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Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
Keith J Chesworth wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:06:34 +0000 (UTC), "Cast_Iron" wrote: Roland Perry wrote: In message , Matt Ashby writes WHY would you want to convince someone that being in a car is better than being on public transport, when it's slower, causes more problems for other people and does more damage to the environment? Because you regularly need to get home after the last train? (And that's just *one* example). Out of all the people who travel into, out of, within or through central London what percentage need to travel after the last train has left? Besides the revellers, quite a small army of Maintainance and service ppl, from Cleaners, security, to Engineers. Excepting the revellers, they will all need to carry tools and other equipment so will have a "legitimate" reason for driving. But it still doesn't answer the question regarding what percentage need to travel after the last train has left? |
Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North
wrote: For a long story not worth going into I am currently trying to prove for a client the benefits of using a private car/taxi over public transport. If the story is not worth going into, nor is the answer! Are you by any chance a used car dealer? I am intrested in anyone who lives in London (or any other major city/Town in the UK or rest of the world) who has access to good public transport such as buses, trams, trains, underground, other LTR but still drives to their place of work. Any views, opionions outright rants agasint public transport inculding the obvious overcrowding, dirty trains, expense would be appericated. The best reason I've heard was the fake ad on Smack The Pony: Cars - so much bigger than your average handbag! Unfortunely spamming and a general distrust agasint anyone asking for personal details on the internet stops me for being e-mailed directly. Try writing out your email address and ROT13ing it. So just post here. Although if you really are anti-public transport I would like to hear from you and will give you an accessible e-mail address. My sister drives everywhere, claiming that buses and trains are too noisy! -- Aidan Stanger fgnat_n ng vuht qbgpbz qbg nh |
Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
In message , Cast_Iron
writes But it still doesn't answer the question regarding what percentage need to travel after the last train has left? The question you should really ask is: how many need to travel occasionally after the last train has left. Because being forced to find a different way home, for those occasions (eg a car), leaves you more likely to consider using the car at all times. In my own case, the unreliability of WAGN after Hatfield caused me to reconsider travelling by train, and to buy a new car and drive to work every day (not just the days I couldn't afford to be late), because once I had the car I might as well use it (being half an hour quicker than the train, even when the train was running perfectly). -- Roland Perry |
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Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:14:30 +0000 (UTC), "Cast_Iron"
wrote: Keith J Chesworth wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:06:34 +0000 (UTC), "Cast_Iron" wrote: Roland Perry wrote: In message , Matt Ashby writes WHY would you want to convince someone that being in a car is better than being on public transport, when it's slower, causes more problems for other people and does more damage to the environment? Because you regularly need to get home after the last train? (And that's just *one* example). Out of all the people who travel into, out of, within or through central London what percentage need to travel after the last train has left? Besides the revellers, quite a small army of Maintainance and service ppl, from Cleaners, security, to Engineers. Excepting the revellers, they will all need to carry tools and other equipment so will have a "legitimate" reason for driving. But it still doesn't answer the question regarding what percentage need to travel after the last train has left? Not the fixed base ones I am thinking about. Keiths www.unseenlondon.co.uk www.blackpooltram.co.uk www.happysnapper.com www.boilerbill.com - main site www.amerseyferry.co.uk |
Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
It's been quite a while since I regularly used the tube, but one thing
not to my taste was buskers in the carriages. There were two in particular: the first was a scruffy yob with a crap guitar who plagued the Piccadilly line from Heathrow - the incoming tourists loved him "Gee so this is London's cool music scene"; the second was a travelling band of Peruvian (?) players in national dress, complete with drums and panpipes, who used the District line in the central area, and were quite intrusive when pasing the hat round at the end. The right place for buskers is at the end of the escalators or in the interchange areas (not platforms) where you are free to give them something or not, and are not forced to listen to them for long. ISTR LUL now has some sort of "Approved Busker" scheme of this nature, but do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? |
Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
Robert Eves wrote:
(snip) do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? I have only experienced this on one occasion in London (it's much more common on the Paris Metro). You are more likely, in my experience, to encounter beggars, sometimes a woman carrying a child, on tube trains, though even these are uncommon. -- John Ray, London UK. Mail to mefp49 is unlikely to be read. I can be contacted at xcf70 (same ISP). |
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In article , Robert Eves wrote:
do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? Yes, especially on the District Line for some reason. I regularly take it from East Putney to the City, and I often come across two scruffy blokes with a guitar and a pair of bongos, who regail the passengers to such home-grown classics as "You Can't Have A Shave In A Toilet". I turn up my Minidisc and ignore them as best I can. I like to be left in peace and quiet when travelling. -- | grendel [at] durge [dot] org | web technologist | london, uk | "It's people like you what cause unrest" |
Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
"Henry" wrote in message ...
Crawley A "guided bus" system called Fastway is currently under construction. It has been causing chaos for about two years already and is far from finished, and is costing a fortune. The route is already running, and is (and will be) serving only a small part of the town. The rest of the bus system is in decay - old uncomfotable buses. As a result of the introduction, other services in the area are being curtailed, meaning that busy routes which were direct now have to been done with changing. Not a great incentive to use public transport. The money would have been far better spent providing a modern, efficient system for the whole town. As someone who use to live in the Crawley area. The only good think about Crawley buses was the Metrobus (the dark blue buses whatever they were called) under female driver who use to wear a Metrobus issued short skirt. If all bus drivers were like this maybe congestion would fall. |
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