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It's because contactless seems to require 100% online authorisation in most cases these days. It's not a problem with the comms links are working. Back when it was introduced and the max limit was £10/25 it was a case of the terminal/card deciding the risk collectively whether to go online and...

In my interactions with TFL they seem to do fairly well. The issues you describe I think it's partly to do with the fragmentation of private companies -everyone is doing their own thing, and as such inconsistencies arrive. The problem is also the cost of staffing the offices to have people...

I'm not surprised, they must be getting battered with the amount of usage. The flushers are also all electronic and the feed of water is not particularly powerful. Why is this country so slow in doing building work, I mean blocks of apartments get thrown up quicker in the amount of time it...

I always think the seats they had on the SWT slam door trains were the best for comfort. Everything's been downhill since.

Perhaps this is for another thread, but I wonder where the negative perception of the bus comes from especially in the UK? Where you saw the bunch of 20-somethings, was it in in London where the bus services are under the auspices of TFL and are cheap/relatively frequent, or was it somewhere it...

Unethical but not tap in is probably what most people have done. As I was going to Waterloo it shall be interesting to see how the TFL backend copes with my journey of tapping in at Surbiton, and then another entry tap at Clapham Junction and then an exit at Waterloo. On the way back, once I...

After yesterday's fun times trying to get from Surbiton to Waterloo, three words I can use are "mileage may vary". The information and signposting to passengers is dreadful. There is no clear signage on each bus as to where which service goes. There is unreasonable menace on the signage...

Is yours a smaller/centrally located store? Perhaps they're trying the Tesco Express type model in terms of having smaller packs but at higher margins. The one that's (if you excuse the pun) rare as hen's teeth is the box of 15 eggs. They've rarely found in Aldi these days and the 12 or 6 is...

The A/C should be lovely in the summer but you're right it's bloody freezing.

Not surprised, they need to cut the crap. I was on an SWR service recently and it was relentless, and I felt sorry for the poor guard who had to keep delivering all this. Who cares for monologues about taking all your personal items with you, paying attention to the safety labels next to the...

Perhaps the large amount of rattles are down to the poor road surfaces, and with electric buses being quiet it is more apparent, as it would have been masked by a diesel engine chugging away? Although I was in a BYD Enviro 200 the other day (the same as mentioned on another thread) and was sat...

I was on a BYD Enviro 200 the other day and the vents were blowing out cold air from the air conditioning in the middle of winter. Lovely for summer, but very uncomfortable for winter when factored in with the outside temperature. I'm surprised there is no manual override or control of the...

61016 but via email, allowing you to explain further? https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/How-to-use-our-text-number/

Takes the piss :D - how long does it take to rip out one set of bogs (and associated hardware) and put in some replacements?! The new toilets in the sidings were a nirvana when they first opened. Now they're getting pretty battered due to the heavy use of having no M/F toilets in the main...

If the Liverpool Street ones are the same design as the ones in Victoria, the heavy doors on the cubicles seem to get broken easily, I saw a few in the men's sans door.

This clock does go askew from time to time when you're not looking, I was there last week and the time was about 7h ahead, time locally was 09:00 and the clock was displaying 17:00 (!). Interesting to hear the technology behind it, I was just under the impresssion it was operated under its owns...

And fresh meat too for Iceland, up until fairly recently (last year or so?) the refrigerated chicken portions came from Poland. I would also question the carbon footprint, since frozen articles have to be kept at a lower temperature, thus consume more energy to store and transport it.

It's sensible to have a window open, yes it will let some fresh cold breeze in but eventually stops the windows from steaming up and being completely saturated with condensation, which is a bit gross when it becomes water and starts dripping off the windows. To all those that sit and complain...

It all reminds me of the cable TV rollouts of the 90s. Loads of cruft coming through/turning up at the door to try and sell you the new-fangled service with cable internet and hundreds of channels. What does need addressing is the retention of your landline number as a phone service. There's...

It's an optimistic view, but then again it's good PR for him to get people talking; practically speaking the shops will still have all of the fixtures in situ (the Wilkos I've seen anyway have had all the shelves etc still in place, and not dismantled or ripped out) so will likely only need...