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kpmcc | 1 year ago

Somewhat unrelated to the piece, but this is the second website I’ve seen in two days that appears to not have properly merged an edit?

“ The RAC’s head of policy, Simon Williams, says many people are overwhelmed by the multitude of apps they have to use, “when in reality you want one that you like and you’re happy using and that you can use everywhere”.

Six years ago the Department for Transport started developing a “national parking platform” (NPP) designed to enable drivers to use one app of their choice to pay for all their parking. It has been trialled by a number of councils, but a big question mark hangs over its future as public funding for the project looks likely to be withdrawn.

The RAC’s head of policy Simon Williams says many people are overwhelmed by the multitude of apps they have to use, “when in reality you want one that you like and you’re happy using and that you can use everywhere”.

Six years ago the Department for Transport started developing a “national parking platform” (NPP) designed to enable drivers to use one app of their choice to pay for all their parking, and it has been trialled by a number of councils. However, a big question mark now hangs over its future as public funding for the project looks likely to be withdrawn imminently.”

I think the other one was an npr piece posted on HN yesterday? Is there a bug with wordpress or are people just getting sloppy?

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4ndrewl|1 year ago

The Guardian is also known as the Grauniad for their lack of detail to grammar, spelling etc .

nooneisanon|1 year ago

Typos and editing bugs are pretty common on The Guardian

[source: grumpy Guardian Weekly subscriber]

aspect0545|1 year ago

I doubt the guardian and npr use Wordpress