Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Hot wheels

“We suggest, nay demand, an immediate return to the beloved, benevolent and – most importantly – low-tech Routemaster double-decker on all London routes before the city’s population is reduced to clambering to work over the smouldering remains of its transport infrastructure.”

Anyone inconvenienced by Evo conflagrations?


Categories: Memories.

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  1. strange_complex

    Hong Kong’s public transport

    In Hong Kong, where I am at the moment, everyone pays only 15% income tax. Yet, the public transport system is a dream.

    A 1.5 hour ride on a double-decker bus with air conditioning, comfortable modern seats and a TV screen playing pop videos and adverts at you costs less that one pound. You can go 2 stops on the tube (clean, fast, efficient, well-signed) for about 30p. There are attendants all over the place whose job is specifically to smile and you and help you if you get lost. And, best of all, there is a multi-purpose travel card called an Octopus card, which you can charge up with money in any 7-Eleven (of which there are zillions all over the city), which can be used on all types of buses, all local railways, all ferries, all trams _and_ even to do some other public / municipal things like going swimming.

    What _is_ it that they are getting right here that the London City Council is getting wrong?????

    Penny

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    • neilh

      Re: Hong Kong’s public transport

      That description could almost be of the Tokyo system, except that here there are a number of different train and bus networks all interleaved with each other….though I think they may be changing that soon, perhaps in the hope of gaining the kind of inefficiency we have back in London.

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