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16 The Link Magazine • December 2002
Twin town transport Putting the art into Walmart
In a departure of naming buses after railway engines, three shuttle "We did it our way" say Grennan and Sperandio
buses operated by Thamesdown Transport will be named Salzgitter, An art exhibition partly conceived in Frank Sinatra's favourite Italian
after Swindon's German twin, Ocotal, the town in Nicaragua tied restaurant in New York has been unveiled and is on the move around
with Swindon and the third will probably be named after Highworth's Swindon on a Thamesdown Transport double decker.
twin Pontorson.
In a distinct light blue NHS liv- The planning permission for the
ery, the new number 16 will run hospital required the trust to re-
non-stop every 12 to 15 minutes duce car use and they have made a
between the town centre to major financial contribution to the
Commonhead £330,000 cost of brand new buses.
Unveiling the new
name to appear on
the Hospital Ex-
press during Inter-
national Twinning
Week in October,
the Mayor Stan
Pajak and Reg The bus and billboards, depict- our images travelling around on a
Clarke, chair of ing local people, are decorated by bus, but we were in Gino's on the
Swindon's twin- large cartoons created by interna- Upper East Side, where Sinatra
ning association,
tionally known artists Simon liked to go, that we decided on the
and German ex-
change workers, Grennan, from Brighton, and New style for the billboards," said
Ines Friedrich and Yorker Christopher Sperandio. Simon. "They are very big pictures
David Fabian They spent the early part of the to be looked at from a distance, but
year finding out about people's you have to go in close to see the
All change for new routes and times from 2 December lives, and meeting Asda Walmart words on the cartoon strip."
In the largest review of services for nearly twenty years, Thamesdown shoppers at the North Swindon The bus will be seen around
Transport bus services are being reorganised to provide new routes, District Centre before assembling Swindon for a year and the bill-
timings and greater frequency. their portraits. boards will change every month.
The opening of the Great Western Hospital on 3 December is the Four pages in the November Link They can be seen in Walmart, and
motivating force behind the changes, but the opening up of new were dedicated to their work. on the corner of County Road and
housing developments at Priory Vale and Groundwell West is also an Simon and Christopher ex- Manchester Road and in Rod-
opportunity to provide new services. changed ideas across the Atlantic bourne.
Staff will be out and about replacing 450 timetable display cases electronically. But it was at a per- For details on the project funded
across the town over the weekend of 30 November and 1 December. sonal encounter that they came up by Asda Walmart, go to:
A new timetable is available from the Travel Shop in Fleming Way or with the billboard design. www.swindonartscape.co.uk
go to www.thamesdown-transport.co.uk "We knew we wanted to have www.swindonlink.com

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