{"id":178411,"date":"2018-12-06T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/06\/tardis-meet-turdis\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:25:00","slug":"tardis-meet-turdis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/06\/tardis-meet-turdis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tardis, Meet Turdis"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The residents of Biggin Hill, which is perhaps the the most English place name in the UK, are upset because the local transit agency has installed a massive outside rest room for its bus drivers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Residents on a quiet residential road have complained after transport planners installed an 11-ft lavatory block for bus drivers outside their homes.<\/span>

<\/span>On Tuesday Transport for London (TfL) installed the lavatory block – dubbed the \u201cTurdis\u201d by angry residents – on a street in Biggin Hill, on the border of South London and Kent, amid claims that homeowners on the road were not consulted.<\/span>

<\/span>Local councillor Julian Bennington said that furious residents smashed its windows within hours of its installation earlier this week and that its lock is already broken.<\/span>

<\/span>He said: \u201cPeople are very angry – it’s literally outside their houses.<\/span>

<\/span>“It’s a monstrosity dumped here – the size of it and everything else – in the middle of what is a residential area.<\/span>

<\/span>“We knew nothing about it as local councillors and the council didn’t either. Residents have now been asking about why they weren’t consulted.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t want to make fun of this situation, but a, “Turdis in Biggin Hill,” is simply too much to ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The residents of Biggin Hill, which is perhaps the the most English place name in the UK, are upset because the local transit agency has installed a massive outside rest room for its bus drivers: Residents on a quiet residential road have complained after transport planners installed an 11-ft lavatory block for bus drivers outside …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,609,518,471,421],"class_list":["post-178411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-infrastructure","tag-science-fiction","tag-transportation","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}