Why is that the this is always presented as a balance between:

People out on the town late on Friday/Saturday night

vs.

People who start work early on Saturday/Sunday morning

What about the large number of people who finish work between 12:30am
and 1:30am? Most restaurant workers, many workers in
theatres/cinemas/bars? Why do they never come in to the equation?

Jase

Kat wrote:
Dave Liney wrote:

"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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wrote:

Considering the inebriated state of some people at 1am you might not
want
them trying to decend escalators and then minding the gap to board
the tube.
They may also struggle to get from the kerb on to a bus but at least
they'll
do themselves less damage if they miss there.

Speaking from the sharp end (as it were) I think later running is a
terrible idea. We cope with enough drunks on a Friday and Saturday
night
as it is.
We'll have even more kids jumping the barriers while people with
valid
tickets who just want to get to work on time the following morning,
will
be penalised.
Even now, Sunday mornings, with our first westbound Central Line
train
not arriving until 07.15 when the station opens just after 06.25
isn't
much fun either.
--
Kat

wrote in message
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Why is that the this is always presented as a balance between:

People out on the town late on Friday/Saturday night

vs.

People who start work early on Saturday/Sunday morning

What about the large number of people who finish work between 12:30am
and 1:30am? Most restaurant workers, many workers in
theatres/cinemas/bars? Why do they never come in to the equation?


This is a very good point - these are workers too after all, probably just
as badly paid and with options that are just as limited as the people who
make the journey to work first thing in the morning.

If the number of workers is about the same, surely the side-effect of
ferrying the hordes of revellers home efficiently is an argument in favour
of later running?

xx j

wrote in
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What about the large number of people who finish work between 12:30am
and 1:30am? Most restaurant workers, many workers in
theatres/cinemas/bars? Why do they never come in to the equation?

Jase


I suspect many will simply find themselves working an extra hour and still
miss their last tubes home....

David