David Peek

@SimonCalder Or alternatively - as a combination of government and rail firms seemingly can't be bothered to ensure all travel tickets are checked and recorded as used, and they switch to an "assume bad faith" policy.

Rail ticket fraud. At last, a gaping loophole in the system will close, from Wednesday 1 April. Currently unscrupulous passengers buy an Anytime or Off-peak ticket, make the journey, and if the ticket isn't clipped or scanned they claim a refund, less £5. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

Facebook/Meta has now become another org that thinks it can get away with charging us a fee for our legal right to decline analysis of content & targeted adverts. For small local news sites I was willing to look the other way - but Meta is hardly small or struggling. Not on.

@seatsixtyone If these sets are only 200m rather than the near-400m length of the 373/374s, doesn't that mean they could be serviced somewhere other than Temple Mills? Wonder if ES are planning for the likelihood of being forced to share TM and build a small additional depot elsewhere?

Eurostar say they plan to maintain the entire fleet at Temple Mills in London, which makes sense if the extra 20 are ordered to expand London services, but not if only 30 are bought, primarily to replace the former Thalys non-London trains.

EUROSTAR GOES DOUBLE-DECK: Eurostar confirms order for 30 new double-deck trains from Alstom, similar to TGV-M, with option for 20 more, in service from May 2031. The 200m sets can run to/from London as 2 x 200m with 1,080 seats. (Another move in the Battle for Temple Mills...)

@seatsixtyone With this resurgence in sleeper trains, and an ambition to get the Channel Tunnel used more, do you think anyone is considering whether Nightstar (or equivalent) should be developed after all? I'd expect demand for London-Geneva/Frankfurt/Marseille & maybe Manchester/Leeds-Paris

Ambitious plans for all-private-room sleeper trains, first route to be launched in 2027. I like the look of those compartments, the demand is there, and these guys know their market: It'll be tough, but can they do it? We'll see! youtube.com/watch?v=Mqn1Fb…

@RochesterAsa @RM_Transit Why would it be that difficult? Köln, Rouen, Lille & Marseille all manage easily enough, and those are just the ones I'm personally familiar with...

@RM_Transit It’s going to be a nightmare. To be fair operating a partly tunneled partly street level LRT would be difficult for any transit agency but I expect the TTC will be particularly horrible with 20 minute waits common even at rush-hour.

I remember not long after I first moved to Toronto saying that I doubted a city that couldn't operate streetcars properly in the city center was going to operate streetcars properly in the suburbs. I feel totally vindicated in this And I'm worried about Eglinton and Finch.

@RoyalMailHelp I was not in to receive my parcel yesterday. I specified online that redelivery should be to my local post office. Why has that been ignored and the parcel instead launched over my side gate?

@InfoPropagation @RM_Transit DB (DeutcheBahn) are one of the largest legacy national rail companies in Europe, who have vast experience in frequent cross-city "S-Bahn" passenger train networks. They also run regional and intercity trains in multiple countries will beyond Germany's borders.

@RM_Transit I'm not sure what you mean by DB, but metrolinks is a corrupt pile of s*** if you've worked there or had to deal as a third party with anything they've ever done or touched you know to run, not walk away

I moved to Toronto because of the GO Expansion project, Metrolinx has now FIRED DB who THEY HIRED to take over GO and deliver us a great electric urban railway. Extremely depressing is an understatement.

@edfenergy today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. I'm guessing the text I just received about Sunday Saver should not have said "*Tomorrow*, you have [redacted] hours of free electricity to use..." or possibly should have been sent on Saturday 15th?

As many as 1,000 people are thought to have died in French Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte after #CycloneChido. 20,000 are thought homeless in Mozambique; @Tearfund plan to help rebuild a storm-damaged church that had wanted to offer shelter - listen🔊: timbre-player.sharp-stream.com/embed/item/1f3…

@goodupanddown @seatsixtyone Eurostar also have to cover much of the cost full border control facilities and staff when leaving the UK (or departing France/Belgium for the UK). The other journeys are within the EU's Schengen (invisible border) Area where border control formalities are not typically required.

@goodupanddown @seatsixtyone Eurostar pay the Channel Tunnel and UK High Speed line a high fee to use them. There's not (yet) a competitor offering passenger trains through the tunnel. Eurostar Plus (and some other UK 1st-class fares) get you a meal; most European 1st class fares simply mean a nicer seat.

Booked my return from Venice for Feb: Venice-Verona by new-gen railjet 1st class, £16.50 Verona-Innsbruck by new-gen railjet, 1st class, £35.37 Overnight stop Innsbruck-Stuttgart by ICE 1st class, £42.12 Stuttgart-Paris by TGV 1st class, £40.88 Paris-London in Eurostar Plus, £155

@sullieship @RyanDrewery @LouHaigh @SadiqKhan Two bigproblems with that: 1. not everyone is able to look up departure boards on a mobile device before going to the station. 2. It relies on the platform for any given train departure being known and listed well before it is due to leave. At Euston this almost never happens.

@RyanDrewery @LouHaigh @SadiqKhan But if you look at the data, it seems to suggest that switching to several smaller departure display areas actually reduced crowding. It's not a long-term solution, and I won't miss the massive advert display, but it appears better for now... x.com/2fast2jlggly/s…

@LouHaigh @SadiqKhan Can the screen not be used for the depature board like how it use to be? Also there is never enough seating.

@GallifreyGals ready for the special midnight (UK time) cinema screening of the series finale...

@Cameron64408384 @RM_Transit Not true. @MCRMetrolink has had Contactless for at least 3 years, I'm pretty sure all the Go-Ahead bus companies offer it, as do most private and franchised bus operators in Greater Manchester.

@RM_Transit Yes but apart from London. Nowhere else in the UK has it. It’s rediculously slow

London has had contactless fare payment on its transit system since *2014* a decade, cities which still don't have it, I hope you are reflecting on how slowly you pick up basic trends in transit.

@AvantiWestCoast on-board 1A11 from SOT to EUS. None of the prebooked seat reservations are showing on the screens. Thankfully people sat in our booked seats happy to move, but might be worth restarting the reservations system before final station call if possible?

@LeShuttle_Help what's caused today's delay? Arrived around 14:30, well before booked (16:18) crossing. Had hoped we might get allocated space on an earlier departure. I now see our allocated train won't be until after 18:30. It would help lessen frustration if we were told why!

@LeShuttle_Help your status page is lying. It just took 40 minutes to get from joining queue for French border control to being through UK Border. So many people are going to miss their booked crossings - can you at least be honest about this?

@potteriesbuses Apology is nice and appreciated, but you have not answered my question. Why is everything so delayed? I could have walked the 4 miles between origin & destination faster than taking the bus today. Tuesday's experience tells me that 15-minute delays are actually not unusual.

@davidapeek Hi, David. I'm sorry to hear that you've been having trouble with our services. We always strive to provide reliable and on-time transportation, but sometimes unforeseen circumstances can cause delays or cancellations. I apologise for the inconvenience this has caused. ^Vic

@potteriesbuses why are all your routes seemingly running 15-20 minutes late? 3 from Burslem at 16:07 after 16:20 (leapfrogged by 3a supposedly 10 mins behind). 6/6a from Hanley 15 late. Had similar experience on Tuesday morning. First time using your service, not great..