Mobility Stories


What is important in travel and transport: from real humans.


Mobility Memories: What's the word?

22nd October 2024
It was an inauspicious start to travelling by bus for David as a boy: right bus – wrong direction!

Memories of mobility.   From other stories they seem to centre on an early trip, or trips, and that feeling of independence and freedom.

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David Smith: Toddling with a toy lawn moor and rationality

3rd October 2024
Two questions: When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app?

The conversation always takes many directions.

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Mobility Memories: The Incredible Journey

18th July 2024
Mobility Memories. Mobility Moments. Memories of mobility told so vividly by Dot (and by Ian).  
Happy and scary – not in the middle.  

Being stuck in the old slam door train carriage with a mad woman.

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Dot: Safety and belonging in Tiree

18th June 2024
When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app?

Today it is about island transport and life with Dot in Tiree!

Talking to Dot - and slurping our coffee (sorry) it reminded me of when I went to visit Dot in Tiree we scooted around the island in…

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Mobility Memories: We all like to travel...don't we?

30th May 2024
Memories of mobility can be so strong and emotive. Did you go on the bus much when you were a kid? 

Ian’s memories of the bus are so positive: access to countryside; a park in the early morning with no-one in it; an Aunty with a dog.

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Susan, Ian and Matt II: Beans means beans -travel means experience.

13th May 2024
I promised a Mobility Stories podcast "bite" with some more stories from Matt’s travels as told by Susan and Ian. This is a very short  story(6 mins).

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Jon: getting organised, getting out and getting home (via Citymapper)

30th April 2024
Two questions: When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app?

The conversation always takes many directions. On the first day of university in the early 80s my Mum left me with a kiss, a tear and a box of food.

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Ian: In the Campo and Googling Osbaldwick

9th April 2024
Two questions: When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app?

The conversation always takes many directions.  

Ian's a confident traveller. A retired teacher who has lived and worked in Colchester and Manchester and Madrid, and is now retired in rural Andalusia.

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Susan, Ian and Matt: out and about - together

18th March 2024
Two questions: When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app? The conversation always takes many directions. To the really important things. Susan, Ian and Matt took me to trains and planning for travel with autism. They are a formidable unit.

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Rona and Nina: Kindness and the Kissing Ticket

12th March 2024
Two questions: When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app?

The conversation always takes many directions. To the really important things. Rona and Nina took me to the human touch and The Knowledge…and a bus ticket kissing game.

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Gerrit: A Christmas Stormy Story

12th February 2024
Christmas Past – the very recent past. Eight of the family in Kinloch Rannoch for Christmas 2023. We sang carols in the little village church. We jumped in the Loch. We drank whiskies by the fire. All good things come to an end.

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