[Klug-general] Medway Social

[Peter Childs]

On 8 March 2011 08:22, Luc Tidy <luc.tidy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  The Universities are quite well integrated* now.
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> I can get there from Strood on one bus. The bus routes that go there, from
> Chatham, are the 140 and 100 operated by Arriva and the Dockside shuttle bus
> operated by Kings Ferry. Admittedly I've never tried to get there from
> Wainscott way.
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> Similarly, with rail links, going to either Strood or Chatham rail station
> you can get on the nearest bus stop and catch the 140. With the Rochester
> station, it's barely a two minute walk to a bus stop where you can get on
> the 140.
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> *For a certain value of integrated.
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Do you have any idea how few buses go through the tunnel? Its not very far,
(easy to walk) but the Medway Tunnel is a rather large issue.

(Its about 3 buses a day, if that)

Mind you Medway's bus map is not very easy to understand unless you know the
area.....

Peter.



> ~Luc
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> On 08/03/11 07:04, Peter Childs wrote:
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> On 8 March 2011 00:18, Luc Tidy <luc.tidy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thought I'd add this, although I can't grant public wi-fi, nor the nice
>> new buildings of the MKC I do run a society over at the Chatham Maritime
>> Campus under UMSA (Universities at Medway Student Association), and have
>> been doing so for the past few years.
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>> Some of our members have requested that we branch out into a wider remit -
>> and something under the auspices of KLUG would be fine.
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>> If people are interested, let me know. There's the Uni pub which sells
>> food and reasonably costed drinks, and if we would like I can book a lecture
>> room which will have presentation facilities.
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>> And to reiterate Kevin,
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>> Hands up for this location please. We can discuss venue etc under this
>> thread.
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>> Regards,
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>> ~Luc
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> Also in Medway (Wainscott), this would be convient..... Not sure if we
> really want to be very formal....
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>  The only other issue is that the universities are not that close to
> public transport which is a pain, lets just says that Medway needs
> a Integrated Public Transport Plan......
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>  If you need help let me know.
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>  Peter.
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