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Old February 13th 10, 12:28 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, David Cantrell wrote:

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:09:38PM +0000, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:39:42PM +0000, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Adrian wrote:
Getting back to the original question... Would it be worth sending a
couple of managers from the area over to Sweden or Norway to see how they
manage to run a metric shedload of short ferry services effectively and
efficiently - and free to vehicles and foot passengers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipe...communications
How frequent are those services, and how many vehicles do they move per
trip? A bus-like service needs to move a busload of people every ten
minutes or whatever.
Rubbish. There are zillions of bus services that operate once an hour,
or even less often. They're mostly outside London.

Since we were talking about a service in London, that's of no relevance
whatsoever.


Since when was Sweden part of London?


As far as i know, never. But what we're discussing here - and the clues
are in the newsgroup name, the thread title, and the previous posts in the
thread - is the operation of passenger services across the Thames.
Scandinavia was brought up as an example of somewhere that does ferry
services very well; i was expressing doubt that the problems they solve
there are similar to those in London.

If you need any other help understanding things posted on this newsgroup,
don't hesitate to ask.

tom

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