Archives for the 'public transport' Category
fishy trains
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
i wonder if i could get away with transporting myself on a train using a fish ticket.
first the worst
Thursday, February 24th, 2005
I am quite pleased with the Traffic Commissioner’s choice of penalty imposed upon First for their operation of local bus services in Bristol, as reported by the BBC. I believe this amounts to approximately half of the maximum he is able to fine a bus operator, which is determined by the number of buses operated. [...]
keep up the pressure
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
omg! Train firm goes back on bike ban… congratulations cycle campaigners!
transportdirect dot NET
Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Today the Observer ran a story about how Transport Direct gives rubbish advice. A quick google search for Transport Direct turns up a case study at microsoft.com. I find titles like Fast Development, Lower Costs and Prepared for the Future. Best quote: We have been able to do it at a reasonable cost and in [...]
pat pat
Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
from luchtzak aviation: “In response to numerous complaints from women, the U.S. government has ordered airport security personnel to avoid touching female passengers between their breasts when performing patdowns. Security screeners now will keep their hands to the “chest perimeter” of women unless detection equipment picks up the possibility that they are hiding explosives between [...]
not quite megabus
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
The client rides in one vehicle at speeds averaging 100 mph, while the other, called the “gun car”, travels close-by, looking out for potential assailants. Baghdad’s spiralling transport costs
brighton not so mega
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Last week I went to London and took the Megabus once more, this time from Brighton. The service was not particularly busy in either direction and in both cases the buses used we’re just regular Stagecoach buses rather than Megabus branded. I’ve now used this route quite a few times and compared to the other [...]
mega weekend
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
taking megabuses all the way to inverness from brighton was fun, distances etc. already calculated here. features: sitting on buses for 15+ hours makes you (me?) ache. a lot. virtually every megabus we travelled on was completely full, the national express coach to brighton (from london) had 14 passengers, a load factor or about 15-20% [...]
coming soon.. the megachallenge
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
This time next week I will have begun the megaexcurtion, the megachallenge. By this point I will have rendez-vous’d with Sarah, my accomplice, at the Greenline Coach Station in London, terminus of all megabus journeys. We will each individually arrive from our respective origins, and from there we will continue north on a megabus, taking [...]
free floating bicycles
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
after a couple of e-mails, i have learnt that both trans manche ferries and hoverspeed will allow me to take my bike (and anyone else and their bikes, in fact) for free as a footpassenger on the newhaven – dieppe route. the problem with hoverspeed is they finish for this year on sunday, but trans [...]