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OOC is also proposed to be underground station with limited surface level access. Road wise (for construction) it is far harder to get to than a site near Heathrow. It sounds like you are suggesting a Heathrow HS2 station would need to be somewhere within the airport perimeter. In fact there is...

Can you imagine the outrage if a Conservative government started sending people home? The pictures of schoolchildren weeping because their best friend is leaving the UK because their parent(s) lost their job and they aren't allowed to be here any more? Any government doing that would be...

It would need to be modelled to get a definitive answer, but my expectation is that because the buses need to be operated over defined routes whereas the taxis are distributed over a much wider network, the effect would be a concentration of movements onto a smaller amount of roadspace. That...

A good start would be not building a brand new high speed public transport system in such a way that it terminates just as it reaches the fringe of that inner core. Especially when the chosen location is very close to the terminus of the last built brand new high speed public transport system...

The main problem there is the lack of space for PHVs to park between jobs. Unlike taxis PHVs don't circulate just to look for trade. Unless they are repositioning to a more suitable location or to collect the next fare, any 'empty' miles are likely to be clocked up to avoid getting a parking...

How would you know whether they had Agoraphobia, Claustrophobia, Autism or Asbergers (for example)? The kind of conditions the Blue Badge scheme was recently extended to cover. It would be a hard 'sell' to explain to these people that although they now have access to a blue badge someone has...

As per edwin_m's post, the issue isn't a pure demand one. There is also a spatial distribution problem. We don't know how many taxis/PHVs would be needed just to cater for disabled people's needs, but lets take 5% as an example. If we were to make an instantaneous plot of the location of all...

The restrictions are transitory, time-limited and cannot be retrospectively applied. The time limits are an initial period of two years, an extension of three years, and in exceptional circumstances a further extension (with permission) of a further two years. So restrictions on workers from...

As alluded to in my previous post, I'd already drawn my own conclusions. It was my Remainer acquaintances that were seeking to convince me that Cameron had won anything substantive. edwin_m's post in response to overthewater appeared to be a continuation of that theme. Me? Personally? I will...

The problem is, if you ban taxis and PHVs for all but disabled/limited mobility people the result will be a massive decrease in the number of vehicles in service. This results in increased waiting time for a taxi/PHV to arrive, and realistically you'd need to forget hailing and have a booking...

Which 'Brexiteers' are demanding you get behind anything? I'm certainly not demanding you or any other Remain supporter does anything. Other than perhaps to stop demanding I answer their questions and to stop presuming I'm stupid/thick/racist/xenophobic in the absence of a satisfactory reply...

That assumes having a direct link to Heathrow isn't achieved by routeing HS2 via Heathrow anyway. Rather than having the first stop at OOC it could have been Heathrow itself. Indeed, one of the reasons we are talking about HS2 at all is because the government of the day had a real problem...

In which case, when Cameron went to Europe to negotiate a new deal and came back with... ...What you are saying is he really came back with a symbolic deal that gave us a symbolic opt-out? Curiously many Remain supporters I've chatted with over the last 4 years or so have been trying to...

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On the contrary. The claim you are referencing is that Brexit has 'cost' the UK circa £200bn by the end of 2020. Your assertion was "We have spent as much (nearly) on getting ready for brexit...". The fact is we have spent nowhere near £200bn "getting ready for brexit". The £200bn figure is a...

By that logic, HS2 should be cancelled due to HS2 Ltd's failure to control budgets..... Just saying. The comparison between HS2 and Crossrail is entirely valid. The organisation funding the project point is largely irrelevant. Crossrail was sold to the public and businesses in London on the...

Trying to bring some clarity to this point - the funding for HS2 isn't some kind of 'special' money that can only be spent on HS2. The Government hasn't taken out a loan specifically to build HS2, so doesn't need anyone's permission* to use that money for something else instead. (*other than...

This is another (very) inaccurate claim. The USA have asked for these issues to be discussed as part of the trade negotiations, which is not the same as "demanding". It isn't unusual for a party at the start of a negotiation to ask for things it knows it won't get, but asks anyway to have...

I agree with this. It is why I don't think the idea of a public transport system that substantially replaces car use is a realistic prospect. The £1.50 fare (which we probably all agree is a disincentive) is subsidised and supported by being part of a much larger system which is intensively...

What is the importance of standing up to the USA? What about China, Russia, India, Brazil? How much has France stood up to the USA over their proposals for a 'Google Tax'? What level of support has France had from the EU to implement this policy as soon as possible?