please empty your brain below

Think of the savings that TfL could make if they had not been forced to employ people to9 answer this drivel by Blairs' poorly written legislation.
27 eh? Now there is a challenge.
How do mice living in tunnels know when its night?

Once you have tuned in your eyes, the mice are relatively easy to spot (they are the same colour as the ballast - but unlike the ballast they move) and seem to be active all the time.
The number of CCTV cameras excludes those on trains
Geoff Marshall and friends did 25 buses in an hour. [video]
I only want to add my foray into TfL FOI... whatdotheyknow.com/request/identification_of_a_road_sign_on
On the quad royal business, TfL look rather daft offering a jpg file in reply to a request for something lossless. Any fule no that.

However, the requester may have been satisfied nonetheless if the file was big enough to be essentially free of compression artefacts.
Dante: "Twenty-seven! My girlfriend rode twenty-seven buses!"

Customer: "In a row?"
scrumpy - FoI is a reasonable cost of living in a democratic society. We're only part of the way there -- look at the fight a few years ago over MPs' expenses.
It seems to me the specific District line service is timetabled to be late! I wonder why this (peak hour-related effects?) has not been taken into consideration when arranging timetables in the first place.
The District line train question is rather pointless, isn't it. What is important is the gap between trains and the time you have to wait on the platform. If the train you catch is on schedule or running late is of no interest to passengers providing the gaps between trains are not too long.
Rather than knock Tony Bliar for introducing FOI, I'd prefer to complain about his reported much later comments that he regretted doing so.
I can honestly say the thought of asking if tests for Anthrax in the walls has been done, has never occurred to me!
Though to be honest I'm usually more preoccupied with whether I'll get a seat or not!
I do like the frothy Nimby FOI request. Obviously made by "Angry from Alperton" on day release...
It's been quite a while since I was involved in installing customer information systems at a number on major London stations, but I distinctly recall one building being nicknamed Anthrax House, on account of the horsehair in the old plaster.
I believe there were restrictions on building works, similar to where asbestos in present.
Annoyingly, I can't recall which building, though I have a vague feeling it might have been part of Kings Cross...
Rob
RE: 27 buses on a single hopper/Geoff Marshall video

We rode 25 buses within the hour, and I clocked up a 26th bus off camera in the ten minutes spare (which took us away from the middle of Camberwell towards Elephant and Castle). I'd be curious to know how 27 was hit...
The reference to “the Horse Hair Act” passed in 1908 seems to derive from an aside in a World Health Organization publication. It was regulations signed in 1907 (under the Factory and Workshop Act 1901) which took effect in 1908, requiring the disinfection of horsehair imported from China, Siberia or Russia. According to Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone (younger son of the former PM), the risk from British horsehair was only “very slight”. The regulations were metricated in 1980 and revoked in 1988.
For buses within the hour, one could always jump off the bus before it has departed, but after you've tapped in.

(Presumably doing so is not normally illegal, as you may have suddenly remembered an urgent reason to go somewhere else).
Theorangeone: if you had continued at your hour-record pace through the ten-minute grace period, you might well have been able to get 27 (or well past it) yourself, and my guess is that 27 is the 70-minute record rather than the hour record.
Yep, I'm sure if you wanted to cheat the hopper high score then 27 could be beaten quite easily at a reasonably sized bus station by jumping off buses before they leave.

Drivers may be bemused but it's not going to be illegal!
For the 27 bus hopper I'm sure if you wanted to actually do it while riding a bus you could do it down Oxford Street or somewhere with similarly very regular buses. You would just need to go one stop cross the road catch a bus in the other direction and repeat.
That's how the Geoff Marshall / The Orange One (comments above) did it in their video, except Oxford Street would not be a good choice as traffic moves so slowly - it would take a long time to travel one stop. They did it on the Walworth Road. where traffic flows more freely.










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