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Sorry Typhoon, completely missed that! The school buses seem to carry half the school population in NW Kent. Cutting those back will see hundreds of more cars on the road.

Kent County Council have announced that they are reducing their funding towards local buses by over a third (£2.2m), and the resulting cuts to bus services seems quite radical. They put it down to rising costs of their statutory services. This, I’m sure, will get nowhere near the central media...

I hope it (or a version of it) survives into a new administration. While a new Transport Secretary may have strong views on an alternative model and could look to implement that (remember Grayling’s attempts to franchise harder?), I suspect a big problem could be ending up with a Transport Sec...

Perhaps not - it’ll affect the lower middle class instead, particularly those who live in areas just outside London with very limited local transport.

Perhaps the answer here is to simply devolve some income tax revenue to London… The issue with ULEZ is that it will target lower-income people living both in and around London. With no carrot to support people to get more efficient vehicles it will do a lot of damage.

People have said staffing and London's Contactless system. London does it the best for sure. Nothing can quite prepare you for the Paris Metro's fully gated but staff-less stations. Had to jump the barrier twice (with a valid ticket) due to lack of staff.

Birmingham? :lol:

Interestingly I was at Abbey Wood on Tuesday and, despite a London-bound Thameslink train pulling into the station, a couple heading towards Plumstead/Woolwich area were running to cross the footbridge to board the EL train.

If/when they install validators at Abbey Wood I hope they work better than the National Rail -> DLR validator at Woolwich Arsenal. Great for tapping into the DLR on Oyster but never accepted The Key (so you would have to find another place to 'tap out' first!).

Quite an exciting day across the Crossrail network - the staff seem very happy, Geoff Marshall perpetually being surrounded, and even got in a quick chat with Mark Wild. Commuters seem to already be using it - guy sat next to me said he'd been waiting 10 years! By about midday all the...

Similarly it was common on the Southeastern metro route to Gravesend to see Norfleet, Southfleet and Stone Crossing with a 'Train departed 2 minutes early.' No idea if it still happens, but I would be very peeved if I arrived at the platform with 90 seconds until departure time to see it'd...

Toton perhaps? Or is that leg of HS2 not that popular these days... I know they're talking out of London (and presumably moving Civil Servants out of Horseferry Road), but I thought Network Rail also had a large base outside Euston Station? They do have a very new and shiny Government office...

I presume as part of any devolution agreement there would be a requirement to run X number of services beyond the current Oyster boundary, including the possible operation of stations on the Dartford-Gravesend part of the line. This would be done in consultation with Kent County Council and is...

So so happy for the couple, Laura's passion and love for the railways (and her wife!) really shines through. Someone will always complain, but I don't think Avanti could have picked a better couple!

Avanti have picked a winner, and the winner has posted to TikTok! She sounds very excited - good on Avanti for doing this.

Can't quite beat out Leeds, but St Pancras from 16:30 today: Brighton Cambridge Paris Nord Leeds Rainham St Albans City Dover Priory Gatwick Airport Nottingham Bedford Sutton Luton Horsham Peterborough Corby (then St Albans City)

Another comment has picked up the latter point, but on the first: In order to tell the app you're positive, you have to enter a code you receive from the NHS only if you test positive from a COVID test. Only the code can trigger exposure notifications (the 'pings'). I mean...deleting and...

The app only alerts you if you have been in close proximity to someone who has recently tested positive with COVID. So many people are being pinged because we've seen about 250,000 positive cases this week. It's the high case rate and public health/government policy that is the lead cause - the...

People very keen to delete the app it seems, but with 50,000 cases per day, presumably the high rate of people being pinged by the app shows that it's working? The 'app' isn't causing businesses to lose frontline workers, people testing positive for COVID is. They should tweak the app so it...

I love the idea of a sleeper train between the UK and parts of Europe - would provide a good alternative when going to places like Frankfurt or Barcelona where day trains are just unfeasible. However, unless there is a significant change in UK Government policy, the only option for a sleeper...