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diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.06.24 - 9:02 a.m. | #

I never understood why TfL went to the trouble of building a new ticket office at Acton Main Line when it was obvious how little used it would be.

Although passenger numbers at Acton Main Line are rising rapidly I suspect this will be more than offset by increased usage of the proportion of people not using a ticket office.

If Canary Wharf, Custom House and Woolwich don't have ticket offices why have one at Acton Main Line?

Pedantic of Purley | 02.06.24 - 9:44 a.m. | #

12. Why would anyone even consider scrapping the 549?? It's infrequent enough as it is. I remember when it used to be hourly (which was bad enough because I needed to commute by bus from Loughton to Leytonstone via Woodford - couldn't afford the tube all the way to Zone 6) and now they reduced it even further to every 90 minutes. If anything, it should have an even more frequent service.

dg writes: because

Ell | 02.06.24 - 10:01 a.m. | #

Ey ey, ba day, ba wadladie day, ay um ba day, ba day, ba wadladie day!

MC | 02.06.24 - 10:29 a.m. | #

Stratford Market Depot on the Jubilee Line has a level crossing, it has manual operated gates.

Bob | 02.06.24 - 11:40 a.m. | #

10. No it doesn’t. A chunk of customers wouldn’t use the second bus if the hopper fare didn’t exist. That’s not to say it’s not valuable, but the amount is questionable.

Nick | 02.06.24 - 11:52 a.m. | #

3. They’ve butchered the Piccadilly line around Hounslow 🫣

Dave Jones | 02.06.24 - 11:57 a.m. | #

10. I would also dispute this… in order to massage the figures to make it look better when the mayor introduced the hopper fare, TfL said that every other bus journey all day long is a hopper journey (if it meets the time requirement) even though any journey after the third paid fare is free anyway and has been for many years previously. Therefore a certain proportion of these “hopper fares” saved would previously have counted as “daily cap reached” saves, so are not really as a result of the introduction of said hopper fare.

Mackay | 02.06.24 - 12:30 p.m. | #

19. "Only"??

Tom | 02.06.24 - 12:32 p.m. | #

13) Disgraceful. Was my pride and joy when we opened it 01 May 1999. The only quadruple interchange in London - Bus, Tube, DLR, National Rail

Scrumpy | 02.06.24 - 3:44 p.m. | #

10. Agree with previous comments. The crucial thing is it loses TfL revenue (though not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things) for nothing like as much benefit to passengers as the Mayoral spin suggested. The other advantage for TfL was that they could shorten bus routes and say that passengers could change buses at no extra cost.

One drawback glossed over at the time is that it used up a bit of Oyster data storage that could in future have enabled a free bus journey when combined with tube travel, arguably more important but perhaps too niche for most politicians.

Andrew S | 02.06.24 - 4:58 p.m. | #

20. Absolutely neat and logical as a theoretical exercise, but I can't see how the approach taken helps anyone making a journey. In the real world for instance renumbering the 607 as the SL7 and the X26 as the SL6 might have been rather more helpful keeping some association with longstanding route numbers.

Andrew S | 02.06.24 - 5:06 p.m. | #

Does asking for a list of FOI requests count as a FOI request itself?

dg writes: no

Patrick | 02.06.24 - 5:32 p.m. | #

May I suggest an FOI request (I'm too idle to file it myself)?
Do the Elizabeth Line, the Jubilee Line and the two branches of the DLR all pass through the same orthogonal (to the Earth's smoothed surface) line just south of Canning Town station?
Note: I suspect that they do. If so, the people who designed the Liz Line *chose* to make the Lizzie the fourth and lowest to pass through what was a pre-existing orthogonal. Maybe deliberately.

William | 02.06.24 - 7:05 p.m. | #

That is exactly the kind of ludicrous request TfL's FOI Case Management Team often have to deal with, the response invariably We do not hold this information.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.06.24 - 7:57 p.m. | #

6) I’m glad I’m not the only one bothered by the damp smell at Liverpool Street. It’s a bit perturbing to read that TfL’s response is “it’s not toxic - it’s fine”.

Dan | 03.06.24 - 7:18 a.m. | #

13). Scrumpy has overlooked the rather earlier quadruple interchange at Stratford.

Highway Engineer | 03.06.24 - 8:17 a.m. | #

13) Even if you disregard Stratford, Canning Town was not the only quadruple interchange for long. Wimbledon added Trams to Tube, bus and NR less than a year later.

Timbo | 03.06.24 - 10:02 a.m. | #

This article featured on London Reconnections' Friday reads list! (published today, Monday)

Louise | 03.06.24 - 9:48 p.m. | #

What a lovely use of TfL staff time. I work at a council and FoI’s a real bug bear of mine. You can say no to doing an FoI if it takes longer than 10 hours staff time but that is still hundreds of pounds.

David | 05.06.24 - 8:07 a.m. | #

Does anyone know which council David works for? Just asking, like

Ian | 05.06.24 - 8:17 a.m. | #

I agree with what David is saying, each FOI costs time and money that could be better spent elsewhere. I have worked in a department dealing with FOI's and half the requests were from normal people and the media, the other half were a constant drip drip oftimewasters

Simon G | 05.06.24 - 8:23 a.m. | #

I do hope that those who table such recheche FOIs duly keep schtum about the cost of Government and of the other services that have to pay people tens of thousands each a year to answer their whims. Not what the process was created for.

David B | 05.06.24 - 9:47 a.m. | #











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