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[email protected] · July 5th 10, 11:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
10:27:08 on Mon, 5 Jul 2010, remarked:
How many million tourists does Peterborough get each year? Get real!

How many tourists arrive in Cambridge by twirly-pass?

They use them when they are here!

So these are UK-resident OAP tourists who arrived by train and then
use the buses around the City?

And when I was last in Cambridge it was difficult to spot many
tourists over the age of 25, irrespective of how they'd arrived.

Your blinkers are showing.

Using my eyes (sans blinkers).

Anyway, you still haven't said how many tourists there are in
Peterborough.

They wouldn't be using the bus to get around inside Peterborough,
as all the tourist stuff is within walking distance. Oxford, York
and Lincoln might have a problem with people using buses within the
city limits.

But I'd expect the vast majority of OAP visitors to all these
places to be coming into the centre to do their shopping, not
sightseeing.

Stop trolling just this once, please, Roland. We are talking about the
cost to councils of non-residents using bus passes!

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Colin Rosenstiel