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I'd disagree, things quickly become messy with such thinking. A bus lane still provides useful benefits even at 3am, if we show discretion in enforcement because it's quite at 3am, you'll also have people wanting discretion shown in other situations. If the public interest is in there being...

It sounds like the dog and bone beats the current computer system because the current computer system isn't very good (my understanding is that an operator, who might not understand or be able to find out the constraints of a station can log a request which might, or might not be possible to...

People in Thurnscoe have regular buses to Barnsley and Doncaster, that seems like reasonable bus access to a nearby large town. I think expecting free public transport access to Sheffield too seems a bit ott, and certainly far more than what people in other places get. Another way of looking...

A means tested ENCTS is probably most useful when just a thought experiment to highlight how untargetted ENCTS is. As ANorthernGuard rightly points out, dignity is very important - there will be problems with entitled people not claiming, and I'm not sure having to advertise the fact that...

You say you don't care about past mistakes, but you are using the past as justification. I'm clearly not going to convince you, but I don't see how this isn't doublethink. Whilst war is emotive, to have served in WWII, someone would have to be 85+ now. This puts the number of pensioners...

A quick Reductio ad absurdum argument to counter this: The lifetime taxes paid for things being provided at that moment of time. If you are going to claim that older people are a homogeneous group, and bring up lifetime earnings, as an argument for the idea that local train services should be...

I think Greenback summarises the situation well. I'm relatively young. I don't feel resentful towards older people. But I do feel that we have politicians who, when making decisions, often don't make them based on how much objective harm/good they will do, but are strongly influenced by the...

There's a difference. Aren't ENCTS payments are per-journey (well, per-bus). So 150 bus journeys on ENCTS would be quite costly for the taxpayer. 150 bus journeys on a plusbus or day ticket only costs the bus companies.

I think the problem is in the fact the message says that a cheaper ticket available for their journey, a user might reasonably take this as implying that they are allowed to use the cheaper ticket (much in the same way that if the message said SNR RCD OFF-PEAK RETURN is cheaper, a normal user...

Golly, there is an awful lot of judgement in this thread. For a variety of very sensible and reasonable reasons, a passenger might prefer to sit at a table. This might include, for example, the passenger preferring to sit at a table, even if the other seats are occupied by a group of 3...

I'm not sure such generalised statement were meant to be taken too literally. It's most likely what was meant was "if there are no double seats available, and most people have kindly left the seat next to them free, but some people have placed the bag on the seat next to them for no good reason...

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think you should. I meant if someone had a ticket that should work, then making sure the ticket goes through the barrier is a good idea (checks ticket, reassures passenger gates work). In your example, clearly telling the gateline assistant you have just passed...

Not answering your question, but us passengers usually pick the most convenient option. There are many ticket/gateline combinations where perfectly valid tickets are rejected. I think a lot of the distrust of ticket barriers can be put down to this. Maybe the spread of barriers, and more...

Two thoughts. Firstly, Northern and ATW will usually get second hand stock. When we then talk about them being loss-making, we are attributing the cost of the (less-profitable) trains to them, so that the South East can get new trains. There's nothing wrong with this, of course, and it makes...

Nationalisation doesn't mean DfT should micromanage the whole operation. DOR (or multiple DOR-type companies) could be in charge of day-to-day operation, similar to the way the East Coast mainline runs at the moment. It could be structured such that e.g. the East and West Coast companies are...

On the subject of 'customer service', I did witness a fun incident at Reading a while back. A suited commuter was loudly ranting at an admirably polite member of platform staff, I think about not being allowed to stand in the 1st vestibule. A tall, well-built chap, who looked like he wouldn't...

Well, I'd see delay repay as part of the initial contract. It's a "we'll get you there in the time we said you will, or your money back" type agreement. Which is useful part of the offering in attracting and keeping customers. Making the money back part difficult to spend annoys people, which is...

Phrased positively, the idea is to stimulate demand outside the peak, and make it more attractive for peak-time commuters to travel earlier/later - it's a carrot, rather than a stick. There are people out there with more flexibility. A few years ago, I considered commuting off-peak, but it...

It's probably worth re-mentioning Timster83's 15 minute rolling footage idea here. When the record button is pressed, the previous 15 minutes are stored together with the incident after that point in time. We have the technology, it provides extra protection to both sides (in most cases, such...

I'd understand such an announcement not to be saying that it was physically impossible for the guard to walk through, but it was impractical and imprudent safety-wise or operationally. A passenger could then make their way through the train, or use the platform at a station.