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Old December 1st 15, 02:43 PM posted to uk.transport.london
[email protected] spud@potato.field is offline
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Default No more walking up escalators at Holborn

On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:52:39 -0600
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On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 09:13:28 +0100
Robin9 wrote:
Roland Perry;152175 Wrote:
Not many pedestrians on the M25.

That won't deter the anti-motor car fanatics!


Their ultimate goal is quite obviously to get rid of the private car
altogether. They seem to think that because they're fit and healthy and
live only a few hundred metres from a tube station in their organic fair
trade right-on ghetto in London and never go anywhere outside the M25
unless they're in an aircraft, then everyone else must be in a
similar situation. I guess if you're old or infirm and live in an
area that poor or no PT so rely on your car to go anywhere, you can
just go **** off and die.


As my mother found when age required her to give up driving at age 89, she
could rely on online shopping and hire cars (arthritis made the step up to
London-type cabs too difficult).


Thats fine so long as you don't have much of a life and are happy to stay at
home most of the time. Also minicabs cost a fortune. If she'd used more than
a few of those a week that would be her state pension gone.

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Spud