Exciting news from state owned East Coast!
The 07:30 off the Cross to Newcastle this morning offered a new, improved, range of high density seating for priority customers.
Strangely, despite reservations being in place, these seats remained unoccupied.
No doubt the rest of the EC fleet will receive similar treatment to enable the operator to squeeze in the additional 3 million seats promised by Eureka!!!!!!!!!!!
Good news for David Cameron and his commitment to integrated transport.
Conservative Guildford Borough Council has voted to end a free shuttle service linking railway and bus stations with the town's centre.
In a delightful attempt to shift the blame for their lack of vision onto the Disability Taliban, the council claimed that free disabled and elderly travel now made the bus service unnecessary.
Other piss-poor excuses included rising fuel costs.
"It simply doesn't make sense to use public money to continue to subsidise a free service in these circumstances, especially as escalating fuel costs would make the service even more expensive than the present £90,000 a year." said Councillor Jenny Wicks.
Good to see that Dave's troops are listening to what the great man is saying.In these politically correct times it is a brave organisation that has a go at the Disability Taliban or those they claim to represent.
Fortunately in the North East they have hearts of oak and are as brave as lions!
Thus Nexus, the operators of the Tyne and Wear Metro, is threatening to sue the driver of a mobility scooter which crashed onto the tracks at Byker station causing massive disruption to the network.
Nexus is considering the move after the scooter's driver, who was not seriously hurt, "broke regulations" by travelling alone on the transport network.
In April Nexus introduced new rules governing Mobility Scooters following a spate of incidents that disrupted passenger services. As a consequence Mobility Scooters are only allowed on the network when 'accompanied and assisted by an appropriate person on foot'.
Nexus director general Bernard Garner said: "This accident demonstrates the importance of the new rule that scooter users only travel with an appropriate companion who can assist with their safety, and that of other passengers, at all times.
"We're exploring the possibility of legal action to recover our own costs associated with the disruption. The point here is that we believe the person involved was in breach of our updated conditions of carriage because they did not have a companion, and that led to an accident.
"If we cannot establish this with all scooter users then the safety risks associated with these vehicles mean we will have no alternative but to ban them." he added.
Nexus is in the middle of a consultation on the future use of mobility scooters on the Metro, a process being carried out by its own advisory body Transport For All.
The Fact Compiler understands that there is no substance to rumours that Guide Dogs found worrying trains risk being shot.
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