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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: MetroBus
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on: September 18, 2018, 12:22:50
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So Bristol Sport have announced plans to add a 4000 capacity sports and convention centre amongst other things in a new development next door to Ashton Gate. The interesting bit is that as part of it, they are proposing "an integrated transport hub to connect the Metrobus; the railway line; cycle routes and crossing sections over the Winterstoke Road". You mean the Metrobus that doesn't actually serve Winterstoke Road and that people have been told not to use to get to Ashton Gate despite the stop being named Ashton gate and it only being a 10 minute at most walk away from the stadium?
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Intercity Express Train (IET) failure, near Exeter, 13 September 2018
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on: September 14, 2018, 16:36:37
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No point sending a fitter from Exeter. They won’t know anything about the train.
Hitachi have numerous fitters in the region, including travelling fitters, the nearest available fitter would have been sent.
I wasn't really just talking about Exeter. It was more a question of: has the change to Hiatchi staff looking after / fixing the trains (as opposed to GWR▸ staff which is the case for the HST▸ 's) meant that staff who can fix issues will now take longer to get to incidents compared to similar GWR staff for HST's? 90 minutes away seems to be quite a distance away (especially when that is 90 minutes AFTER initial fault finding, so what, closer to 2 hours at least before someone even arrives on site, let alone does anything useful). |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Intercity Express Train (IET) failure, near Exeter, 13 September 2018
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on: September 14, 2018, 15:32:44
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I started a thread about this incident on an IET▸ Facebook group. There was a reply there from the Network Rail Incident Controller. I managed this incident from start to finish on a NR» perspective. Firstly the fitter was 90 minutes away after early diagnostics proved unable to fix. Single Line Working was ready to be implemented at 1825, just over an hour after after the train stopping. Upon the fitter being unable to fix it was deemed evacuation was the only solution left. The plan was to use the Fire Brigade. Their response was 60 minutes and the XC▸ Voyager to stop behind the failure and passengers detained via the Up Main cess to enable single line working to keep going. Underfoot ballast conditions prevented this so the Down Main had to be closed too. Evacuation although taking as long as it takes was the highest priority for the 389 passengers on board.
Does anyone know if the fitter being 90 minutes away was due to the whole ludicrous staff situation (where it is Hitatchi's staff who have to look after the trains, not GWR▸ 's)? If it was a HST▸ instead would a fitter been able to get there sooner (e.g. from Exeter)? |
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All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: The most incompetent Customer Service response ever?
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on: September 13, 2018, 14:01:30
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Surely the main problem here is with the BoJ▸ not being properly considered when planning the software for the ticket gate? If the barrier had understood the rules, the passenger would not have had to go through this palaver.
How would you do that? I guess for some journeys it is easy. But many journeys can be done multiple ways, and depending on which route you take, that will change if your are having a BoJ or if you have actually overrode and should be charged extra. The real problem is the staff. Gateline rules are great for the simple stuff, and then staff should be able to fill in the rest. If the staff aren't trained, or do not accept the rules, then that is the real failing. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Brizzle Arenal....where to mi babber ?
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on: September 06, 2018, 12:43:42
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I hope that any plans for Filton include - local rail access
- monorail for Mall@Criibs car parks
- central bus station for local and national buses to ensure people can get home
Or how about you put a station on the Henbury loop that just so conveniently passes right by the proposed arena site there! Of course that would require joined up thinking and actually public transport planning. By a council who have spend millions on replacing three bus routes, with well, three bus routes. |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Part of comic's scooter missing after Stansted flight
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on: September 04, 2018, 15:38:40
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Bringing this subject gently back on track and away from the school gate, I can't help but wonder if there isn't perhaps a third element in play here. Quite apart from bad luck and the poor provision for disabled persons when travelling (both of which I fully accept), isn't there perhaps a suggestion that the individual concerned, or agents acting on her behalf, might possibly be actively courting publicity? I can't help wondering to myself whether we'd be seeing quite as much of plain Ms. Davis and her travelling misadventures in the national and local news media if she wasn't also "Canadian comedian Tanyalee Davis"
I am discussing this on another forum and the same point has been made. Whilst I wouldn't think someone would on purpose put themselves in such situations just to get publicity (as was suggested on that other forum), I do think you are right in that the only reason the media are bothering to report it is because she is a comedian. But my reply to that is, so what? If someones profile means such issues are being talked about and reported, then why does it matter if she gets some publicity from it? I am sure she would have preferred to not have all these issues at all! |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Part of comic's scooter missing after Stansted flight
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on: September 04, 2018, 12:27:18
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ok, you go and stand outside a school & start taking photographs of the kids - you'll be surprised just how quickly the police will turn up & move you on.
re CCTV▸ , they probably are covered by their data protection policy in that it's necessary for security & footage only allowed to be accessed by the police.
That is more to do with the fact the police do not understand the law on photography either. There are way too many cases of police officers either telling to or forcing people to delete photos despite the fact the police simply do not have that power. Also, from a moral point of view, there is a bit of a difference between taking photos of kids whilst they are at school who you have no relation to or interaction with, and videoing kids giving you abuse because you are disabled. Oh and photographs in public have literally nothing to do with the concept of data protection. |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Part of comic's scooter missing after Stansted flight
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on: September 04, 2018, 11:29:19
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As a semi-pro photographer, one of the rules we adhere to (I think on police advice) is not to film children without parental consent.
My good lady wife works in Childcare and Rule #1 of Safeguarding is 'You cannot take/publish images of children without parental consent'. I recently attended a Safeguarding 'course' where one example given involved the image of a 'protected' child taken on an outing by another parent being published on social media. As a result, a parent of said child, who did not have visiting rights, tracked said child down through the published image.
None of that is law. Whilst in public you can take pictures of whatever the hell you like. Now, in general cases, yes it is advisable to get parental consent, but it is not required. And if the kids are acting like little toerags (like the ones in this case are) then sorry but any good will I may have to them goes out the window. What you say definitely applies to *adults*, not sure about children.
It applies to everyone and everything. Sometimes it is too easy to use the "disability card" - starting to believe there is no smoke without fire !
You messed up your quote, but I am assuming this is what you wrote. In which case, the kids and mother where specifically abusing her based on her disability. I fail to see how that is "using the disability card". |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Part of comic's scooter missing after Stansted flight
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on: September 03, 2018, 15:18:05
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Yet ANOTHER story with this lady in, she certainly finds problems when travelling
Or again, maybe ANOTHER reflection on how some parts of our "society" treat the disabled. hmmm. Over the top reaction from the mother, but, yes, you shouldn't fuilm children without parental consent unless committing serious crime.
Errr why not? Nothing in law, and if the kids are being little toerags then that is on them and the (lack of) parenting. If some little toerag is abusing someone like that, then they have every right to record evidence of it. And the mothers reaction just proves where her kids learned to act like that from. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Potential new services GWR could start?
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on: August 31, 2018, 17:21:33
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Are we actually talking about Bath to Cheltenham or to the stations on the Swindon-Cheltenham line, ie Kemble, Stroud, Stonehouse? The connections at Swindon in the reverse direction, Stonehouse etc - Swindon - Bath, are pretty poor.
I took it as froome suggesting a Bath to Cheltenham service via Swindon (presumably calling at those intermediate stations). However as there is already a direct Bath to Cheltenham, I seriously doubt GWR▸ will want to run a second along the different route. Yes the existing service is slow, overcrowded and infrequent, but the answer there is to improve the existing services. As for the intermediate stations, again surely the answer is to improve the existing connections? |
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