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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!postnews.google.com!b8g2000vbi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: TFL really thought this through Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:05:13 -0800 (PST) References: <%lIcp.54617$BQ7.4533@newsfe22.ams2> <12651ca7-7c4d-47e6-abc6-b2516367c054@p16g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 21 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 1299445513 597 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2011 21:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b8g2000vbi.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: 2399 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:801346

On Mar 6, 4:00=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > > I have managed to get TfL to refund a congestion charge.

Well I don't know the details obviously, but as discussed before, you seem to be on some "special treatment" list somewhere, which is also why you got off that council parking ticket a while ago when meager mortals wouldn't have. I don't think even you claimed otherwise. TfL et al certainly want to *appear* like they're pals with cycling organisations, which is why they don't want to alienate relatively prominent cycling people like you. (Apart from anything else they know that many cyclists are like a particularly self-righteous dog with a bone once they feel they've been wronged by someone....)

Still, it's good for you I guess, and I don't blame you for being smug about it. ;-) You gotta use what you can.  I suppose it's something of a relief that Chapman wouldn't get the same preferential treatment, since he only *thinks* he's important....

No reply from Angela Lee yet I take it? Looking forward to you posting it in due course (if she bothers at all that is....)