[Glastonbury] an idea develops? - transport

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Probably the best thing to give a potential client travelling this way is - A 
MAP!

Whats being built at Morlands (RDA)? Will there be new accomodation & 
business / conference facilities here?


Quoting Sean Miller <sean@seanmiller.net>:

> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 
> >On a relatively unfamiliar road it's an hour on narrow roads from the M5
> >turning :(  It's probably still 1/2 hour from Wells if you don't know
> >the road - and Wells itself is a half hour from Bristol.  From 
> >
> Erm.... now I'm going to sound like my neighbour, the public relations 
> guru Mr Wheeler... what a load of absolute claptrap...
> 
> The M5 junction at Puriton is less than half an hour away on a *bad* day 
> (it's only 15 miles straight along the A39!!) and the junction at 
> Highbridge (a route I travel every day) takes me, on average, 15-20 
> minutes to get to... 30 minutes if I encounter cows....
> 
> Wells is 6 miles away and you don't need to "know the road"... you just 
> get on the Glastonbury bypass (the A39) and stay on it until it brings 
> you to Wells.... probably 10 minutes later at *worst*... if it takes you 
> half an hour to "find" Wells then you have gone wrong somewhere!
> 
> Wells is actually probably slightly more than half an hour from Bristol, 
> well at least the centre of Bristol, but you're not far off on that one...
> 
> I travel from Glastonbury to North Bristol (Aztec West, M4/M5 junction) 
> to work and it normally takes me between 50 minutes and an hour.... 
> that's 20 minutes to get to the M5 and 30 minutes on it....
> 
> >Cheltenham it's an hour or so to Bristol then a few minutes to the M5 
> >turn.  I can just see myself coming the 120 miles or so from London
> >to Bristol then spending another hour++ finding Glastonbury.
> >[Festival time is different - all roads lead to Glastonbury/Pilton
> >and the locals can't get in/out :( ]
> >
> And on what authority are you making this assumption about the "locals 
> can't get in/out" ? I have managed to quite happily get in and out of 
> Glastonbury for twenty years of festivals... I did not notice anybody 
> suggesting setting up in Pilton!! ;-o
> 
> >There is a Forte Travelodge close-ish which _does_ have conference 
> >facilities IIRC.
> >
> A Forte Travelodge in Glastonbury?  I don't think so.... ah, got it!! 
> ...you're confusing Glastonbury with Gillingham... that's probably an 
> hour from the M5 ;-)
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
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