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Great Western Coffee Shop > All across the Great Western territory > Buses and other ways to travel (Data Managers: Bus_Lady, VickiS) > Mummy, there's a big bus behind that's gonna swallow us!!!
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« on: August 05, 2010, 16:51:41 »

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/04082010/36/incredible-bus-tunnel-0.html

I'm speechless. Over to you for some comments!
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2010, 17:47:08 »
Brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant!  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2010, 18:21:21 »
Oh dear. I really wouldn't want to be driving under one of those when someone flushed the toilet....
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2010, 20:48:29 »
Simple painted lines on the road are all that's needed to guide the bus.

what happens when they wear away or get dug up for roadworks?
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