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London has a total bus fleet of around 8.600 vehicles. There were 3,835 hybrid buses, 950 battery electric buses, and 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses as of March 2023 – so around 56%. If your observations are confined to the Central area, you will find the majority to be much larger than that. If...

Well Stellantis, the parent company of (among other brands) Citroën, Peugeot and Vauxhall has solved its problem (at least for the time being). They plan to import and sell cheap Chinese EVs to meet their quota...

You're making the mistake of applying normal business principles to public services. They don't work like that and more spending does not necessarily mean better services. In the case of the NHS, for example, it has had shedloads of additional money thrown at it over the past few years and...

Advance tickets are £22.70 (Off Peak); £25.40 (Standard); £28.10 (Peak). On the day tickets are £27.20, £30.00 and £33.60 Off Peak/Standard/Peak refers to the day of the week. I went there in the mid 1970s. There was a pay booth and I think the entry price was 25p. However, there was...

Yes I understand that. I was simply introducing it as a point of interest (or not, perhaps). Actually prior to 2006 route 5 already ran from Canning Town to Becontree (via Barking). It had done so since 1990. In 2006 it was extended beyond Becontree to Romford Market, over the route of...

The debate is not whether gender dysphoria exists (though I'm not sure that inclusion in an American text book on psychiatric disorders is conclusive proof that it does). Many people suffer all manner of mental anguish stemming from all sorts of problems and there's no reason to dismiss such...

In the 1960s route 235 was the shortest London Transport red bus route. It ran from Richmond Station to Richmond Hill (Friars Stile Road). It covered about 700 yards and was scheduled to take six minutes. I travelled on it a number of times and it rarely took more than three minutes. The route...

Yes there is a pedestrian underpass. It is about three feet wide - very cosy! I always wait for the crossing to open. :D

And from 1977 to 2015 it ran the "school train" to transport pupils to and from the Marsh Academy (formerly Southlands Comprehensive School) in New Romney.

Depends really. If you pick up a bottle of vodka from Sainsbury's, put it under your coat and walk out without paying you have committed a criminal offence. Nobody may have witnessed it; your actions may not have been caught on CCTV; there may be no evidence to bring a prosecution against you...

And of course there may be some individuals who have no people that matter to them. Would they feel "excluded" when hearing the term "you and your families"? Only if they're incredibly hyper-sensitive (which may perhaps explain why they have no people that matter to them :D )

Whilst Poole L/C is very busy, it is normally not used by vehicles as it is in a pedestrian precinct. My first thought was Canterbury.

Of course. But I would imagine if you did a poll of the reasons why people intend to vote the way they do in the next GE, you would probably find more people voting to keep those they dislike the most out, than you would find people voting to get those they prefer most in.

The problem is, that added to your answer you should append, "...nor anybody else from the pool of politicians which UK voters have to choose from". It is you and that isn't the assumption. Plenty of people have no children but they are still members of a family. In any case you are not...

Here's one: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sold-electric-car-diesel-unreliable-2979616#:~:text=There%20have%20also%20been%20alarming,has%20also%20made%20the%20swap. And another: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/motoring/motoring-news/tv-star-ditches-jaguar-electric-26017739 One...

Ah thanks! The dear old No 8. I'd forgotten that. I think you're probably right. Borehamwood was a bit out of my way and I never saw a 29 headed there. Looking at some old timetables, it seems the number of runs was very limited and those there were seemed to start from Turnpike Lane. I think...

I'm not suggesting that is the sole solution. I really have no idea what the solution is. I only know what is not the solution (to the UK having insufficient housing and infrastructure for the current population). That is not to import vast numbers of additional people. You may be fed up with...

Some of the London truncations have been mentioned. Thinking back to my "Red Rover" days, I recall a couple that haven't. No 9 ran Monday - Saturday from Mortlake to Liverpool Street. However, on Sundays it was extended to Becontree Heath, more than doubling its route length. Today it runs from...

It seems there may be three: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/angela-rayner-council-tax-police-investigation-labour-b2543726.html Of these the only one I can see the police having a legitimate interest in is [1]. I believe the Electoral Commission provides specialist advisors to...

I don't understand why the police are becoming involved in a matter which is usually the bailiwick of HMRC.