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« Reply #300 on: November 04, 2021, 14:29:17 » |
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From today's Parliamentary Transport Questions Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
In Bath, we are still waiting for the full electrification of our lines, so perhaps the Minister will take that on board too. The direct line from Oldfield Park station in Bath to London Waterloo will be cancelled in December. Will the Minister reconsider these service cuts, which will make travel into south London nearly three times more expensive for my constituents and force them to use the underground while covid cases are rising?
Chris Heaton-Harris
On the hon. Lady’s last point, using the underground—and other trains—is one of the safest methods of transport in the covid pandemic. I believe that the air on the underground is exchanged every three minutes, and on trains every six minutes. They are perfectly safe. She referred to the consultation that has just finished on South Western Railway services, and she is quite correct: passenger numbers on that service are remarkably low. I will happily meet her to go through that, and we can talk about how we can improve those services. |
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« Reply #301 on: November 04, 2021, 14:37:36 » |
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From today's Parliamentary Transport Questions Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
In Bath, we are still waiting for the full electrification of our lines, so perhaps the Minister will take that on board too. The direct line from Oldfield Park station in Bath to London Waterloo will be cancelled in December. Will the Minister reconsider these service cuts, which will make travel into south London nearly three times more expensive for my constituents and force them to use the underground while covid cases are rising?
Chris Heaton-Harris
On the hon. Lady’s last point, using the underground—and other trains—is one of the safest methods of transport in the covid pandemic. I believe that the air on the underground is exchanged every three minutes, and on trains every six minutes. They are perfectly safe. She referred to the consultation that has just finished on South Western Railway services, and she is quite correct: passenger numbers on that service are remarkably low. I will happily meet her to go through that, and we can talk about how we can improve those services. What question was that an answer to? |
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« Reply #302 on: November 04, 2021, 14:43:14 » |
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Mods: May I suggest that this deserves a topic of its own under "Wider Picture"? Good idea. I have created a new topic at http://www.passenger.chat/25633 to look at wider cuts |
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« Reply #303 on: November 04, 2021, 14:45:01 » |
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From today's Parliamentary Transport Questions Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
In Bath, we are still waiting for the full electrification of our lines, so perhaps the Minister will take that on board too. The direct line from Oldfield Park station in Bath to London Waterloo will be cancelled in December. Will the Minister reconsider these service cuts, which will make travel into south London nearly three times more expensive for my constituents and force them to use the underground while covid cases are rising?
Chris Heaton-Harris
On the hon. Lady’s last point, using the underground—and other trains—is one of the safest methods of transport in the covid pandemic. I believe that the air on the underground is exchanged every three minutes, and on trains every six minutes. They are perfectly safe. She referred to the consultation that has just finished on South Western Railway services, and she is quite correct: passenger numbers on that service are remarkably low. I will happily meet her to go through that, and we can talk about how we can improve those services. What question was that an answer to? Dunno - not the one that Wera asked! |
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« Reply #304 on: November 04, 2021, 15:53:08 » |
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From today's Parliamentary Transport Questions Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
In Bath, we are still waiting for the full electrification of our lines, so perhaps the Minister will take that on board too. The direct line from Oldfield Park station in Bath to London Waterloo will be cancelled in December. Will the Minister reconsider these service cuts, which will make travel into south London nearly three times more expensive for my constituents and force them to use the underground while covid cases are rising?
Chris Heaton-Harris
On the hon. Lady’s last point, using the underground—and other trains—is one of the safest methods of transport in the covid pandemic. I believe that the air on the underground is exchanged every three minutes, and on trains every six minutes. They are perfectly safe. She referred to the consultation that has just finished on South Western Railway services, and she is quite correct: passenger numbers on that service are remarkably low. I will happily meet her to go through that, and we can talk about how we can improve those services. What question was that an answer to? Q: What is the most irrelevant and uninformative answer the Minister can invent while still mentioning trains? A: See above. |
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« Reply #305 on: November 04, 2021, 18:02:58 » |
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Q: What is the most irrelevant and uninformative answer the Minister can invent while still mentioning trains?
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« Reply #306 on: November 05, 2021, 18:26:17 » |
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« Reply #307 on: November 05, 2021, 21:21:07 » |
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Good work, Mark (and Callum if you are reading this - thank you!) |
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« Reply #308 on: November 06, 2021, 05:39:08 » |
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From the Swindon and Wiltshire LEP» and Western Gateway web site - ((here)) - support. Document is in public but says "ONLY DISSEMINATE WITH PERMISSION OF THE SWLEP" so I am providing only the link. My understanding is that members may quote short sections of documents that have been released in public for review and comment within copyright rules - but I am not a lawyer and anyone quoting should be careful. |
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« Reply #309 on: November 06, 2021, 09:04:18 » |
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 (Daily Telegraph today) As one dog appears to carry more weight than 5,314 humans do (so far) with SWR» , can we find any canine season ticket holders on the Temple Meads to Waterloo service ? Even Grant Shapps has sided with the dog !! |
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« Reply #310 on: November 06, 2021, 12:12:54 » |
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As one dog appears to carry more weight than 5,314 humans do (so far) with SWR» , can we find any canine season ticket holders on the Temple Meads to Waterloo service ? Even Grant Shapps has sided with the dog !!
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« Reply #311 on: November 07, 2021, 06:52:02 » |
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To be fair - there IS a petition running and having hit national media it's doing well. As it's on change.org rather than the government site, comments can be added and I will share some as they show a bit of a parallel with us ... We daily see various companies and organisations within Britain's fragmented railway industry, which ought to be burnishing its credentials as by far the greenest way of making all but short local journeys, and doing everything in their power to get folk back into trains following the disastrous effects of Covid, shooting themselves in the foot with all sorts of crass and ill-thought-out actions. This, however, takes the biscuit (no pun intended). For goodness' sake, South Western Railway, and parent company First Group, what planet are you on? This is politics out of touch with the needs of human beings - shame on SW trains! Utterly ridiculous decision and totally out of tune with the general public. In overnight ... copy of a what seems to be a "cut and paste" response from the DfT» to another MP▸ for forwarding to his constituent, telling him that if he want to travel to London in future he'll need to change at Bath, Westbury or Salisbury. Constituent lives in Basingstoke ... |
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« Reply #312 on: November 07, 2021, 08:09:52 » |
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« Reply #313 on: November 07, 2021, 14:30:35 » |
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I have been asked "what else can I do to help?" and one of the answers is "write to your MP▸ ". But then people ask "what should I write" and "what is their address?". The form below helps you generate a sample letter that you can cut and paste, and tailor further if you wish. It's really good to add personal comment about what the service means to you to the base letter". Any questions - I'm happy to answer. I will be sharing this to social media later today, so please (readers here) have a play and please let me know of any issues. http://www.passenger.chat/mpletter.html |
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« Reply #314 on: November 07, 2021, 15:28:48 » |
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What's the final date by which a decision on these services has to be made?
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