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diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.01.26 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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15) The 96 (and 428) effectively run like a Superloop between Dartford and Bluewater anyway, stopping at just Darent Valley Hospital on the way.
The 492 takes a completely different route within central London to the 96, and after Dartford station takes a different route to Bluewater, providing a stopping service in East Dartford (including another hospital Livingstone) so is way too important to have its stops removed.
Mikey C | 31.01.26 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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3. Could have been answered better.
The Metropolitan Board of Works was required by an act of parliament to provide the Woolwich Ferry for free. When the Metropolitan Board of Works was replaced by the London County Council (LCC) they then were obliged to provide this service. Subsequently this requirement has been included in the creation of successive bodies and so it would require an act of parliament to introduce charges for using the Woolwich Ferry.
There is also a legal obligation to run the service (i.e. not close it down other than for short term problems such as strikes, bad weather or boat unavailability beyond their control). It is the only transport service TfL are legally obliged to run.
The answer correctly states that there are no plans to introduce charges but does not state why.
5. The answer may well be correct but the answer given is wrongly deduced.
The answer presumes that because the attached frequency table shows 20tph run between Elephant & Castle and Queen's Park then 20tph terminate at Queen's Park. But this include trains continuing north of Queen's Park and the person answering clearly has not understood this.
Pedantic of Purley | 31.01.26 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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14 - I had wondered about that. That main entrance had seemed permanently locked shut from soon after the station opened. Glad it’s now fixed.
Dan | 31.01.26 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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5. The answer assumes that a 20tph service can be maintained down the hole even if nothing can proceed beyond Queens Park (for example because of maintennace work on the open air section)
Bonus 2. "Button press" could be when a card fails to operate the reader but the driver allows the passenger on anyway (as happened to me several times last weekend - new Freedom Pass now ordered)
Timbo | 31.01.26 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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Odd that the stats on payment type on buses don't mention English "country" ENCTS bus passes. These have to be "flashed" at the driver; a few of these correctly press a button for eventual back office reconciliations etc., but the majority don't seem to bother (or even glance at the card, or check the apparent elderliness of the holder).
Roger | 31.01.26 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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I think ‘button push’ relates to those using English bus passes and paper travelcards which cannot be read by the on board equipment
N Garnham | 31.01.26 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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It's fairly common for kids in uniform to get on without their card, as well. I know how often teenagers lose things, or just can't be bothered. The driver notes those. Otherwise they get their fingers rapped on the off chance revenue collection audits the bus. (I've never seen it happen, but apparently it does)
Chz | 31.01.26 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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19) Has anyone recently asked about the cost of the 60+ pass? They haven't asked TfL, it's not coming up on their search.
dg writes: August 2025, number 13
Bonus 1) Are there estimates of how many of these maps get to unique customers? Excluding binned due to errors, eBay sellers, blown out by winds.
Bonus 2) Please tell us if any other bloggers do a deeper dive.
toby | 31.01.26 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Bonus 2
The button press figure is a consistent 7.1% for virtually all routes suggesting that it is indeed an estimate.
Freddie Fitch | 31.01.26 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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5. A couple of years ago there were some closures on the Bakerloo line north of Queen’s Park during the weekdays, in the peaks only 15tph reversed at Queen’s Park. If you reverse 20tph at Queen’s Park you’d only get 6 minutes to run from the NB platform to the siding, switch ends and run back to the SB platform, pretty much the absolute bare minimum so would not be workable without stepping back… even then with two sidings that’d just be a huge mess.
Jacques | 31.01.26 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Two request that weren't made but could/should have been:
Why is the tube map printed on paper of quality only slightly better than toilet paper?
Why isn't the tube map printed to a larger size to be more legible?
Uncle Baz | 31.01.26 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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Bonus 2: Once again, most of the routes are straight replacements for, or follow(158) the routeings of, the former trolleybus and tram systems. That tells us something—but what? Perhaps it suggests that the traditional 'General' bus routes, once so important, are now waning.
Steve | Homepage | 31.01.26 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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20. Turnham Green.
Ian | 31.01.26 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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6 - I wonder if everyone who submits an FoI request about this route gets added to a database?
10 - why not put a mask over an LED display. I notice that in eastern Europe the LED traffic lights are just flat panels, not even a cowling over each of the lights, as LEDs don't need a lens why not have squares instead of circles?
13 - so there are non-persistent ceiling leaks?
16 - if you plan to make false accusations then wait at least one month.
20 - assuming the cross platform interchange is in the direction you want to travel in.
Still Anon | 31.01.26 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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1) This is probably the most sensible question and answer I for a FoI that I have ever seen. The questionner says they work for Merseyrail and they clearly want the information for work purposes. The response is extremely detailed and helpful and not a minimal response to satisfy the request.
The only surprise is there wasn't another mechanism known about or used to get the information without resorting to an FoI.
5) In the case of there being no service north of Queens Park (the enquirer did not specify) the trains can terminate in the platforms as there is a crossover available east (south) of the station so both platforms for terminating can be used. Given that we know that Elephant and Castle can support 22tph it is probable that Queens Park can too. There would probably be the need for stepping back but in such circumstances there is generally an excess of drivers available and a very simple service pattern.
Pedantic of Purley | 31.01.26 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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Number 11 is my favourite person in the world.
Scott | Homepage | 31.01.26 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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11 - Struggling to find the third word that the questioner has a problem with.
Trevor S | 31.01.26 - 12:40 p.m. | #
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9. Just 1% of these applying to join TfL get a look in. Not even necessarily a job. Bit of a waste of resources?
Michael Jones | 31.01.26 - 5:25 p.m. | #
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13: That sounds like TfL values their staff's safety above their customers', as a roof collapse should endanger passengers more.
Patrickov | 31.01.26 - 5:36 p.m. | #
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20. There is also a cross platform interchange at Harrow between the fast and slow Met services, although these days that's only useful in the rush hour, since there isn't any fast service at other times.
Basil Jet | 31.01.26 - 8:33 p.m. | #
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20) feels like a DG post in the making.
Alfie | 31.01.26 - 8:53 p.m. | #
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20) I can't quite make a single journey using all 11 cross-platform interchanges :)
• → Mile End → Barons Court → Hammersmith → Acton Town →
• → Wembley Park → Finchley Road → Baker Street → Oxford Circus → Stockwell →
• → Stockwell → Euston → Finsbury Park →
diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.01.26 - 9:17 p.m. | #
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#14 Whatever broke the gates at Bond Street has happened again - they’re once again closed.
M | 01.02.26 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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10. I am sure there was still one of the crossings in place last night when I was going from Charing Cross to The Coliseum...
Lee | 01.02.26 - 5:41 p.m. | #
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Any information request to TfL that isn't a travel or lost property inquiry tends to be referred automatically to the FOI team, so even if no explicit FOI request has been made, it is answered (and enumerated) as such.
John Cartledge | 06.02.26 - 8:07 p.m. | #
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10. Walking past today, only some have been upgraded to LED so far but since the FOI, it seems that a solution has been found as the 'diverse' green symbols are now showing with full LED brightness at the upgraded signals. I agree that there's a publishable story still there given the 'news' often pushed out.
MS | 10.02.26 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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