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Ringwood for the X3. The existing X3 buses are planned to go the Isle of Wight for the 7 & 12. Bournemouth overwhelmingly works the m1 and Poole overwhelmingly works the m2 but each works some of the other towards the start and end of service for sensible operational reasons to minimise dead...

GSC did a very good job when Yellow Buses went under despite having minimal notice. Blue star has always been a weaker operation than more or Southern Vectis in my experience. They have too many cross city routes which suffer from congestion leading to bunching and they have a marked reluctance...

Depends how desperate company is to get drivers to do overtime!

Rayner is indeed a Marmite person. I doubt she appeals to anyone except ardent Labour supporters (and by no means all of them......). Calling Tories scum plays well to certain elements in the party but is unlikely to attract votes from those who voted for that party last time! Who are exactly...

I can only assume that GMP feel there is sufficient evidence to warrant such an detailed investigation. I am sure Kate Green (GM deputy Mayor for Policing - AFAIK GM doesn't have a Police and Crime Commissioner like shire counties) is following it very closely, as will be Andy Burnham. I've...

I have a family which includes my children, but also my parents, my siblings, their children and so on. i am not responsible for all of them but they are all my family. Family seems a perfectly reasonable expression to encompass the people that matter to you, in the context used in the speech...

Clearly if her documentation had been fully in order, the GM police would not be spending vast amounts of time and effort crawling all over it.

I am only familiar with the Eleanor Laing example, but if they have all done what she did, there is absolutely no case to answer. She had a flat near Westminster which she designated as her main residence (quite reasonably as she no doubt spent most of her time living there given her job was...

Spot on. One or two days of overcrowding per football season is no reason to change timetables. I use XC Southampton to Reading and beyond fairly regularly during the week and it can get busy but rarely wedged before Reading, except when SWT are in chaos for some reason. From Reading northward...

Ridiculous comment. I am a lifelong Labour supporter but garbage like that irritates me. Rayner may or may not have a case to answer, but GMP don't have a great track record of investigating offences (eg grooming gangs in Oldham or Rochdale) yet appear to be taking this seriously. It appears...

Priceless. Just about sums TfGM up...

Which will change absolutely nothing. It will be the same people in DfT running the railway, doing what the Treasury instructs them to do and say. The industry will lose some good people in senior positions in the TOCs. Network Rail is a great example of the dead hand of the Treasury stopping...

We specify the requirements and seek the best value for money offering, regardless of where it is built, surely. Even Derby built trains have a lot of foreign content, and frankly the quality of some of their recent deliveries is questionable at least. I'm not sure keeping Derby open (and by...

Why do trains need to be designed and developed from scratch?

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the civilian deaths on both sides should be disregarded. It is clear that there can be no lasting peace in the region without a second state solution, and also not until Iran's malign influence via it's proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah etc are neutered. The...

Thank you for clarifying Summer Saturday only. It will primarily inconvenience passengers to Basingstoke and places like Andover and Salisbury who will need an extra change. I can also see problems with over carrying passengers for Basingstoke! Personally when I go to Bournemouth for the day...

Haigh is not bright enough to come up with anything innovative or radical.

I am Labour through and through but in fairness, he is doing exactly what Rayner would be doing if the situation was reversed. The most worrying aspect for me is that she was so stupid that she didn't get her affairs in order. I'm not sure she is bright enough to be close to government.

That's what we were told! So far, for all the hype and money spent by TfGM, there has been little or no improvement in the service delivered.

Fair enough. Bizarre allocation.