The availability of returns doesn't prohibit getting two singles though.

The old Severn Bridge doesn't take much traffic nowadays. Perhaps it could be repurposed with some rails?

(I'm sure it's completely the wrong sort of structure even if it carried on road traffic at all.)

So US attractions give discounts to non-US armed forces personnel? That's curious. I wonder if they'd give it to Russian forces!

On some GW^▸ (Great Western) services. On some others there's only 10p difference between return and single.

I'm all for simplification but this doesn't seem like much of an improvement to me. The simplification that is needed IMO^▸ (in my opinion) is more to do with time, particularly time of purchase, than return v single.

Unless they were fans of 1990s trip hop. 

I believe there have also been calls for railcards for ex-young persons and future old persons.

The failures and successes of electric buses in Nepal.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/electric-bus-history-kathmandu-nepal-himalayan-air-pollution/596842/

Not forgetting...
https://youtu.be/ykRZbOb1c5c

Reducing the number of permits available would tend to suggest traffic control rather than profit taking. Parkway obviously has much more taxi space than Temple Meads, and although Bath has limited space directly in front of the station entrance, I think the taxis might queue up through one of the arches to the r/hs as you look at the station.

I was thinking of the price more from the drivers' perspective than the railways': not as taking a slice of profits but as the amount drivers would be willing to pay.

One at each end of life, often!

Very small children IME^▸ (in my experience) have a natural inclinometer. They can fall asleep in any position but once asleep, will wake and initiate the aforementioned vociferous chain of events the instant they are laid on a horizontal surface. If by chance they happen to fall asleep in a horizontal position, they will wake the instant they are are raised or lowered, no matter how gently, with the same effects.

So a permit to ply from Temple Meads is only a little over half the cost of one for Bristol Parkway or Bath Spa? Strange. One would have assumed that the bigger the station, the greater the price that could be charged for the permit. Presumably Bath's tourist trade boosts its numbers (but it has a much smaller forecourt), but what about Parkway?

Wow! I'm not entirely sure I understand why that was built, but wow!

Hats off to II for considering the matter.

As a pedantic quibble, but also to clarify a possible source of confusion, he talks of "buggies" but the diagram shows what I would call a "pram". Or a "baby carriage" if you want to be Transpondian. The term "buggy" to me suggests something smaller and for a toddler or older baby who is at least sitting up, if not walking. This isn't just a pedantic quibble – the crucial difference here is that a buggy folds, prams do not (or at least not without a deal of effort). Also, whereas the pram stage lasts maybe a year at most, the buggy stage lasts several years, so there are more buggies and due to the age, probably more travelling.

I'm curious about the premise for this strike. Hadn't heard anything about it and there's nothing in the local news. What are these licences that Network Rail are cutting? I can only think that this means the Station Approach Road is NR^» (Network Rail - home page) property, not a public highway, and therefore NR can require a licence for taxis to pick up or hire from there. Is that it? If so, why do they want to reduce the number of taxis?

And what would the likely effects of a drivers' strike be? Presumably some disgruntled commuters, a bit more passengers on buses, but it doesn't seem entirely obvious to me that there would be any impact on rail operations unless the strike continued for several days, in which case regular travellers might make other arrangements.