tim..... wrote:
"MaxB" wrote in message
ups.com...
This wonderful phrase is currently being applied to the Circle,
District and H&C non-service. Does anyone know why?

Did they really say that?

Surely it's a tautology. The trains are unavailable because
there is a lack of them.

I think you are confused. There is no lack of trains, but there is a
severe lack of trains that are available for service. The trains are
unavailable because of an alleged safety-related defect. "Lack of
available trains" seems to me to be a perfectly clear non-tautological
phrase.

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Richard J.
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