There were some surprising numbers given at yesterday's workshop: a quarter of Weston-super-Mare households don't use a car, while only 37% of men and 24% of women take the minimum recommended exercise (at least 30 minutes 5 days a week). Meanwhile, the West of England's traffic is growing at three times the national average and
congestion is already a big problem, WsM's population has grown 34% in a decade and the southwards expansion of the town around the dual carriageway seems unlikely to slow that.
Two-fifths of WsM journeys are under 5km, but over half of those are done by car. In short, if we don't get walking, cycling and mass transport working, this town is going to become very ugly, and expensive to live and work in. The walking and cycling strategy is being developed now with Halcrow consultants and a draft will be published in December, to help shape planning and transport policies, as well as works programmes.
So, yesterday, they seemed particularly interested in: what stops people from walking and cycling more? What can be done to put them right? What do people think of shared-use paths? Do cyclists prefer to be on-road? What stops them being on-road? I guess answers from non-Weston-residents would also be interesting in the forum or comments box...
Sorry for the short notice of yesterday's event. It's been a bit manic here lately and I believed that there was a shortage of places - as it happened, there could easily have been three times as many people there. I guess that means you're likely to have an effect if you email your thoughts and suggestions to
sustainable.travel@n-somerset.gov.uk telephone 01934 634848 or post them to The Sustainable Travel Team, North Somerset Council, Somerset House, Oxford Street, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1TG.
I have not forgotten about the componentisation tutorial. I'm just trying to find an ObjectAdapter that sucks less.
The mighty PortableObjectAdapter (POA) is just that: portable. Hence, it does not require the C++ compiler to support RTTI, so it cannot determine whether an object that is passed as a reference is a proxy or the implementation itself. That makes automatic "activation" of objects difficult, because without that information, you cannot create shortcuts in call chains if two objects that live on the same host have been introduced to each other by a third on another host.
So I'm looking for an implementation that uses RTTI to that effect, in order to have a non-overwhelming first example.
