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Licencing reforms & the tube
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Alan OBrien wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message . 244.170... a Tracy Emin reinterpretation of a Hogarth painting. I have _no idea what this means_ and yet i love the description. Anyway - The question is... Will LU reflect this in extending the time of the last trains? It's a bit pointless pubs applying for later licences if people still have to leave at the same time to get home. I suppose people will have to drink in a pub near home. Or catch a night bus. Or cycle. I don't see why the tube should close at night. People will say it is for engineering work to be carried out. Hooey. EW starts at about 1:00am and finishes at about 4:30 or 5:00am - and what is done in those 3-4hrs? As Michael Kenyon showed, very little. The only way to get things done on the track is by line closures. The Central Line closed last year for months - unfortunaltely LUL did not have the money to make use of the time to do large-scale work. But it showed that LUL *can* close a line for a few months and get everything done. I think there are two kinds of maintenance. One is minor, routine stuff, like replacing lost rail clip thingummies and sweeping up train fluff or whatever, and the other is serious engineering. The former is why we have the few-hour overnight closures - it needs to be done often, but doesn't take long. The latter is why we have weekend and multi-week closures. I do wonder if the routine stuff could be done every other night, though; if we could have half the tube lines open each night, that would make a colossal difference. Alternatively, spend some money on getting, say, the Central and Northern lines to the state where they can run all night almost every night (buying extra-strong rail clips and shaving the trains, say), and use those as the backbone of an all-night transport system. I say let three or four lines run all night long, with trains about every 10 minutes. I say that too. tom -- If you tolerate this, your children will be next. |
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Licencing reforms & the tube
Tom Anderson wrote:
Anyway - The question is... Will LU reflect this in extending the time of the last trains? It's a bit pointless pubs applying for later licences if people still have to leave at the same time to get home. I suppose people will have to drink in a pub near home. Or catch a night bus. Or cycle. Without wanting to be a killjoy, it's an offence under section 12 of the Licensing Act 1872 to be drunk in charge of a carriage. A pedal cycle is a carriage for the purposes of this Act. You might also find that you're a bit prone to wobble if you're riding home from the pub. Matt Ashby |
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