CBRD Blog

Welcome to the Blog

Hello there, and welcome to the new CBRD Blog!

If you’ve been visiting the site for a few years now, you might recall that this is actually the second attempt at running a blog alongside the main website. The first existed in the early months of 2006, and came to a premature and unhappy end for a range of reasons.

For a start, it wasn’t the right time for me to start running a blog - that was the end of my final year at university so I didn’t have enough time to devote to it, and CBRD was going through a bit of a slow patch. I also used some rather inferior software to run the blog, with the result that it had an enormous problem with spam comments which I simply wasn’t able to keep up with.

The future is a little brighter for Blog mk2. I have the time to deal with it properly, for one thing. And this time it’s running on Wordpress, which is a more professional piece of software and is very adept at dealing with spam. I’ve also loosened the remit a little: before, it was purely opinion pieces, whereas now I’m free to discuss the website (there’s already some of that below) and other connected interests. That should help to keep it moving along at a reasonable pace.

Here’s what I’m aiming for:

• regular posts from me on a range of topics.
  When there’s news to discuss, I’ll aim to provide some analysis and opinion of developments on the road network. At other times, I’ll be posting on more general road-related themes, transport in general, and behind-the-scenes stuff relating to CBRD itself (including the occasional sneak preview).
• some participation and discussion from you.
  I always think that the most enjoyable blogs are the ones where the readers are active and there is a range of opinion on the subjects that are raised. I hope that can happen here. You can sign up for your own account on the CBRD Blog which will allow you to post comments as a ‘regular’ if you like, or you can post anonymously. In the future I hope members will be able to do more than just post comments.
• guest writers to periodically contribute a piece of their own opinion.
  It’s all very well me getting on my soap box and setting the world to rights, but it would be much more entertaining if there were a few different voices writing on the Blog. Once some momentum has built up, I’ll start inviting people to guest-post. Some will probably become regulars.

So here we are - potentially a valuable and interesting addition to CBRD. I hope you like it - perhaps this time it will last more than a few weeks!