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Topic: Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station
Posted by: Michael Brandt
Date/Time: 26/02/10 10:53:00

It's no fun using the car,or a van these days. For at least 15 years it's high costs and parking fines and believe me, it piles on the stress.
But for me, being restricted by TfL was the last straw. Reliability was becoming too much of an issue over the last 12 months but getting banned from carrying my equipment after 23 years of doing so. Mad.

The car was for many years the liberator of the less well off, opening opportunities outside what was once a restricted domain. But outside of those who need a car to work it has been handed to the better off or those who want to give that appearance.
There really is no need for a stick thin 30 something to be driving a huge 4x4 in an urban area. Cars have got larger through the necessity of increased safety but even modern small cars are safer than large 'safe'cars of the past.
It's the one issue I think Ken was right about. The taxation class should include 4x4 and justifiable working vehicles. And encourage smaller urban cars including standard sized estates.

Certainly, if you work in a fixed place then as long as it is nearby, Public Transport is the best. Key to that is reliability and as comfortable as possible.
Ealing's local services are not too bad but the city to Ealing and town to town routes are failing too often.
As Londoners we have been lucky for generations because London Buses and tubes have been the world benchmark in quality and comfort. Only noticeable when compared to what was offered outside London and in other countries.
But this seems to be on the slide. Comfort is going out the window with many new bus and train designs. With trains the seats are becoming fewer.
If you want to get more people out of cars then the bus and tube has to offer at least a close comparison in comfort as a bonus to reliability. TfL have not really grasped this and in fact have let the opposite occur.


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Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 08:39:00 Eric Alan Leach
   Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 09:29:00 ajit singh
      Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 14:48:00 Arthur Breens
         Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 18:36:00 George Knox
         Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station20/02/10 22:28:00 ajit singh
   Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 20:32:00 Phil Taylor
      Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 21:43:00 Philip Coe
         Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 22:47:00 Eric Alan Leach
         Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 22:47:00 Chris Veasey
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station19/02/10 23:30:00 Arthur Breens
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station20/02/10 09:34:00 Phil Taylor
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station20/02/10 11:01:00 Arthur Breens
                     Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station20/02/10 11:43:00 Richard Jennings
                        Re:Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station20/02/10 13:41:00 Arthur Breens
                           Re:Re:Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station20/02/10 14:40:00 Libby Kemp
                              Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station22/02/10 11:45:00 George Knox
                                 Re:Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station22/02/10 14:43:00 Peter Chadburn
                                    Re:Re:Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station22/02/10 18:38:00 Arthur Breens
                                       :Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station23/02/10 01:09:00 ajit singh
                                          Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station23/02/10 16:57:00 Alan Brainsby
                                             Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station23/02/10 17:39:00 George Knox
                                             Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station23/02/10 17:56:00 Arthur Breens
                                                Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station23/02/10 21:45:00 Alan Brainsby
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station24/02/10 13:07:00 Faith Wardle
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station24/02/10 14:26:00 Peter Chadburn
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station24/02/10 15:40:00 Faith Wardle
                                                      Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station24/02/10 15:10:00 George Knox
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station24/02/10 22:33:00 Chris Veasey
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station25/02/10 18:41:00 Michael Brandt
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Short term parking at Ealing Broadway Station25/02/10 23:51:00 Peter Chadburn
      Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station16/04/10 12:40:00 Marie McLernon
         In defence of Phil Taylor (I know, I know....)17/04/10 13:18:00 Gerald Cabb
            Re:In defence of Phil Taylor (I know, I know....)17/04/10 19:39:00 Peter Chadburn
   Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station26/02/10 10:23:00 Faith Wardle
      Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station26/02/10 10:53:00 Michael Brandt
         Car for sale 01/03/10 11:38:00 ajit singh
            Re:Car for sale 06/03/10 10:12:00 Philippa Bond
               Re:Re:Car for sale 07/03/10 09:11:00 ajit singh
                  Re:Re:Re:Car for sale 07/03/10 10:29:00 Philippa Bond
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Car for sale 07/03/10 10:49:00 ajit singh
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Car for sale 07/03/10 22:51:00 Peter Chadburn
   Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station12/04/10 16:58:00 Lucy C Taylor
      Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station12/04/10 18:51:00 Peter Chadburn
         Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station15/04/10 16:11:00 Tony Colliver
             Ealing Broadway Station forecourt16/04/10 13:23:00 George Knox
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station16/04/10 17:12:00 Peter Chadburn
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station13/07/10 17:51:00 Eric Alan Leach
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Pick up and Drop Off Chaos at Ealing Broadway Station13/07/10 20:10:00 Robert Darke

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