On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:50:44 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:


It isn't bizarre. You simply have a wrong mental model of the situation.
Apostrophes are *not* used for indicating possession,

Well, according to the dictionary, they are.....

And lo, Graham Murray spake unto
us all anouncing

In uk.railway, (PRAR) writes:

Why not just have zone 7? You could put all the tube ABCD
zones into it, move the stations that are actually outside
Z6 into it and fix a few other anomalies.

As well as making a good excuse for increasing the price of an
all-zone travelcard.

Yep, you'd not be able to get the Z1-6 daily just the Z1-7.
You may need to keep the Z1-4 (it's basically an all zone
bus pass with a bit of rail validity) and the Z1-2). The
Z2-7 would replace the Z2-6 with comensurate price rise.

Does the travelcard revenue cover it's costs or is it
supported through national (SRA) and local (TFL) government
subsidy? If it's supported then some input from the other
local authorities will be required (which I can't see them
stumping up voluntarily), but if it's the reverse then why
not.

I'd try to include Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs,
Watford, St Albans, Dartford, Staines, Chafford Hundred and
Cheshunt in zone 7 for starters. Windsor, Woking, Slough,
etc may be a bit too far though.

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PRAR writes
You may need to keep the Z1-4 (it's basically an all zone bus pass with
a bit of rail validity)

The Z1 Travelcard can be described as "an all-zone bus pass with a bit
of rail validity". The Z1-4 gives a *lot* of rail validity.

*All* Travelcards, irrespective of their zonal validity, can be used
throughout the TfL bus network.

--
Dave

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:45:55 +0000 (UTC), Mike Bristow
wrote:




It isn't bizarre. You simply have a wrong mental model of the situation.
Apostrophes are *not* used for indicating possession,

Well, according to the dictionary, they are.....

According to the dictionary, spelt is spelt 'kljsajhsajkhsajh'.

????

But my dictionay isn't very good. Which dictionary are you using?

Collins English Dictionary - "Apostrophe n. the punctuation mark '
used to indicate the ommission of a letter or a number..... also used
in English to form the possessive"

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:19:15 +0100, Dave
wrote:



The same obsession which runs parallel to claiming to be the "capital
city"

What's wrong with that?

and naming the county hall "City Hall"

as has been explained "County Hall" is elsewhere.

when GL isn't a city.

nor is it a county

It has also spread to road signs where various places have been
omitted/deleted and replaced by compass-point London where the road
doesn't even lead to London or to a sensible approach route for the
signed part of London.

Can you give an example, please?

K writes
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:19:15 +0100, Dave
wrote:

Can you give an example, please?

Please be careful with your attributions - none of the words you quoted
were mine.

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...

previous examples exist in the way that previous managements
gave districts of Paris and Moscow numbers in lieu of names

I thought Parisian districts were given numbers because the pre-existing
neighbourhoods and road layout were demolished so thoroughly under Hausmann
that keeping the old names was pointless?

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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:41:24 +0100, Dave
wrote:

K writes
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:19:15 +0100, Dave
wrote:

Can you give an example, please?

Please be careful with your attributions - none of the words you quoted
were mine.

Well, it looked like they were from you - there were no indictaiopns
that you had quoted them.

K writes
Please be careful with your attributions - none of the words you quoted
were mine.

Well, it looked like they were from you - there were no indictaiopns
that you had quoted them.

No indications?!?!? Can you read?

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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:56:02 +0100, Dave
wrote:

K writes
Please be careful with your attributions - none of the words you quoted
were mine.

Well, it looked like they were from you - there were no indictaiopns
that you had quoted them.

No indications?!?!? Can you read?

Sorry for misquoting you but in your message you said

-----------quoted bit cut & pasted--------------------
The same obsession which runs parallel to claiming to be the "capital
city" and naming the county hall "City Hall" when GL isn't a city. It
has also spread to road signs where various places have been
omitted/deleted and replaced by compass-point London where the road
doesn't even lead to London or to a sensible approach route for the
signed part of London.
----------end of quoted bit

As you see, there are no marks preceding the lines to show it was a
quote.

Looking back at the thread I see that it _was_ a quote, so I once
again apologize for misquoting you.