Andrew wrote:
";

- the Government will actively explore options for giving an
increased role for the Mayor on discrete services within the GLA
boundary;


Sorry if this sounds flippant, but what are 'discrete services' ?
Trains that no one knows about ? Or do they just run very quietly ?

Discrete and discreet have discrete meanings.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/discreet.html

Presumably it means that the Mayor will get control, sorry, "an
increased role", for defined individual services, e.g. Waterloo -
Richmond - Hounslow - Waterloo, but perhaps not Waterloo - Richmond -
Reading.
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Richard J.
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