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"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On 2 Feb, 05:05, Epicentre wrote:

I'm fairly certain it happened in 1979 when I had to walk back from
Camden
Town to Stoke Newington one evening


Still suspended, though roads in London are perfectly passable. The
effect of this has been the closure of an awful lot of places (shops
in stations and the likes) normally staffed by lower-paid workers who
would most likely go to work by bus. The Tube is also operating very
little, probably due to staffing issues caused by same.

It's very poorly thought-out - they should really have looked at
operating what was OK rather than just cutting everything.

Neil

According to Howard Collins, COO of London Transport, buses were taken off
last night on the advice of the Met. Police (interview on LBC news)

The police do tend to give "odd" advice sometimes viz-a-viz transport
though.

When Midland Metro first opened, with a station next to the Hawthorns
(West Bromwich Albion ground), the police initially allowed only 12
people onto the metro platform at any one time after matches for safety
reasons!

Now given that one of the main reasons for rail-transport is to shift
crowds.......
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