from southampton around to the line between telford and ipswitch)
There are currently 11 people showing up on the map (me, bob, 3dge, bloke, trax, bacon, carps, spicy, huung, vel, ........
I LIE
10 people showing up on the map cos some people are in twice
Now I know there are a few other people who *could* end up in that section, e.g. Pingue, who fails hard, silkth/solemn, who are around bucks afaik, vibs/alex/notfred etc who are in the stevenagey area.
However, some of these people already have car transport, so might not really apply to them as much.
Whichever way : I'm babbling. Those of us who dont have easy access to car transport to get up to telford, are possibly looking at getting some form of minibus up there.
Now there are a few options
1) Hire a minibus - there are various hoops and jumps you have to get through to do this regarding age of driver and suchlike. Cost of the hire and petrol can be reimbursed and split between us, but we can't actually pay the driver, which I'm fine with . Then we'd book the minibus from thurs>mon (+ any other days we might need)
2) Hire a minibus + driver - meet up somewhere vaguely central to us southern lot (e.g. somewhere around oxford based on that google map), and then get up to telford from there.
Of course there are various issues with both. e.g. if we went for 2) people then still need to get to oxford with their gear somehow, but with 1) it could be a bit more flexible, e.g. go via a couple of stops on the way. 1) might be more expensive if we needed to book the minibus for 5 days rather than just the days we need it for.
So a heads up of who would want / can give transport then?
Thoughts / ideas / comments?
Telford is not confirmed yet. This is mere pondering on the idea.
From the map it seems that theres a nice bundle of people in the southeast (e.g. from southampton around to the line between telford and ipswitch)
There are currently 11 people showing up on the map (me, bob, 3dge, bloke, trax, bacon, carps, spicy, huung, vel, ........
I LIE
10 people showing up on the map cos some people are in twice
Now I know there are a few other people who *could* end up in that section, e.g. Pingue, who fails hard, silkth/solemn, who are around bucks afaik, vibs/alex/notfred etc who are in the stevenagey area.
However, some of these people already have car transport, so might not really apply to them as much.
Whichever way : I'm babbling. Those of us who dont have easy access to car transport to get up to telford, are possibly looking at getting some form of minibus up there.
Now there are a few options
1) Hire a minibus - there are various hoops and jumps you have to get through to do this regarding age of driver and suchlike. Cost of the hire and petrol can be reimbursed and split between us, but we can't actually pay the driver, which I'm fine with . Then we'd book the minibus from thurs>mon (+ any other days we might need)
2) Hire a minibus + driver - meet up somewhere vaguely central to us southern lot (e.g. somewhere around oxford based on that google map), and then get up to telford from there.
Of course there are various issues with both. e.g. if we went for 2) people then still need to get to oxford with their gear somehow, but with 1) it could be a bit more flexible, e.g. go via a couple of stops on the way. 1) might be more expensive if we needed to book the minibus for 5 days rather than just the days we need it for.
So a heads up of who would want / can give transport then?
Thoughts / ideas / comments?