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Default River Transport Services - a couple of observations

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:12:13 +0930, Aidan Stanger wrote:

As for the point about the peirs, remember that Thames Clippers is a
commercial service. They can't just decide to pull up at any pier which
takes their fancy.


But can't TfL allocate them any pier which takes their fancy?


the clippers are excellent, agreed, but they'd be better if they served a
'proper' peir at Hungerford, like the one outside Embankment Tube or the
Festival Hall, or both. Not the windswept, facility free Savoy.

TfL have refurbed a number of piers to a high standard, and have given the
Clipper operator a dolop of public funding as well. Better integration to go
along with this would be nice.

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