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I believe Watford are still running the Arriva Click service. I’ve rarely seen one in action and they seem to carry one passenger and a lot of fresh air. Watford Council started off with a contract for 4 years but whether this will endure remains to be seen.
Dave B | 13.07.21 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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This sounds a bit like the extension of the 'Ring and Ride' services that exist in many, more rural, parts of the country where bus services are almost non-existent. The difference is that those existing services are intended specifically for people with mobility difficulties - I wonder if many people have assumed that this rule also applies for these trial schemes in London.
James | 13.07.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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Slide Ealing - Sly Dealing? Who knows?!
James Matcham | 13.07.21 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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With fewer than 100,000 passengers and so many wielding Freedom Passes the total takings must have been less than £200,000
TfL get re-imbursed for Freedom Pass journeys. In theory, they are not out of pocket at all for over 65s travel. It's only the 60 to 65 London Pass that TfL subsidize.
ScottishExile | 13.07.21 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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Everything seems to be moving towards having everything you want 'On Demand'.
Ok, no one wants to go back to the pre-bus app days of waiting an hour for a bus only to find 3 come together, but at the same time I can't help but feel that by having whatever one wants as soon as it is wanted is adding fuel to the impatient/intolerant society that seems to be growing in certain sectors.
As they say, patience is a virtue, and it seems the fair folk of Sutton & Ealing are prepared to wait for the regular service.
Cornish Cockney | 13.07.21 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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When did you last DIAL on a telephone (i.e. finger in hole and rotate)?
Let us campaign for "Ring and Ride".
pierre | 13.07.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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Love this:
“both services had empty mileage on more than half the kilometres operated"
Miles and Kilometres…
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 13.07.21 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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(for those of us born late 60's mixing metric and imperial based on which gives the most convenient number is second nature ... buying 10m of 2"x4" is the norm)
Round here the Little White Bus is king. Community owned, mainly volunteer driven, they run all around Wensleydale and Swaledale, often extending routes by request phoning. One of our B&B guests even arrived at the door from Hawes by LWB, even though there isn't a timetabled route over Buttertubs Pass.
Putters | 13.07.21 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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If "dial" is obsolete, so is "ring" - as few phones have bells as do dials. Mine still has both, however!
cau1khead | 13.07.21 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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Good that TFL and others are experimenting, presumably searching for some threshold beyond which such schemes begin to be used frequently by those who are currently regular car users.
It would be splendid if one day a service could be developed that appeals to and is usable by most car addicts. When cars become too expensive to run? When public transport is almost free to commuters and mums? When car traffic is even more jammed to a standstill? Hope they keep on with these trial schemes, not just outside London.
Herbof | 13.07.21 - 11:03 p.m. | #
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Ah, "mixed reality"! Welcome to my world...
cau1khead | 18.07.21 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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