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I suppose you could pop the door open for a "wild wee" onto the passing track, when youve got to go youve go to go.

With Airports increasing Drop off fees - Bristol is £8.50 for a drop off, of upto 10 minutes and £10.50 for over 10 minutes, with stiff fines and penalties for those who forget to pay via the app/ online, How long will it be before UK Train stations start doing the same?

It wil never happen, its been mooted before and nothing happened. There is even a campaign to Save the monsall trail https://www.cprepdsy.org.uk/news/save-our-monsal-trail/ The route itself is an immensely popular cycle track/walking route which fills nearby car parks with people driving into...

Heres an idea, For a lot of people, such as myself Rail; ravel is impossible without having to drive to a station. To increase rail travel drop the parking fees for rail customers, ie the cost of parking is zero and get rid of those private parking companies that issue tickets and private...

For my commute to and from work, rail is impossible, no stations no lines between home and work. That leaves leisure and other travel - trip to the nearest city centre and maybe supermarkets etc and here in lies another issue: To get to my nearest railway station the only option is to drive...

Maybe they should not have built this bride in the first place if its causing all of these issues

News story about a Level Crossing in the Midlands where drivers frequently get stuck in a queue /jam that blocks the rail line, and presumably holds up trains https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r9089vng5o

From an outsider the whole shift pattern used is off-putting for starters, I've also imaged train cabs to be kitted out to the same level that HGV cabs are, with air con/heating and a few things such as radios as in broadcast radio/in cab audio ( Bluetooth/Spotify etc) to keep drivers...

Most people will have a contactless card, for the very, very few who do not then you can buy - with cash a pre-paid credit card

Cheques, thanks to banking apps on phones, are now a useful method to receive payment, for example i do some sopping for an older relative and in turn they write a cheque I use the banking app and in goes payment, after many years I have also written a few cheques as the person preferred that...

google search shows infrastructure costs ( ie road/rail) in the UK are significantly higher than other European countries

I've often wondered why costs are so staggeringly high and progress is so slow in the UK

East midlands parkway can only be accessed by car, and once there, there is nothing else there apart from the railway station, unless you wanted to walk to Redhill marina and visit the coffee shop - but if you wanted to do that then go a little further down the lane and you can park at the...

Still an absolute scandal price wise, and one of the many things thats wrong with rail travel extortionate parking expensive tickets overly complex tickets no guarantee of a seat/overcrowding multiple ways that you can be fined for mistakes and errors

£8 a day to park is absolutely scandalous for that location, as above you can get the tram park and ride for £5.40 all day , or slightly further in the bus park and ride for £6 a car load or £4 per person ( based on the £2 bus ticket price cap one ticket in, another out) or £5.30 all day bus...