"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2014 12:32, tim..... wrote:


"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On 30/04/2014 18:02, tim..... wrote:

[central London to Heathrow during Tube strike]

I've got to do the reverse next week.

LHR to Vic after 10pm [1] to arrive for my last train at midnight.

I really need to know what this last train at 11:00, but outbound from
Central London at 9:30 claim, means.

That would mean last inbound at 9:00 on most lines, how is that 11:00?

Of course my luck will depend upon whether HEx is running or not.
There's a perfectly usable HR connect at 10:29 which gives me an hour
to
get from Padd to Vic on the bus. But if they are on strike again as
well [2] I'm kind of stuck unless my flights dead early and there isn't
a scrum at immigration so I can bus to Feltham.

HEx workers are not on strike next week.

Is that actually certain, or is it just they that haven't yet announced
that they will (though I guess it's now too late to do so)

Needs seven days notice.


Anyone know how the taxis are running. Many other countries would
organise "official" sharing in these circumstances, but I bet the
"brothers" aren't keen on that and are just taking the opportunity to
rake it in!

Taxi marshalling will be in operation, as is usual when there's a Tube
strike. See:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2014/april/tfl-sets-out-plans-to-keep-capital-moving-during-strikes


Only at Main line stations

In other countries, would organised marshalling/sharing be much more
widespread?

My only experience is in Scandinavia

and yes, that is exactly what they would do.

And I'm not talking about the cab rank at Vic putting together pax for KX,
pax for Padd etc.

I'm talking about at the airport putting together pax for Reading, pax for
Woking, pax for Watford etc. This would be routine, not something special
because of a rail strike. As yet I have no indication that this might be
done at LHR last week.

There must be an awful lot of people who wouldn't dream of paying 100 quid
for a journey like this in a cab, but would happily split it 4 ways, though
whether, as a percentage this number is significant when compared with the
number of OPMs who just catch a cab on their own because it doesn't matter
to them, I have no idea.

tim

In message , at 15:16:37 on Thu, 1 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
I'm talking about at the airport putting together pax for Reading, pax
for Woking, pax for Watford etc. This would be routine, not something
special because of a rail strike.

When I was in Atlanta 30 years ago attending trade fairs, the people
policing the taxi rank (don't get me started on the multiple overlapping
'police' forces there) would only let attendees departing at the end of
the afternoon catch a cab if they were prepared to share it to a
destination (which could be the other side of the city).

What was surprising was how many of those attendees who had spent the
entire day being nice to one another thought this an impossibly
uncomfortable request. Another thing I learnt at the time was to never
get a cab whose driver's window was open, because that meant their
aircon had packed up.

As yet I have no indication that this might be done at LHR last week.

Just because you don't know doesn't mean it's not happening.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 15:16:37 on Thu, 1 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
I'm talking about at the airport putting together pax for Reading, pax for
Woking, pax for Watford etc. This would be routine, not something special
because of a rail strike.

When I was in Atlanta 30 years ago attending trade fairs, the people
policing the taxi rank (don't get me started on the multiple overlapping
'police' forces there) would only let attendees departing at the end of
the afternoon catch a cab if they were prepared to share it to a
destination (which could be the other side of the city).

What was surprising was how many of those attendees who had spent the
entire day being nice to one another thought this an impossibly
uncomfortable request. Another thing I learnt at the time was to never get
a cab whose driver's window was open, because that meant their aircon had
packed up.

As yet I have no indication that this might be done at LHR last week.

Just because you don't know doesn't mean it's not happening.

I know, I am trying to find out if it was.

tim