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National TravelWise Association - Partnership of local authorities and other organisations working together to promote sustainable transport. Site provides news on the latest travel awareness campaigns in the UK and Europe, advice for schools and businesses, free downloadable materials and access to a network of professional organisations working in the field.
The Institution of Highways and Transportation - IHT aims to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and views on highways and transport policy; to make roads safer for the travelling public; and to encourage training and development to meet today's requirements.
British Waterways - Conserves and manages over 2,000 miles of navigable canals and rivers.
Department forTransport - DFT. Responsible for transport issues. Formerly the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR).
Shipping - Information from the UK Department for Transport on maritime regulation and safety matters.
Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee - Responsible for advising the UK Government on access for disabled people to transport and the built environment. Provides information on access to various modes of transport and details of the Committee's work.
UK Transport Statistics Information - Official reports, publications and data on transport usage within the UK.
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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Transport There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Transport The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Transport By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Transport Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Transport "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Transport Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Transport Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. 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