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"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 15:18:00 on Thu, 26 Sep 2019, tim... remarked: Sep 2019, MissRiaElaine remarked: There are some 24-hour buses to Heathrow, such as the 140. Sure, but can all the staff cram onto that one route? I wonder if there are staff buses that operate overnight? And do either go where the staff actually live..? When I was a bus driver in the Birmingham area in the late 90's/early 00's, we had a few staff buses which picked up drivers on the stupid- o'clock starts, but they only went a limited distance from the garage (5 miles or so I think) and I lived 7 miles away. So it was drive or not work. The company had the attitude that it was your responsibility to get to work and if you couldn't for whatever reason, tough, find another job... It's a bit more difficult to have that attitude at a place like Heathrow. I think their solution is to provide ample staff car parking, it's not as if they don't have the room. but they do have a mandate to lessen car arrivals at the airport I doubt that staff travel is exempted from that requirement Which is precisely why Heathrow Connect exists[1]. It's not a back-door into Heathrow for skinflint passengers, it's for staff. Nonsense it's for people who live on the line [1] to have a service direct to LHR without having to go to Paddington and back Staff or customers (or just people changing transport mode) tim [1] or even live on a line where a change to underground at Ealing makes sense |
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In message , at 10:21:22 on Wed, 2 Oct 2019,
tim... remarked: "Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 15:18:00 on Thu, 26 Sep 2019, tim... remarked: Sep 2019, MissRiaElaine remarked: There are some 24-hour buses to Heathrow, such as the 140. Sure, but can all the staff cram onto that one route? I wonder if there are staff buses that operate overnight? And do either go where the staff actually live..? When I was a bus driver in the Birmingham area in the late 90's/early 00's, we had a few staff buses which picked up drivers on the stupid- o'clock starts, but they only went a limited distance from the garage (5 miles or so I think) and I lived 7 miles away. So it was drive or not work. The company had the attitude that it was your responsibility to get to work and if you couldn't for whatever reason, tough, find another job... It's a bit more difficult to have that attitude at a place like Heathrow. I think their solution is to provide ample staff car parking, it's not as if they don't have the room. but they do have a mandate to lessen car arrivals at the airport I doubt that staff travel is exempted from that requirement Which is precisely why Heathrow Connect exists[1]. It's not a back-door into Heathrow for skinflint passengers, it's for staff. Nonsense it's for people who live on the line [1] to have a service direct to LHR without having to go to Paddington and back That's the secondary purpose, but isn't really a "back door" because the "front door" of a train to Paddington and HEx back is bonkers. Staff or customers (or just people changing transport mode) tim [1] or even live on a line where a change to underground at Ealing makes sense -- Roland Perry |
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