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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 8:34:03 GMT
So Paris is hosting the climate change conference , and as a result of this, plus the heightened security, there are lots of road closures.
To help Parisians and visitors get around, all public transport on Ratp / Stif network was free on the Sunday 29th and Monday 30th. Included Metro services.
very impressed, I visited Paris on the Sunday and used a few of the bus services.
Maybe an idea that London could use , for instance on days like the Ride London events when many parts of SW London have no bus service , just so some cyclists can charge around
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Post by snoggle on Dec 1, 2015 10:08:08 GMT
So Paris is hosting the climate change conference , and as a result of this, plus the heightened security, there are lots of road closures. To help Parisians and visitors get around, all public transport on Ratp / Stif network was free on the Sunday 29th and Monday 30th. Included Metro services. very impressed, I visited Paris on the Sunday and used a few of the bus services. Maybe an idea that London could use , for instance on days like the Ride London events when many parts of SW London have no bus service , just so some cyclists can charge around Unfortunately for us we have a declining (to zero) level of subsidy and a short term investment plan. Paris has a 30 year funded investment programme across all modes and believes in subsidising its transport network and in employers part funding employees season tickets. What Paris does is a world away from London. They also make public transport free when there are chronic air quality problems when the weather causes a build up of poisonous gases rather than blowing them away. Several politicians have asked the Mayor to adopt the same strategy in London - he won't do it. It is now impossible, in my view, for any future Mayor not to put fares up by at least inflation every single year. They have no financial scope to freeze or cut fares. I note that the Labour candidate poo pooed this on Sunday Politics London. He said he wasn't changing his policies despite the Chancellor's decision. He seems to stupidly believe "efficiencies" can fill a several hundred million pound a year financial hole that his policies would create. He's going to have real problems explaining his way out of that particular issue come the real campaign next year.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 14:55:20 GMT
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Post by snoggle on Nov 8, 2016 15:02:19 GMT
RATP plans to convert their entire bus network to zero emission within a few years. A very, very ambitious plan but they have the benefit of strong political support and the funding to match (as things stand today). They are also still building tram and orbital rail lines, extending their Metro and RER networks as well as continuing to expand the bus network. Meanwhile we haven't got a clue what we're doing here as we wait for the Autumn Statement and whatever the Mayor can cobble together off the back of it. It is very noteworthy that nothing has been said about fares nor investment plans in recent weeks and the future of South Eastern is shrouded in a deathly silence. Now it either all pours forth in a co-ordinated set of announcements come the Autumn Statement or something's adrift somewhere.
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Post by twobellstogo on Nov 8, 2016 23:08:03 GMT
RATP plans to convert their entire bus network to zero emission within a few years. A very, very ambitious plan but they have the benefit of strong political support and the funding to match (as things stand today). They are also still building tram and orbital rail lines, extending their Metro and RER networks as well as continuing to expand the bus network. Meanwhile we haven't got a clue what we're doing here as we wait for the Autumn Statement and whatever the Mayor can cobble together off the back of it. It is very noteworthy that nothing has been said about fares nor investment plans in recent weeks and the future of South Eastern is shrouded in a deathly silence. Now it either all pours forth in a co-ordinated set of announcements come the Autumn Statement or something's adrift somewhere. Apart from a vandalism problem on the RER and metro which dwarfs London's (but not some other areas of continental Europe), a really quite chronic fare evasion issue, buses that are technologically advanced but really not terribly pleasant to travel in and (at least for me), a feeling of being rather unsafe on the outer parts of certain RER lines (northern bits of B and D, the Evry section of D and the inner eastern parts of E around Noisy and Rosny in particular), the RATP have really quite a laudable transport system, and ambitious plans that TfL could rightly learn from. I think the difference is RATP have a long term plan that will be carried out in all likelihood, TfL largely have dreams that may be carried out if the stars align in the right direction. But given the choice of a typical RATP bus and a TfL one, then the red team wins.
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