On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:22:26 -0000, Stephen wrote:

I'd also extend the 262 back up to Walthamstow as I'm told it used to go.

Indeed it did (c. 1980) Where does it go now, then?
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Stephen wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 6 Mar 2005:

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:47:20 +0000, Clive Coleman clive@yewbank.
demon.co.uk wrote:
Streatham Ice Rink? I used to go skating there in my late teens, one
of the best ice surfaces in the country. Circa 1968.

LOL! You've not been there lately then?! The sooner TESCO build the
new rink so they can demolish that dump the better.

Another hurdle towards that very goal passed last week! But it will
still be 18 months to two years before we see anything happen..... and
it will be sad to say "Goodbye" to the beautiful old building which
holds so many happy memories (incidentally, they are buying a new
Zamboni - ice smoothing machine - so it should be better within the next
few weeks).
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Website updated 4 March 2005 with a new photo

John Rowland wrote:
"Rupert Candy" wrote in message
oups.com...

Streatham has 3 separate NR stations, but they are all
served by different lines with roughly 4tph frequency on each
(and no way of travelling between the 3 by train!)

Brixton's already got the tube, it's the areas slightly
further south that are lacking in decent transport!

Hope that makes sense.

No! Many parts of London would kill for the rail network Streatham
has.

Really? Which ones? Apart from Hackney, I can't really think of any...

In message , Mrs Redboots
writes
Stephen wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 6 Mar 2005:

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:47:20 +0000, Clive Coleman clive@yewbank.
demon.co.uk wrote:
Streatham Ice Rink? I used to go skating there in my late teens, one
of the best ice surfaces in the country. Circa 1968.

LOL! You've not been there lately then?! The sooner TESCO build the
new rink so they can demolish that dump the better.

Another hurdle towards that very goal passed last week! But it will
still be 18 months to two years before we see anything happen..... and
it will be sad to say "Goodbye" to the beautiful old building which
holds so many happy memories (incidentally, they are buying a new
Zamboni - ice smoothing machine - so it should be better within the next
few weeks).
You've got to remember that my use of the place was getting on for forty
years ago, which I compared with ice rinks all around the country as I
used to travel around on free passes and tried rinks in all different
parts of the country, it most probably is crap by now especially
considering how old it is.
--
Clive Coleman

Clive Coleman wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 7 Mar 2005:

.
You've got to remember that my use of the place was getting on for
forty years ago, which I compared with ice rinks all around the country
as I used to travel around on free passes and tried rinks in all different
parts of the country, it most probably is crap by now especially
considering how old it is.

It's not as crap as all that. Come and try it sometime!
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Website updated 4 March 2005 with a new photo

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:44:25 +0000, Steve Fitzgerald ]
wrote:

In message opsm8f7or2wn44ge@stephen, Stephen
writes
Stagecoach, brewery, p***-up spring to mind.

Why does everybody insist on blaming the operating companies when they
are just contractors to TfL?

It's TfL who are the ones who set these things.

To be fair the operational risk is with the operator. The OP was
complaining about the fact that route 15s didn't turn up relative to
other routes - I would put that down to Stagecoach.

The comment about improving the timetable or extending the 115 was a
proposed solution to the fact that he had waited too long for a bus. I
have to say that I don't understand the TfL logic of running the 23
every 4-5 minutes and yet the 15 is only half as frequent when in the
olden days they were effectively the same route.
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Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

London Buses are now seeking planners:


ref TFL388/389 on their website.


Rob.
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On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:53:48 +0000, Robert Woolley
wrote:

London Buses are now seeking planners:


ref TFL388/389 on their website.

I could either of those jobs standing on my head but they'd never employ
me!
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Admits to working for London Underground!

In message , Paul Corfield
writes

London Buses are now seeking planners:


ref TFL388/389 on their website.

I could either of those jobs standing on my head but they'd never employ
me!

Couldn't afford you :-)
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On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:01:19 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:53:48 +0000, Robert Woolley

London Buses are now seeking planners:
ref TFL388/389 on their website.

I could do either of those jobs standing on my head but they'd never
employ me!

Perhaps you'd stand more chance if you didn't advertise the fact you
want to stand on your head while working...

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