Notts and Derby plan to end the 35 bus service https://bustimes.org/services/35-derby-bretton-avenue-havenbaulk-avenue from 20 July.  Local Lib Dems are campaigning to save it. The 35 Bus service only takes about £37 per day, even including the money for ‘free’ bus journeys. This is not enough to pay for the drivers’ wages, fuel, cleaning, insurance and so on. Local […]

Arriva are making changes to their bus services in Derby from around the end of October. This map might help… Arriva Derby L2 Map – Routes and Daytime Frequencies – OCT 15

Cameras have been placed on unexpected corners around the older, narrow roads of Littleover village. These aren’t to catch speeding vehicles but to help work out how much of the traffic using these roads are using them as a ‘rat run’ or short cut – and if so in which way. They’ll probably be there […]

Co-Wheels has come to Derby! This not-for-profit organisation lets its members borrow a car by the hour – or longer. For a monthly £5 membership fee you can book online, collect a car from its local parking point, drive where you need to go and return the car to its base for a very competitive […]

Drive down Constable Drive and today you’ll meet temporary traffic lights – and probably several water tankers.  At times the water pressure in Littleover, especially near here at the top of the hill, has been low.  What is going on? Water is being pumped ino the reservoir, not because its usual supply needs repair, but […]

After the Royal Derby Hospital was built, a row of trees was planted along the boundary with Kings Drive which in time would help to obscure the buildings from Jackson Avenue.  After a shaky start (quite a lot died and had to be replaced) they are now looking good. But if they aren’t looked after […]

A week ago I passed on a complaint from a local resident to the Council about the state of the pavement at the top of Pastures Hill. If it wasn’t for the wide grass verge, pupils would have been walking in the road because of the trees and other plants growing across the path.  I […]

Derby Lib Dems join call to cut betting shop gambling down in size. Fixed odds betting terminals, the electronic roulette machines in betting shops, have been called the crack cocaine of gambling.  Since 2005 they have been allowed in betting shops and people can gamble £100 every 20 seconds. Evidence from the gambling industry suggests […]

If the drains – properly called ‘gulleys’ – in the gutter along side roads don’t drain, not only does it mean puddles and flooding, it also means that the tarmac wears out faster – the extra water washing it away that bit quicker. For all these reasons it’s good to make sure that they are clear. Several […]

Again tonight the right turn filter from Manor Road into Uttoxeter New Road (to town) didn’t change to green when I expected it.  The traffic from Kingsway towards the hospital was flowing, and my queue still had to wait.   This was the third time in as many journeys (and days). It’s happened before.  It […]