BBC closing travel website

[Moose423956]

The BBC have decided to close their travel website. I use this every day to check the traffic between work and home, and plan my journey based on that. It's really useful because it's map-based. They're going instead to a text-based service based on local news sites by the looks of it.

Lot of people unhappy about it judging by the comments.

[d000hg]

I never knew this site existed but I heard the reicpes one was very well regarded and was similarly cut for "streamlining". Did anyone end up taking that content over and is that a possibility in this case?

[vetran]

would of thought they could spin them off as separate with the BBC/Government holding shares both are probably very viable

[SlipTheJab]

Wonder if channel 4 will pick it up

[SueEllen]

would of thought they could spin them off as separate with the BBC/Government holding shares both are probably very viable

The BBC are too thick to work out a viable way to do that.

Ideally they would make them commercial but people like Murdoch moan that it ain't fair.

[AtW]

Makes sense - after Brexit almost nobody will be able to afford to travel anyway.

[quackhandle]

Wonder if channel 4 will pick it up

Only if there's Transgender travel reports.

Presented by Jon Snow.

qh

[SueEllen]

Only if there's Transgender travel reports.

Presented by Jon Snow.

qh

You mean Muslim ones presented by Cathy Newman.

[Benny]

Doesn't everyone use Traffic England or it's Scots/ Welsh equivalent?

[NigelJK]

Or it just might be coz we is already paying for one:

Traffic England

Other UK territories are available.


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