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When they say that 30% of trips are made on foot, does that include trips from the sofa to the fridge? If not, then what is the minimum distance for a trip to count as a trip?
Mike Scott | 04.02.16 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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Where it says 'Zero Emission Urban Bus System', and you've put (ZeEUS),shouldn't it be (ZEUBS)?
Tube Geek | 04.02.16 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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Thanks dg!
I'm glad to hear more than half of kids walk to school. Had feared the school run had taken over completely.
Dan | 04.02.16 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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DG, what please is 'wireless charging' on the 69 bus?
dg writes: See here.
Thicko | 04.02.16 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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I see we readers are stunned into silence. Thanks for the info - very informative.
B | 04.02.16 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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I see we readers are stunned into silence. Thanks for the info - very informative.
B | 04.02.16 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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The Manor Park trial electronic display, which I think was a big improvement, has now been removed.
Amazingly Ticket halls do seem better now that the ticket offices have closed - eg the big queues usually seen at Euston were just not there when I passed through one morning this week.
Nicks | 04.02.16 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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So turning the New Year's Eve fireworks into an all ticket event, then turning Zone One into a walled fortress, proved to be off putting to the general public? How surprising.
Scott | Homepage | 04.02.16 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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The Board may describe Crossrail as being on time, but when tunnelling began all the Crossrail marketing stated 2016, which is hardly the same as partial opening on existing track in December 2018!
Scrumpy | 04.02.16 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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Wireless charging? Pah, why not 'just' stick up some wires on poles/ attached to buildings and do away with the need for any charging. Some kinda pole/ pantograph type thingy could connect each vehicle to the powered wire perhaps. I believe this has been tried extensively in other places including Moscow, Salzburg, Lyon and Castellón de la Plana etc. etc. In some of these visionary cities articulated vehicles are used, these might perhaps offer speedier boarding and higher passenger loads. Anybody?
Lorenzo | 04.02.16 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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" • The introduction of digital advertising panel technology at bus shelters, from 22 February, will see 650 new panels installed by the end of August. This will provide an interactive way for advertisers to showcase their products and a means to provide local information to customers "
oh good grief, yet more advertising
Caz | 04.02.16 - 11:28 a.m. | #
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@ Lorenzo
Apart from masses of trams, Zurich has some very impressive double-bendy trolleybuses. It's amazing to see them doing U-turns ! Needless to say, the air in Zurich is hyper-clean.
It's a great shame that London abandoned its trolleybuses and trams over 50 / 60 years ago and that they still haven't made a comeback in central London.
Gerry | 04.02.16 - 11:30 a.m. | #
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Wireless charging: will passengers with pacemakers find they get quite 'excited' ?
Perhaps this free on-board diathermy will make your mobile phone glow more brightly, and keeping your contactless cards in your gloves means they'll serve as handwarmers?
Or perhaps you'll just get a nice warm feeling all over...
Gerry | 04.02.16 - 12:09 p.m. | #
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Nothing publically published re: learning lessons from blogs about co-ordinating actions when bus stops have to be moved?
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 04.02.16 - 1:15 p.m. | #
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I contributed several all-walk, Oyster and Museum visit counts. I probably contributed 2 cycling counts as well but the problem is I don't know how to cycle.
Patrickov | 04.02.16 - 2:04 p.m. | #
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DG, thanks for the info. I truly did not know that something could be 'wirelessly' charged. Perhaps the technology could be adapted for domestic use so old codgers like me can stop tripping over all the wires recharging phones, iPads etc!
Thicko | 04.02.16 - 4:48 p.m. | #
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"wireless" charging...seems people forget about solar-power ...as in calculators say?
E | 04.02.16 - 5:35 p.m. | #
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Does anyone find the "walking" one a bit intrusive, and big brother? Sod off, TfL - i should be able to go for a walk where i like, when I like without you recording it as a 'journey'. Walking is not a service run by TfL....
Geoffech | 04.02.16 - 7:07 p.m. | #
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Geofftech: It's in TfL's interests to encourage you to walk - then you're one less person clogging up the buses and the tube!
Thicko: wireless charging has been around for years in a quite unassuming product - electric toothbrushes! It's slowly gaining traction in mobile phones too, and IKEA sell recharging pads for compatible devices (some of which can be integrated into furniture).
As for the New Year's Eve numbers: from my vantage point in E10, I saw fireworks from dozens, if not hundreds, of back gardens across north London. Perhaps more people stayed at home and did their own displays rather than head into town.
martin | 04.02.16 - 7:15 p.m. | #
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@Thicko There are several manufacturers with wireless charging options for phones etc. For example: http://wireless-charger-review.toptenreviews.com
Clearly there is a modest reduction in the hassle over plugging in but there is a power loss associated with these schemes over and above what you'd suffer with a simple bit of copper wire.
There is some potential for wireless charing vehicle batteries during lay-overs with chargers buried in the road surface. However, dynamic (on the move) wireless charging looks complicated and expensive (because of the long coil loops required in the road way) compared with the trolly bus wires that Lorenzo favours.
Tunnel Bore | 04.02.16 - 8:18 p.m. | #
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Anyone manage to get a picture of the Manor Park customer information board? Can't seem to find anything online.
Richard Smith | 04.02.16 - 11:27 p.m. | #
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"The closure of LU ticket offices has been accompanied by an increase in the number of ticket machines at major stations. When combined with a reduction in the number of sales transactions, this means that customers are seeing shorter queueing times and a better ticket buying experience" - what a massive lie. It's now well night impossible to top up Oyster swiftly at major railway interchanges such as Euston as all the clueless travellers who used to queue at the ticket office are now queueing at the machines.
Helen | 06.02.16 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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TFl aren't recording every walking journey, but they do have to do some sampling and come up with estimates of when and where people walk, and when and where people want to walk.
It's their job to create the facilities people need to walk, and they manage many of the highways that we walk on. No different in principle to journeys people make with their own vehicles.
Barney | 07.02.16 - 4:06 p.m. | #
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