The London Buzz – 20th December 2024
21 hours ago
Saturday, 7 May 2016
While I'm overjoyed that Sadiq Khan will be our mayor for the next four years I'm rather saddened by the news that Richard Tracey, purveyor of moronic opinions on how the Tube should work since 2008, will no longer be around to entertain us. Maybe he simply ran out of stupid ideas or maybe he finally realised that everything he had said that related to transport was so much dingoes kidneys but for whatever reason he decided that he'd had enough. Even if he had decided to carry on it would have been the same outcome as Labour won Merton and Wandsworth.
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Be interesting how TFL is going to cope with the no fare increases for 4 years promise? i'd assume they'd like to cut some more station staff but that clusterfuck is still ongoing so who knows?
ReplyDeleteFrom what Khan said before he was elected I suspect the cuts are going to be at the top rather than the bottom (more than 400 TfL executives on £100k+ and £385 spent on agency staff/consultants).
DeleteCut more station staff.......? Whilst we see many station closures at present (opening of traffic until a manager or alike is found to fill the gap) things will get shockingly worse once the severance crowd go...which they are one by one now. Come the end of June or July I dred to think what will happen.
DeleteI just wish management would stop pretending they give a flying fig, we now have constant uncovered overtime now as all our new staff commute from a million miles away and don't fancy doing that on their day off. Whereas all the old staff have no desire to do overtime as they'd rather the new system crash and burn. It's going to be a complete disaster once the last of the severance lot leave
DeleteAnd about time.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering actually, after trying to answer a question my son was asking about bus fares, how one could implement a "transfer" style fare system using Oyster / Bonk-to-pay. You know, like the ones that are common in America where you can get an underground along, say, a north-south trunk and then transfer to an east-west bus service without extra charge.
Not a clue, I've had free travel for the last 17 years and had nothing to do with tickets for the last 12.
DeleteImplementing a transfer ticket has always been technically possible - at least since they implemented Oyster Pay As You Go on National Rail. It's always been a question of money and politics...
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