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Graeme Wall · September 28th 19, 10:38 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 28/09/2019 07:30, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 19:26:11 on Fri, 27 Sep
2019, remarked:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:48:55 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:23:25 on Mon, 23 Sep
2019, remarked:
I used to work near heathrow and the number of people travelling
there by
private car was a small percentage of the total.

Total public transport (by passengers) has crept up to 40% over the
last
decade (from 35%). Then there's the staff.

It would take probably 500+ cars just to replace 1 full tube train
so god
knows
how they calculate that.

By doing proper professional surveys.

Would these be the same proper professional surveys that predicted a
brexit
referendum win for remain?

Doing a historical traffic survey is a rather different task to opinion
polling.

of one of the private parking companies.

Good view of the kiss-and rides at the three terminal complexes?

Nope. North side.

QED.

Why? The parking pounds arn't in the airport are they. I'm not talking
about
the carparks run by Heathrow Plc.

Not sure *what* you are talking about. But one thing's clear, you
couldn't have seen but small fraction of the car traffic in/out of the
Heathrow complex.

And if you were staring out of the window you weren't doing your job.

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Graeme Wall
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