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diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.11.25 - 12:55 a.m. | #
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15e: Before getting too excited about a potential February SL14 launch: “However, an implementation date later in 2026 or early 2027 is more achievable for agreeing costs, finalising infrastructure requirements, and for consultation to be undertaken.”
Dan | 30.11.25 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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14: There are a few London bus drivers who insist that I tap my (National) bus pass on the reader and then are surprised that it doesn't work!
Tim W | 30.11.25 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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14. Do London residents who are old enough for a national bus card have to carry two cards?
Malcolm of Kent | 30.11.25 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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14. I agree that some drivers do not understand the procedure for ENCTS cards. Presumably those drivers also do not press their counter button and so TfL undercounts ENCTS journeys.
Ian | 30.11.25 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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14. Malcolm - no, London residents get the London card, and other people in England get the ENCTS card issued by thie local councils.
Ian | 30.11.25 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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16 is just a perfect! •chefs kiss• way to tell someone to bugger off and I love it. Oh that’s got me really chuckling this morning …
Daryl | 30.11.25 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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16 should be the default answer for anyone who submits more than 4-5 requests a year. A lot of people go on about taxpayers money and how to cut waste. Well, stopping endless FOI requests are one method where you could save some cash.
Andy | 30.11.25 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Last year TfL received 4207 FoI requests.
Also, "answering an FOI request should not cost more than £450".
That's a ceiling cost of £1.9m a year.
By contrast the SL4 bus costs £6.2m a year.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.11.25 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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I suspect that #16 this month is likely to be the person from #20 last month. I doubt this will be the last we hear of them. In the response last month TfL stated this person submits a request on overage every 3-4 weeks
Al__S | 30.11.25 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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Strangely, a mere 5 days after his latest FOI request, this vexatious individual was "accidentally" run over by a TfL bus.... :)
Agent X | 30.11.25 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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10. Wow! That's some serious nerding out there. I'd love for TfL to run a series of presentations about the engineering challenges of the new tube. I'm sure many tube nerds would willing pay cold hard cash to attend such sessions so it could be cost neutral to TfL.
Jon Jones | 30.11.25 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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16. I can only imagine the collective sigh of relief in the TfL FoI office when that response was sent out.
Jon Jones | 30.11.25 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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My team at work has started picking up quite a few FoIs and a lot are very questionable. We get lots from university students who could have probably have found the information online. There’s also a person who does FoIs saying “I’m autistic and interested in road signs. Please send any plans for highway schemes completed in the last year showing sign placement”. I suspect he contacts other authorities. Such a waste of time.
David | 30.11.25 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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Jon Jones: I believe members of the public can sign up for membership in the Permanent Way Institution (for a fee, of course!)
Anonymous | 30.11.25 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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10. I think this is missing the word ’kinematic’ as in kinematic envelope.
Marc | 30.11.25 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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5) I find it useful to keep my Oyster in a separate wallet from the rest of my cards, and indeed in 3 years time will hopefully have my over 60 one.
It's handy to tap the whole wallet on the reader, without worry of card clash which might happen if it's the same wallet with my bank and credit card. And safer than having to take the card out to tap on the reader.
Mikey C | 30.11.25 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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6: As a frequent user of one particular Metroline bus, I thought the air conditioning was just a case of sucking in air from outside.
Most often the upper deck seems to be blowing out hot air in the summer with cold air blasting down your neck in winter!
10: Why on earth make carriages with no wheels? If they're all the same then problem solved!
Cornish Cockney | 30.11.25 - 12:37 p.m. | #
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5) I, for one, miss them. The original wallet, when it first came out, was iconic. A nice combo.
damoirl | 30.11.25 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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Cornish Cockney (10) - I believe it is one of the devices they need to create enough space to allow for the air conditioning on the smaller tube trains.
MikeK | 30.11.25 - 1:56 p.m. | #
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3. Either the eastbound restriction had been applied only that day or things were even worse. The day before that FOI was made I was on the Central Line Stratford to Leyton and the noise was so painful it was almost torture.
Tim Roll-Pickering | 30.11.25 - 3:15 p.m. | #
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14. The bus readers could be made to read non-London bus passes. It's a fairly simple data change which was nearly done a few years back but the project fizzled out thanks to a lack of any real pressure to do it and the need for a bit of funding for the admin involved.
Andrew S | 30.11.25 - 6:01 p.m. | #
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14. Use of a Hertfordshire card on London buses corrupted two cards - the issuing office didn't know of this problem when providing #2! So I keep the younger one (still in date) for London use, but have to be careful as local buses recognise that it's been cancelled...
Nick K | 30.11.25 - 7:27 p.m. | #
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10- Yes, I did read the engineering report which ends with "questions?" and the obvious one which was not adressed is "why bother trying to do it".
kev | 30.11.25 - 9:22 p.m. | #
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My first thought when I saw the diagram entitled "Bridge Car Throw" was that there was a new James Bond film coming out and this was one of the scenes where the villain gets thrown from a car on a bridge.
Michael | 01.12.25 - 7:35 a.m. | #
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10. This year's excellent London Reconnections Christmas Quiz has been published, and you should at least get question 2 right.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.25 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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