{"id":30622,"date":"2023-04-19T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30622"},"modified":"2023-04-19T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:30:17","slug":"x-is-for-x3-and-x2-and-x1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30622","title":{"rendered":"X is for X3 and X2 and X1 (Abingdon  Oxford buses)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023041907.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBeing in the front seat on the top deck of the X3 bus has all the excitement of a fairground ride, but you don&#8217;t get an announcer shouting, &#8216;Scream if you want to go faster&#8217;. Instead, every stop is announced by a calming voice, &#8216;Vineyard&#8230; Our Ladys Abingdon &#8230; Oxford Road shops &#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There were two Lib Dem posters up the Oxford Road. That is fewer than in previous local elections, and the amount of literature through the door is also reduced.<\/p>\n<p>At the Boundary House, the X3 passed another X3 coming the other way. The drivers waved. My first car was a VW Beetle, and we used to wave to other Beetle owners.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023041908.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt Peachcroft Roundabout, a new flood alleviation pool is visible. Apparently, flooding in North Abingdon after the recent rains is being blamed on the new housing. The latest Abingdon Herald has a headline about calls to stop further house building until the flood risk is sorted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023041904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nReturning to Abingdon, I missed the X3, but the X2 arrived soon afterwards to pick up passengers at St Aldates to Abingdon. <\/p>\n<p>Another X3 had just arrived from Abingdon, coming the other way. Then came the X1, the Wantage, Abingdon, Oxford bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in the front seat on the top deck of the X3 bus has all the excitement of a fairground ride, but you don&#8217;t get an announcer shouting, &#8216;Scream if you want to go faster&#8217;. Instead, every stop is announced by a calming voice, &#8216;Vineyard&#8230; Our Ladys Abingdon &#8230; Oxford Road shops &#8230;&#8217; There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}