Just opened my copy of the Western Gazette (our local weekly here in
Somerset) and found an advertisement from TfL warning about hotspot stations
during the Olympics. How widespread is such advertising?

In message , at 13:47:58 on
Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Graham Harrison
remarked:
Just opened my copy of the Western Gazette (our local weekly here in
Somerset) and found an advertisement from TfL warning about hotspot
stations during the Olympics. How widespread is such advertising?

Ah, the ambiguous hotspots. Virgin wifi, or crowded platforms?

Presumably the latter, and I expect we'll see a lot more of this over
the coming months. The plans, which involve considerable congestion at
various points, also rely on scaring way non-Olympic traffic.
--
Roland Perry

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:41:31 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
Presumably the latter, and I expect we'll see a lot more of this over
the coming months. The plans, which involve considerable congestion at
various points, also rely on scaring way non-Olympic traffic.

Despite what the arrogant buffoons in Locog think most people arn't going to
take 2 weeks off during the olympics nor are they going to work from home or
cycle or walk to work instead of using the tube. So we're going to have
complete chaos on PT and on the roads thanks to the priority lanes. I can't
wait.

B2003

On 29/03/2012 14:47, d wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:41:31 +0100
Roland wrote:
Presumably the latter, and I expect we'll see a lot more of this over
the coming months. The plans, which involve considerable congestion at
various points, also rely on scaring way non-Olympic traffic.

Despite what the arrogant buffoons in Locog think most people arn't going to
take 2 weeks off during the olympics nor are they going to work from home or
cycle or walk to work instead of using the tube. So we're going to have
complete chaos on PT and on the roads thanks to the priority lanes. I can't
wait.

B2003


Actually many people take two weeks off at that time of the year. Rail
traffic drops so much on some lines that they remove some peak hour
restrictions.
It is called holidays...

Jim

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0100
Jim Chisholm wrote:
Actually many people take two weeks off at that time of the year. Rail
traffic drops so much on some lines that they remove some peak hour
restrictions.
It is called holidays...

So the whole of london is going to go away on holiday in the same 2 weeks
as the Olympics? Someone better tell the airports and ferry ports or there'll
be chaos!

Meanwhile back in the real world , unless you're a teacher then you don't
get the option of having the whole of the summer off and most people don't
take 2 week holidays anymore anyway. 1 week is the norm these days.

B2003

On 30/03/2012 09:50, d wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0100
Jim wrote:
Actually many people take two weeks off at that time of the year. Rail
traffic drops so much on some lines that they remove some peak hour
restrictions.
It is called holidays...

So the whole of london is going to go away on holiday in the same 2 weeks
as the Olympics? Someone better tell the airports and ferry ports or there'll
be chaos!

Apparently a significant percentage of the population are leaving the
country during the Olympics so I suspect the airports and ferry ports
already know.


--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

On 30/03/2012 09:50, d wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0100
Jim wrote:
Actually many people take two weeks off at that time of the year. Rail
traffic drops so much on some lines that they remove some peak hour
restrictions.
It is called holidays...

So the whole of london is going to go away on holiday in the same 2 weeks
as the Olympics? Someone better tell the airports and ferry ports or there'll
be chaos!

It's OK the outgoings will be balanced by incoming. And last time I
looked the Olympics lasted nearer three weeks.

Meanwhile back in the real world , unless you're a teacher then you don't
get the option of having the whole of the summer off and most people don't
take 2 week holidays anymore anyway. 1 week is the norm these days.

Really? Perhaps in your strange world but folk with children will have
to take some time off during the summer to fit in with the school
holidays and if you are going any distance it is best to take at least
two weeks off otherwise the travelling time takes a disproportionate
amount out of your holiday.

--
Phil Cook

On Mar 30, 9:50*am, wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0100

Jim Chisholm wrote:
Actually many people take two weeks off at that time of the year. Rail
traffic drops so much on some lines that they remove some peak hour
restrictions.
It is called holidays...

So the whole of london is going to go away on holiday in the same 2 weeks
as the Olympics? Someone better tell the airports and ferry ports or there'll
be chaos!

Meanwhile back in the real world , unless you're a teacher then you don't
get the option of having the whole of the summer off and most people don't
take 2 week holidays anymore anyway. 1 week is the norm these days.

B2003

When I started teaching secondary school in the 1970s (considered the
halcyon days), I got six weeks off in July and August (and you needed
it!). Before I retired in 2010, I considered myself lucky if I managed
about three weeks from the university where I worked in the same
period (and part of that involved research trips).

Dr. Barry Worthington

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:47:49 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

Despite what the arrogant buffoons in Locog think most people
arn't going to take 2 weeks off during the olympics nor are they
going to work from home or cycle or walk to work instead of using
the tube. So we're going to have complete chaos on PT and on the
roads thanks to the priority lanes. I can't wait.

Of course this is of no interest to most of the population living
outside the M25.

In message , at 13:44:50 on
Sat, 28 Apr 2012, remarked:
Just opened my copy of the Western Gazette (our local weekly here in
Somerset) and found an advertisement from TfL warning about hotspot stations
during the Olympics. How widespread is such advertising?

On the M27 Motorway yesterday the information signs were displaying a
message advising people to plan their journeys to the Olympics.

I saw a billboard in Nottingham this morning.
--
Roland Perry