MIG wrote:

I still question whether the leisure of the majority should override
the crucial needs of the minority.

I've heard this sort of thing before but it's hard for me to understand.
People work late hours as well as early.

TfL has a very different attitude to disabled access etc, where it has to
take a clear stand on providing for minorities. They wouldn't dare do
a consultation asking whether most people would favour more frequent
buses if that meant that most weren't accessible etc.

That is not a zero-sum game in the same way. It is possible for TfL to
make all of their buses accessible. It's not possible for them to, say,
make all of the tube stations accessible, and there's been no move to
close the ones that aren't.
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Michael Hoffman