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diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.05.26 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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13) TfL really should (maybe have already?) discuss including the right to sell the audio files - probably through the LT Museum - when they agree the contract with their suppliers. It would probably push the contract price up a bit but might make that back in sales and would help deal with these requests.
Andrew S | 31.05.26 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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9) Replacing a bollard that frequently (roughly four times every five months) seems somewhat wasteful. Are many other bits of road furniture replaced on an almost monthly basis? I wonder if there may be a more permanent solution.
Andrew | 31.05.26 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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14) and at least one countdown sign deployed for years in a closed bus stop and is therefore non productive, and really should be elsewhere. For some of that time it was powered up.
It has been pointed out.
(Adelaide road, Swiss Cottage; the bus stop was briefly moved there from outside the nearby library due to building works that started then went into a long abeyance over disputed affordable housing, maybe now resolved)
MilesT | 31.05.26 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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5) It was always envisaged that the congestion charge would be profitable and the money made used to subsidise the buses (as stated in the response). ULEZ across all of London as implemented by the Mayor was/is expected to cost more to implement than revenue gained in the next few years and, despite what people claim, was never intended as a money making exercise. It will be interesting to see what the future of ULEZ will be. If certain parties came to power they would probably scrap it but I doubt if supporters of ULEZ would be that bothered. By then it would have largely achieved its objective.
10) Harlesden almost certainly because of lack of space for a second one. It was the last ticket office to close for this reason. Roding Valley - well we all know why that is.
Pedantic of Purley | 31.05.26 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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1. Whenever I see a qualifier in bureaucratic text I wonder "why is that there?" For example in "The Mayor of London has no personal exemption from the Congestion Charge" the qualifier is "personal" and leads to the question whether they have any *other* type of exemption.
Andrew | 31.05.26 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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(7) I fear your definition of "bolx" is inexorably widening. If I remember right, you originally coined it for advertising puffery about some flats. This latest example is just a single, admittedly statistically dubious, entry in a table.
(13) I agree with Andrew S; failing that, they should at least just publish them on the website like the working timetables.
Anonymous | 31.05.26 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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I can't see how the mayor could be exempt from congestion charges according to the published list. I cannot see how a mayoral vehicle, if he has one, would be exempt though 'operational vehicles' such as a police car in which he was riding would be.
The response makes it quite clear why the word 'personal' was used. If riding in a police or other operational vehicle the vehicle is not assigned to a person but an organisation and it would be the organisation that was exempt not the individual. Reading the response and the simplest of google searches should make this all very obvious.
Pedantic of Purley | 31.05.26 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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(3) baffled me for a rapid entry and exit regarding high charges until I found this: Fare evaders would tap into the station so the gates would open, enter, immediately turn around and tap out but not exit so the fare was refunded, then ride the Tube without paying. Simples...
Nick K | 31.05.26 - 2:27 p.m. | #
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20. I'm flabbergasted that 6 people thought to reclaim them!!
That's 6 more than I would have thought!
Cornish Cockney | 31.05.26 - 7:13 p.m. | #
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20) Might have been one person who lost six.
Bob Walker | 31.05.26 - 8:53 p.m. | #
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20 - I wonder if any were 'mint in box'.
Trevor S | 31.05.26 - 11:09 p.m. | #
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14) Judging by how my Streetcare requests for Countdown signs get automatically closed (as they lapse after a certain time automatically) without being fixed, I doubt that it is an accurate number.
matthieu1221 | 31.05.26 - 11:53 p.m. | #
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17) A tiny fraction of that is me - I once walked it, it was 10 years ago, and never again - I can still taste the fumes!
Steve
Steve Conway | 01.06.26 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Does life get any duller than this?????
pleebrat | 01.06.26 - 8:35 p.m. | #
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