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    Merseyrail enforcement officers.

    Google location history lets you edit it.
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    Crossrail - operating discussion and opening day 24th May

    vs increase the chance disabled people are unable to make the journey's they need to?
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    Crossrail - operating discussion and opening day 24th May

    ^ this, the UK's rail network isn't exactly good at maintaining accessibility, so lets not ruin it.
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    I am being threatened with court over a Trainline ticket dispute.

    Buying online Vs buying in person with apple and Google pay are two different processes.
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    Contactless payment on Nottingham Express Transit

    NET have an interesting approach to this issue, They can see if you tapped in with contactless or not, as (unsure if NCT do it) NET contactless will accept it offline (similar to TFL and ticketer), then immediatly in the background trigger an auth hold for either £2.50 or £0.10, it's so quick...
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Completely agree with you there with the caveat of ensuring there is level access for wheelchair users.
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Whilst my particular reasons for likely being unable to use a crossing phone aren't exactly common there's a fair few disabilities where someone wouldn't.
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Whilst I personally don't drive (nor do I think it's a good idea), it is an fairly common trend what you noticed, if you don't speak people treat you as incompetent either knowingly or not, it is something I've had a few times even by some rail staff. On the latter point yes, I'm very...
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Yep your probably right after googling pretty sure I'm thinking off the station crossing at Melton, was a bit distracted by an issue with the TM to pay enough attention to notice it wasn't for public to use by themselves.
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Just a hypothetical after noticing a sign at the end of a station on the mentioned route say it phone to get permission to cross.
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Where that's the case I could always do a relay call (I type/hear, a BT operator voices)
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    It does text to speech, but TTS voices can sometimes be hard to hear and from what I hear railway phones aren't always the best audio quality.
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    Level crossing Phone to cross but can't speak!

    Hi all, I'm a semi/mostly non-speaking autistic who uses a tablet to speak most of the time when out now (think loss voice guy but different reasons). On the 06:08 NOT-PBO on Saturday I passed a station with a notice saying you MUST phone the signaller to get permission to cross and that got...
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