It's full steam ahead for pensioner Roger Jenking in his novel way to test the new bus concessionary scheme.
The new system for free travel for our pensioners starts on April 1 but Mr Jenking is no fool in his planning.
He wants to journey from Oxford to Crewe by early evening.
Why Crewe is a bit of a mystery to us but it will be a mammoth 10-and-a-half hour, 100-mile trip.
It is quite a task, but if forward planning is the key then he is already on the road to success.
He is limited by how he can use the concessionary system but that is half the fun in this attempt.
To plot a journey from Oxford to Chipping Norton, then to Stratford, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stoke and then Crewe takes some doing.
If he succeeds it can only encourage our senior citizens that this new system is worth signing up to.
How many follow in his footsteps all the way to Crewe - as lovely as it must be - is debatable however.
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