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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!p16g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <12651ca7-7c4d-47e6-abc6-b2516367c054@p16g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: TFL really thought this through Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 05:23:20 -0800 (PST) References: <%lIcp.54617$BQ7.4533@newsfe22.ams2> Lines: 28 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299417800 9621 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2011 13:23:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p16g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2649 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:843909

On Mar 6, 9:20=A0am, "Mrcheerful"  wrote: > TfL says because I have two keys on my account I will always have to pay > double to hire a bike > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/mar/06/transport-for-london-bike...

Sigh. This sort of thing shows that TfL are only interested in "getting people out of their cars" when it comes to punishing, persecuting and (coincidentally) extracting money from motorists; they're not interested when it comes to the "other side", i.e. spending effort or money encouraging alternative forms of transport. The nonsense above (which could so easily be sorted out given the will), insane bus/Tube/train fare rises, overcharging Oyster card holders: basically TfL have contempt for everyone.

There is no great "wonderful" masterplan for a "utopia" where everyone can easily get from A to B without cars: it's about taking what they can from people, doing as little as possible, and using whatever excuse comes to hand. Every so often, they make a token effort to actually do something positive, as with the Boris Bikes, but even those have their flaws, in particular their limited range (why on Earth aren't there any plans for docking stations in the likes of Hammersmith & Fulham or Brixton, let alone further south than Brixton, where you don't even have the Tube?)

Boris has been a big U-turning disappointment, who has no doubt been brainwashed by existing TfL idiots, although he's still better than Livingstone.