Kev wrote:
Dave Newt wrote:

So why did you say you want water in bottles banned from the tube?

Probably because the majority of the bottles aren't refills. Can't you
take a bit of light hearted banter.
I find it rather amusing the way people take bottles of water on trains
as if they are going on some sort of expedition.


They might be of course 8-).

In my case, I have usually spent several hours in a dry court room,
often with a dry judge, and often with me doing a lot of talking. I'm
usually very dehydrated indeed on the way home and do carry water with
me to help rehydrate myself. Needless to say its Thames Water out of my
tap -- surely you have no objection to that?

Francis

wrote:
Kev wrote:
Dave Newt wrote:

So why did you say you want water in bottles banned from the tube?

Probably because the majority of the bottles aren't refills. Can't you
take a bit of light hearted banter.
I find it rather amusing the way people take bottles of water on trains
as if they are going on some sort of expedition.


They might be of course 8-).

In my case, I have usually spent several hours in a dry court room,
often with a dry judge, and often with me doing a lot of talking. I'm
usually very dehydrated indeed on the way home and do carry water with
me to help rehydrate myself. Needless to say its Thames Water out of my
tap -- surely you have no objection to that?

Francis

Non at all, I was being flippant with the bottled water comment but I
do feel strongly about the waste aspect of carting it across Europe.

Kevin

Kev wrote:
Non at all, I was being flippant with the bottled water comment but I
do feel strongly about the waste aspect of carting it across Europe.

Most of it is from England, Scotland or France. Hardly "across Europe".

Kev wrote:

Dave Newt wrote:

So why did you say you want water in bottles banned from the tube?

Probably because the majority of the bottles aren't refills. Can't you
take a bit of light hearted banter.
I find it rather amusing the way people take bottles of water on trains
as if they are going on some sort of expedition.

Kevin

At the weekend - and especially in the summer, but also throughout the
year - I'm often out and about in London town for several hours or
whole days on end, and leave the house without necessarily having an
overall plan for the day. So I'll put a refilled bottle of water in my
bag. I've no desire to spend money acquiring water if I can avoid doing
so (let alone sweet fizzy drinks), and like other posters here I object
to the waste caused by bottled water.

The railways and (slightly less so) the Tube are missing a trick with
newspapers, free or otherwise, in that they get picked up as rubbish.
Why not put a clearly-signed plastic newspaper rack in each vestibule
(perhaps facing the seats on the Tube so it doesn't get in the way of
standing passengers) and encourage passengers by way of notices and
announcements to leave any unused newspapers in the rack for another
person to read?

Tidier, more environmentally-friendly, good passenger service and would
cost next to nothing.

Neil


Better still if the peasants could take their free comix with them and
dispose of them like grown-ups