On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:01:51 +0100, Steve M
wrote:

I'm sure 100+ people could, due to freak circumstances,

Such as a National Rail train arriving?

turn up within 5-10 minutes at Walthamstow, but LU can't (unfortunately)
afford to have an endless supply of buses ready and waiting just in case
this happens. A lot of effort goes into planning rail replacement
services and I think, most of the time, they get it right, or not far
off.

The lack of tube services made it onto Test Match Special yesterday, with
at least one commentator arriving late.

It's hard to plan for everything, but major sporting events are easy to
predict and plan for.

Colin McKenzie



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