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Barry With your London Bridge hat on, could you reveiw the balance of in and out barriers. I was travelling into London at about 18:30 and had quite a queue to get out from the barriers near platfrom 11. But there were a lot of unused barriers for people coming into the station. I suspect at that time the rush-hour has reversed - more people travelling into London rather than out. Do staff have an option of changing the number in each direction.

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.Afraid I can't make it. Going to a meeting about twitter I:)

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Blondie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The ticket machine often shows the message "out of > tickets" on a Sunday. And the permit to travel machine said pay at ticket office . Can I check that in these circumsatances you can pay at destination. On one ovccasion I.managed to by a ticket from revenue staff but other peoples experience seem less helpful.

iaineasy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wish Boris would bring back routemasters, hop on > hop off is so much easier than bendy busses Having nearly killed someone jumping off an RM between stops I beg to differ. Of course it would be his bl**dy fault if I had run him over but I would rather not have to live with the feeling of being involved in a serious accident. (I maybe slightly embelishing the story. It was some time ago but I did have to swerve to avoid him).

Britain has not become the UK. - Britain = England Scotland + Wales. - UK = Britain + Northern Island

I am confused about the reasons for the change - apart from spite on Mr J's part. One of the arguments against bendies is that fare dodging was easy because you get on at any dooor (conversley the fast load time is a benefit). But on the non bendy 521s you still can use any door. So what has changed. Then to claim the new buses are more green is fatuous if you throwing away bendies to use them. What is happening to the discarded BBs

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't edit my post on the Orchid thread (simply > want to expound on what looks like a vulgar > outburst). I thought your association of bollocks and orchids showed a great degree of erudition :)

I thought this was something to do with the Times Literary Supplement :)

Somewhere I have read that Boris is planning large increases in fares to fund his eradication of bendy buses. Can anyone point to more info on this, and do people fell he is justified in doing this.

Gimme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Traffic rules are necessary to ensure that people > don't park in dangerous or inappropriate places. > However, nobody told traffic wardens this. Traffic wardens are there to enforce the rules, not to make judgements about whether something is dangerous. If you park somewhere you are not supposed to park then it is an "inappropriate place". Of course I agree there are many instances where they tickets placest that are not against the rules.

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I nearly missed this one so I think it deserves a bump

I have slightly mixed feelings about this - before the Drawing Room was formed it was clear to me that there needed to be some seperation between the extremes of the Peckham Fire thread and the trivia such as song game and word association (both types of thread are valid but they didn't sit well together). - I felt the Drawing Room was a good idea when it started - I havent felt the confidence to start new threads on it (not sure my topics are serious enough!) - Keef's suggestion of leaving most of the lounge alone but removing the trivia threads to a "super lounge" (have I paraphrased this correctly) may have been a way forward. My feeling is we should continue with the Drawing Room now it is here. But perhaps lighten the concept of seriousness a bit and see how that goes. (edited for clarity and typos)

Bike seems the best option, (but I am not energetic enough to cycle to Kings X). Travelcard v. rail season ticket - I think it depends how much you are going to travel on journey in Z12 (other trains + tube) + any buses. If you have a travelcard then all bus journeys are free. Occassionally I have bought rail tickets and found I wanted to use tube or a bus. If you decide on a travelcard I would suggest getting an Oyster - probably easiest from a newsagent. An Oyster travelcard is valid on all Z12 rail routes. If you take a tube to say Z3 then it deducts the extra from prepay on the card. So you don't have to think about buying a ticket.

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James Thanks for posting the various ideas - I can see that there is not an easy solution. Can I throw another issue into the hat (or maybe restate it if it has already been mentioned). Is there any way in which cars travelling South and turning R into ED Grove can be forced to slow down. I was crossing the ED Grove walking southwards and a car skirted round and almost hit me from behind.

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Robyn0312 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For somebody to be released on compassionate > medical grounds I believe that they should be of > the state that they require permanent medical care > and are therefore being released into medical care > ie. a hospital or holistic hospice for the dying, > rather than into the general community. I think I would agree with this. Release should be conditional rather than absolute - if they turn out not to be as sick as previously thought then they should return. This is of course going to be harder to implement in the case of foreign prisoners such as the libyan jailed for the Lockerbee case.

I was rather suprised to find that heat was coming from the radiator behind my seat in main room. I asked a staff member and was told that if they turned it off they would not have any hot water. So get that changed. So if Foxtons are the number one on the "Green blacklist" for leaving their lights on, I would like to nominate the Clock House as number 2 for having heating on in August.