We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a surprise
- the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in the burbs. Fantastic.
Good to know the people running public transport really have the public
interest at heart.

And have the fares gone up yet too? Wouldn't surprise me.

B2003

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:
We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a surprise
- the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in the burbs. Fantastic.
Good to know the people running public transport really have the public
interest at heart.


Why would it be in "the public interest" to run trains at more
frequent intervals when there is insufficient demand to justify them?

So who should pay for these unnecessary additional trains? Council
tax payers in London? Taxpayers around the UK?

Everyone except you, presumably. ;-)

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:12:02 +0000
Bruce wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:
We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a surprise
- the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in the burbs. Fantastic.
Good to know the people running public transport really have the public
interest at heart.


Why would it be in "the public interest" to run trains at more
frequent intervals when there is insufficient demand to justify them?

So 250,000 people turning up for the new years day parade is insufficient
demand? Who knows how many would have gone if the tube service had been
better.

So who should pay for these unnecessary additional trains? Council
tax payers in London? Taxpayers around the UK?

And there was me thinking thats what the fares are for.

B2003

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:47:00 +0000
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:08:01 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

So 250,000 people turning up for the new years day parade is insufficient
demand? Who knows how many would have gone if the tube service had been
better.

Apparently another 250,000 people made it. I assume they walked ;-)

Was it half a mil? Guess LBC got it wrong.

Anyway , that just makes my point even more valid.

B2003

d wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:47:00 +0000
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:08:01 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

So 250,000 people turning up for the new years day parade is
insufficient demand? Who knows how many would have gone if the tube
service had been better.

Apparently another 250,000 people made it. I assume they walked ;-)

Was it half a mil? Guess LBC got it wrong.

Anyway , that just makes my point even more valid.

I'd be surprised if LUL have enough drivers to run a more frequent service
than they did.

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Was it half a mil? Guess LBC got it wrong.

Anyway , that just makes my point even more valid.

I'd be surprised if LUL have enough drivers to run a more frequent service
than they did.

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(Basil Jet) wrote:

d wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:47:00 +0000
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:08:01 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

So 250,000 people turning up for the new years day parade is
insufficient demand? Who knows how many would have gone if the tube
service had been better.

Apparently another 250,000 people made it. I assume they walked ;-)

Was it half a mil? Guess LBC got it wrong.

Anyway , that just makes my point even more valid.

I'd be surprised if LUL have enough drivers to run a more frequent
service than they did.

Presumably New Year's Day is a bigger example of the LM/FCC drivers not
wanting to work on days they don't have to?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

We wanted to go up to the new years day parade today - but oh what a
surprise - the tube is doing a 1 train every half hour service in the
burbs. Fantastic. Good to know the people running public transport
really have the public interest at heart.

This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency from
around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:

This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency from
around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.


Tubes were free, I thought? National Rail wasn't, owing to TfL not
paying for it, although I'm sure a lot of non-payment went on. Some
routes were apparently offering free services, but the information, as
is traditional nowadays with London transport services, was
contradictory and hard to come by.

Tom

"Tom Barry" wrote in message
...
wrote:

This is no different from last year. Services increase in frequency from
around 1100 or so.

What was different was no free tube travel last night, just buses and
trams, I gather.


Tubes were free, I thought? National Rail wasn't, owing to TfL not paying
for it,

In past years, free travel has been sponsored.

Did they not have a sponsor for yesterday?

tim