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Jubilee line this weekend
The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it
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The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it really worth having it open? As a route to the O2, it probably is. |
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:07 -0000
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote: wrote: The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it really worth having it open? Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting East London to South London without the need to go through the centre. Not sure if its been mentioned already , but did anyone see that Inside Out program the other day which compared the idiotic closures of lines for maintenance against the regime in Paris where they were converting an entire line to automatic operation without disrupting the service at all? Everything was done at night. They compared the can-do attitude of the people there with the standard issue whinging and moaning of the people from Tubelines. Sometimes its embarrasing to be British. B2003 |
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:07 -0000 "Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote: wrote: The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it really worth having it open? Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting East London to South London without the need to go through the centre. Not sure if its been mentioned already , but did anyone see that Inside Out program the other day which compared the idiotic closures of lines for maintenance against the regime in Paris where they were converting an entire line to automatic operation without disrupting the service at all? Everything was done at night. They compared the can-do attitude of the people there with the standard issue whinging and moaning of the people from Tubelines. Sometimes its embarrasing to be British. Tune Lines -- the truly "British" company, wholly owned by Ferrovial and Bechtel. |
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On Oct 29, 11:51*am, wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:07 -0000 "Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote: wrote: The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it really worth having it open? Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting East London to South London without the need to go through the centre. Not sure if its been mentioned already , but did anyone see that Inside Out program the other day which compared the idiotic closures of lines for maintenance against the regime in Paris where they were converting an entire line to automatic operation without disrupting the service at all? Everything was done at night. They compared the can-do attitude of the people there with the standard issue whinging and moaning of the people from Tubelines. Sometimes its embarrasing to be British. e.g. when our media lie that public transport quality / worker morale / can-do-ism is lower here than in bleedin' France. -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:19:04 -0800 (PST)
John B wrote: Not sure if its been mentioned already , but did anyone see that Inside O= ut program the other day which compared the idiotic closures of lines for maintenance against the regime in Paris where they were converting an entire line to automatic operation without disrupting the service at all? Everything was done at night. They compared the can-do attitude of the people there with the standard issue whinging and moaning of the people from Tubelines. Sometimes its embarrasing to be British. e.g. when our media lie that public transport quality / worker morale / can-do-ism is lower here than in bleedin' France. I guess they made up the fact that they did all the work at night did they? B2003 |
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On Nov 9, 3:35*pm, wrote:
Not sure if its been mentioned already , but did anyone see that Inside O= ut program the other day which compared the idiotic closures of lines for maintenance against the regime in Paris where they were converting an entire line to automatic operation without disrupting the service at all? Everything was done at night. They compared the can-do attitude of the people there with the standard issue whinging and moaning of the people from Tubelines. Sometimes its embarrasing to be British. e.g. when our media lie that public transport quality / worker morale / can-do-ism is lower here than in bleedin' France. I guess they made up the fact that they did all the work at night did they? Err, no. That just shows that RATP is willing to allow engineering works to take longer and cost more in exchange for avoiding blockades, whereas TfL and TL view their core priority as delivering the weekday peak-hour service and so prioritise the delivery of upgrades as rapidly as possible, even when that involves shifting people onto buses, boats and probably cars a bit at the weekend. -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message ... wrote: The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it really worth having it open? Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting East London to South London without the need to go through the centre. Doesn't the DLR do that? Kevin |
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On 8 Nov, 20:12, "Zen83237" wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message ... wrote: The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is it really worth having it open? Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting East London to South London without the need to go through the centre. Doesn't the DLR do that? Kevin Not very often these days. But anyway, it's not so much the Isle of Dogs as the Greenwich Peninsula. |
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