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October 14th 04, 07:47 PM
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TfL 70% claim - can this be true?
From the TfL website:
********************** We have not operated any Tubes on Christmas Day since 1982. There is very little demand for services as the majority of Londoners do not work on Christmas Day and over 70% of London's population leave the capital during the festive period. Limited bus services operate to/from the major airports and in central London. Please call Travel Information on 020 7222 1234 to find out more. ********************** 70% ?? Can this really be true? So London's population (being ~8 million depending how you count) drops to ~2.4 million at Christmas? Surely this cannot be true. |
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October 14th 04, 08:24 PM
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TfL 70% claim - can this be true?
"Jase" wrote in message om... From the TfL website: ********************** We have not operated any Tubes on Christmas Day since 1982. There is very little demand for services as the majority of Londoners do not work on Christmas Day and over 70% of London's population leave the capital during the festive period. Limited bus services operate to/from the major airports and in central London. Please call Travel Information on 020 7222 1234 to find out more. ********************** 70% ?? Can this really be true? So London's population (being ~8 million depending how you count) drops to ~2.4 million at Christmas? Surely this cannot be true. Perhaps they mean the working population - not just residents? |
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October 14th 04, 09:15 PM
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TfL 70% claim - can this be true?
"Jase" wrote in message om... From the TfL website: ********************** We have not operated any Tubes on Christmas Day since 1982. There is very little demand for services as the majority of Londoners do not work on Christmas Day and over 70% of London's population leave the capital during the festive period. Limited bus services operate to/from the major airports and in central London. Please call Travel Information on 020 7222 1234 to find out more. ********************** 70% ?? Can this really be true? So London's population (being ~8 million depending how you count) drops to ~2.4 million at Christmas? Surely this cannot be true. Dunno I'm never there on Christmas Day. Seriously, do you think they mean Central London? |
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October 16th 04, 08:30 AM
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TfL 70% claim - can this be true?
Jase wrote:
From the TfL website: ********************** We have not operated any Tubes on Christmas Day since 1982. There is very little demand for services as the majority of Londoners do not work on Christmas Day and over 70% of London's population leave the capital during the festive period. Limited bus services operate to/from the major airports and in central London. Please call Travel Information on 020 7222 1234 to find out more. ********************** 70% ?? Can this really be true? So London's population (being ~8 million depending how you count) drops to ~2.4 million at Christmas? Surely this cannot be true. I too am usually away at Christmas. However, when I have been here, I can't think that my street has been 70% empty. I wouldn't believe TfL statistics anyway. -- Nick H (UK) |
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October 17th 04, 03:47 AM
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"Nick H (UK)" wrote:
Jase wrote: From the TfL website: ********************** We have not operated any Tubes on Christmas Day since 1982. There is very little demand for services as the majority of Londoners do not work on Christmas Day and over 70% of London's population leave the capital during the festive period. Limited bus services operate to/from the major airports and in central London. Please call Travel Information on 020 7222 1234 to find out more. ********************** 70% ?? Can this really be true? So London's population (being ~8 million depending how you count) drops to ~2.4 million at Christmas? Surely this cannot be true. I too am usually away at Christmas. However, when I have been here, I can't think that my street has been 70% empty. I wouldn't believe TfL statistics anyway. Wow! That sounds like a home-breakers paradise! It sounds like the only people left in London would be the homeless & the police. If 70% leave, that must mean that the petrol-stations, planes, trains, tube, buses, etc. must all have a very profitable December to help all these people to get out of town. Wait a moment, those people can't take the tube or buses, their services are reduced! And in what magical way, all these people leave town needs to be studied by the gov't, so they'll have a better idea of how to clear out the town during national disasters & terrorist attacks. Where do all those people go? Maybe the people stop using the buses & tube, because there is no service! Hhhhmmmmm?! |
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October 17th 04, 05:58 PM
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Yikes !
TfL appear to have become a well of interesting,infuriating yet usually unverifiable statistics........ I remember reading one such nugget a while back which told a breathless world that it`s bus network catered for something in the region of 6 wheelchair journeys per day...... Mr Churchill may indeed have had a point when he spoke of Lies,damn lies.......and then Statistics...? |
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October 17th 04, 10:26 PM
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"Alek" wrote in message
... Yikes ! TfL appear to have become a well of interesting,infuriating yet usually unverifiable statistics........ I remember reading one such nugget a while back which told a breathless world that it`s bus network catered for something in the region of 6 wheelchair journeys per day...... Mr Churchill may indeed have had a point when he spoke of Lies,damn lies.......and then Statistics...? I am sure in this case there may be some truth that the demand for public-transport services drops hugely over the Christmas break - because most people take holiday - my office, for example, closes between Christmas Eve and New Years Day. If they'd said 70% of the working population are not at work on Christmas Day this might be an underestimate - but they didn't. As you say, interesting but unverifiable - therefore inuriating! Probably the press-officers' fault - removing sources and qualifications supposedly to make things more 'readable'. |
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October 18th 04, 12:18 PM
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TfL 70% claim - can this be true?
umpston wrote:
"Alek" wrote in message ... Yikes ! TfL appear to have become a well of interesting,infuriating yet usually unverifiable statistics........ I remember reading one such nugget a while back which told a breathless world that it`s bus network catered for something in the region of 6 wheelchair journeys per day...... Mr Churchill may indeed have had a point when he spoke of Lies,damn lies.......and then Statistics...? I am sure in this case there may be some truth that the demand for public-transport services drops hugely over the Christmas break - because most people take holiday - my office, for example, closes between Christmas Eve and New Years Day. If they'd said 70% of the working population are not at work on Christmas Day this might be an underestimate - but they didn't. As you say, interesting but unverifiable - therefore inuriating! Probably the press-officers' fault - removing sources and qualifications supposedly to make things more 'readable'. I would suspect TfL of being a highly political organisation that makes its 'statistics' prove what it wants to say, whatever they are. -- Nick H (UK) |
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November 1st 04, 05:40 PM
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TfL 70% claim - can this be true?
"Jase" wrote in message om... From the TfL website: ********************** We have not operated any Tubes on Christmas Day since 1982. There is very little demand for services as the majority of Londoners do not work on Christmas Day and over 70% of London's population leave the capital during the festive period. Limited bus services operate to/from the major airports and in central London. Please call Travel Information on 020 7222 1234 to find out more. ********************** 70% ?? Can this really be true? So London's population (being ~8 million depending how you count) drops to ~2.4 million at Christmas? Surely this cannot be true. Its no help to those of us that *have* to work Christmas Day... No Busses, no trains no LUL... And I have to get 12 miles from home to my office... Joy... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 01/11/2004 |
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