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The Ham's latest activity
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TThe Ham replied to the thread The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch.Indeed, the issues I come across are more too do with the cuts in local services having no resources to provide the required responses...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Rail usage.Indeed, and my point was to highlight that just looking at the passenger numbers (given the changes due to EL) wouldn't give the whole...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Rail usage.GWR have lost a LOT of passengers to the Elizabeth Line, only thing is they were mostly shorter distance passengers and so would have a...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread The cost of living agenda - how should the railway contribute ?.A few thoughts. Robot Taxis/Self Driving Cars are priced as taxis and are unlikely to see price falls any time soon. Arguably, if...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Fantasy: If you could re-design HS2 ....The thing is HS2 (full Y) would have brought benefits to a lot of the country. Two things to note: - there's never been a report into...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Cross-country overcrowding: what could be done?.Indeed, (and yes itwas Project Thor) as I've said before wee could have seen: IWC 20×5 coach 221 sets XC 34×5 coach 220 sets XC 7×5...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Cross-country overcrowding: what could be done?.The problem with a 7 coach set is that is a much higher capacity train (464 seats assuming 48 first class seats) which puts it bigger...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Cross-country overcrowding: what could be done?.New trains would likely be significantly cheaper to run than the current 22x fleet (lower diesel costs, likely lower track access...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Should car accidents have more prominent reporting?.There's no realistic chance of having any driving speed limits of over 100mph. First up our roads are too busy, there would be so few...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Cross-country overcrowding: what could be done?.Like most things it's not a clear cut answer. Whilst Virgin ordered the trains the number of coaches ordered was set by the SRA and as...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread UK switching to electric vehicles discussion.Whilst I agree with the point about swappable batteries being similar to hydrogen for land transport fuel, I recon that using some spare...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread UK switching to electric vehicles discussion.Ten years time things are likely to be quite different: - there's likely to be around 1 million more social homes built in that time...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Should car accidents have more prominent reporting?.The thing with L plates is that they can be left on a vehicle with limited legal consequences. If such plates were inadvertently left...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread Taxing road users by mile.Indeed, which was why I cited a daily use of 20 miles and only gave the example of it being able to be higher if there was a charger at...
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TThe Ham replied to the thread UK switching to electric vehicles discussion.Even with a number of kids and doing 240 mile trips with them to see family several times a year, our average car occupancy per mile is...