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Tetchytyke's latest activity
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..I'm not disparaging Glider, I really enjoyed using it when I was over in Belfast recently. They are nice pieces of kit. The bus... -
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread XC new First Class menu.Worse for delivering hot food, though: the Arriva units have the galley equipment behind the cab, which is much easier. XC give and...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread West Yorkshire bus franchising.The moderngov website is geoblocked so I can't read what any of the reports say. But I note that Wakefield (depot or bus station- the...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..They do, but "student accommodation" is more than the halls of residence- there are a lot of students in Chorlton and Didsbury. Glider...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..Not really. There are two main flows: town <-> university and university <-> student accommodation. There really isn't very much...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread TransPennine Express checking the appetite for charging for seat reservations?.You shouldn't have Advance tickets for York to Newcastle? Interesting idea. 1786612673 How do you do that with ranger tickets or...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Using multiple tickets for one journey should be banned, with passengers forced to exit the train at the split point.In my experience, split ticketing tends to be more useful (and generate larger savings) with walk-up tickets. XC is the perfect example...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Natural phenomenon you have witnessed?.That’s really annoying. Here on the west coast of the Isle of Man we had some very high cirrus clouds which actually were more of a...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread TransPennine Express checking the appetite for charging for seat reservations?.It wasn’t that perverse as the behaviour they were trying to discourage was the reserving of seats on multiple trains. An advance...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread TransPennine Express checking the appetite for charging for seat reservations?.The front three carriages are furthest away from the barriers at Manchester Airport station, so it’s not a surprise. 1786486072 Making...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Loganair.They announced the end of the Dundee route months ago. It is a PSO route and the amount they were getting wasn't worth it...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread TransPennine Express checking the appetite for charging for seat reservations?.Right now, there's no incentive to game the assistance system and so people generally don't do it. If you start charging for...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..I've not experienced a TfL bus revenue check for many many years now. But I did experience them fairly frequently on the 73 back in the...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.This is definitely a massive issue and one that almost caught me out not so very long ago. Cue a sprint across the station to print the...
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Tetchytyke replied to the thread Using multiple tickets for one journey should be banned, with passengers forced to exit the train at the split point.The clause you refer to is there to prevent short-faring, i.e. buying a ticket for one stop then claiming you were intending to buy...
