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Post by towerman on May 7, 2024 11:49:29 GMT
The article didn’t say,although the council spokesman was a bit puzzled why one bid gets approved and one turned down.
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Post by towerman on May 6, 2024 22:59:34 GMT
The government has turned down a request from North Northamptonshire Council for a grant to purchase electric vehicles for route X4 Northampton-Peterborough via Wellingborough,Kettering and Corby,even though they agreed to an application from West Northamptonshire Council for 51 electric vehicles for local routes in Northampton.
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Post by towerman on Apr 30, 2024 17:17:23 GMT
At the time of privatisation British Rail was one of the most efficient rail systems in Europe and required less subsidy than the privatised mess we have now. I don't recall British Rail and the word efficient appearing in the same sentence very often, the subsidy is because of higher fares compared to the rest of Europe. They had the smallest subsidy of any major rail network in Europe.
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Post by towerman on Apr 29, 2024 21:14:00 GMT
The few successes of privatisation such as Chiltern Trains have been completely overshadowed by failure of the other franchises. So essentially rail franchises get handsome subsidies much more than the old British Rail, these franchises are normally foreign owned. When there are problems the rail operating companies blame Network Rail and vice versa. Once boarded a trains they are slow with so much headway build in, to minimise compensation claims and to make performance figures look good for the private companies. Avanti has been mentioned on this thread, which have at chronic cancellations due to shortage of train crews, but still they pay their head a bonus, which is a systematic failure of this country where we reward failure. So with record subsidies and a lot more passengers carried, they still cannot provide a decent service. Essentially it has always been socialism to support capitalism, as the same way the PFI contracts were. So this is a great announcement by Labour and I hope with a Labour Mayor re-elected this week that TFL will take over services in London under the London Overground brand. Does no-one really remember how bad things were in nationalised British Rail days? At the time of privatisation British Rail was one of the most efficient rail systems in Europe and required less subsidy than the privatised mess we have now.
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Post by towerman on Apr 28, 2024 21:16:59 GMT
Is it Thames water doing the digging or contractors?Round here with Anglia Water it’s Clancy Dowcra doing the digging for them.
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Post by towerman on Apr 15, 2024 21:26:53 GMT
When they got agreement with the unions a few years ago to recruit T/Ops off the street there was a 65% failure rate.
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Post by towerman on Apr 14, 2024 11:33:48 GMT
Can remember a time when the 210 went as far east as Leytonstone and was operated out of T with RFs.
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Post by towerman on Apr 5, 2024 17:00:13 GMT
Why don’t Stagecoach use E as a final letter on their regs?Noticed they don’t have them on their regs in Northants.
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Post by towerman on Apr 1, 2024 17:18:36 GMT
Train crew haven’t worked overtime for years,would think it was agreed with unions,other grades I think they can’t work more than twelve shifts in a fortnight.
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Post by towerman on Mar 28, 2024 18:12:50 GMT
If I remember rightly you paid tax on every adult in the house.
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Post by towerman on Mar 11, 2024 23:04:42 GMT
Back on channel 5 next Sunday 8pm.
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Post by towerman on Mar 2, 2024 12:00:15 GMT
I'm sure it's being worked on and will be sorted out in due course. Put it like this. Is the service running today. It is. Can people use this bus to get to their destinations. They can. Now if it was a case that no buses turned up today despite it being the start date then we'd have a major problem. But the blinds issue. That should hopefully be nipped in the bud soon enough The problem is that the bud shouldn’t have grown in the first place. A bus is a bus argument shouldn’t be used on the first day of a brand new service where publicity is key so that people know where the bus is going. Arriva themselves managed it perfectly fine on the SL1 and they knew the SL2 was coming for months so what happened here? A good portion of taxpayers and fare payers money is being injected into this and there should be more than half blinded buses and buses with paper in the window. When they reorganised the buses in Walthamstow when the Victoria Line opened,every household in the area got a leaflet through the door with al the changes and it was still chaos fo the first couple of weeks.
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Post by towerman on Feb 24, 2024 12:49:42 GMT
Apparently they’re running the Boxing Day timetable this weekend with revised TTN 99/24 starting Monday.
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Post by towerman on Feb 19, 2024 22:22:39 GMT
Irthlingborough will be part of the Wellingborough constituency at the general election.
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Post by towerman on Feb 18, 2024 18:10:39 GMT
The original garages were given single letter codes that didn't have any relevance to the area eg:A=Sutton.However ex trolley bus depots did have codes relevant to it’s area eg:LB=Lea Bridge & IF=Ilford.
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