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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 4h

1D21 now 10 mins late, finally gets the signal. Delaying 1B88

11 mins late

One missed bus

Thanks

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 4h

Oh

The freight train has now occupied the platform.

Zero information BTW.

2 @lner.co.uk trains now being delayed

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 4h

That's right. Network Rail have dumped the @lner.co.uk service outside Peterborough to allow a late running freight train to pass through.

Customer service at its best....

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 4h

For a bonus point, guess who had 10 mins to catch the bus and now will miss the bus because of the reason above?

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 4h

Let's play a game

@lner.co.uk 1D21 is being held outside Peterborough. Platform 4 and 5 are empty.

Why?

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 14h

So now 26 mins late and stationary at Knebworth as a Thameslink train has been allowed through. Should get the delay repay now mind.

Competence, my kingdom for Competence

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 14h

So after 20 mins, no reason for the delay and a platform alteration @lner.co.uk have finally bothered to arrive.

It appears @london.gov.uk however can't be bothered to fix a signal failure on day 3.

Ironically all nationalised and sadly zero customer service

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 14h

Could be interesting. The @lner.co.uk service has finally bothered and is due at 20 mins late and now the platform is now occupied by a different train

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 14h

Could be interesting. The @lner.co.uk service has finally bothered and is due at 20 mins late and now the platform is now occupied by a different train

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 14h

With thanks to @lner.co.uk for not bothering this morning. A 7 min delay now says ominously DELAYED with zero information.

Doesn't matter who owns the railway, but the senior managers MUST be 100% focused on customer.

LNER can be so much better

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 1d

So grooming gangs involving brown skinned people are an issue, but not grooming gangs featuring rich white people?

Banning away fans from a club with a known hooligan problem is anti semitic?

We arent a sensible country anymore are we?

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 2d

Could be interesting locally as I reckon Tories could lose a large number of seats in Peterborough local elections and will lose across Fenland

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 2d

A work mate lives in Kent. While not a Reform voter was open minded enough to give them a go, very scathing of their progress.

Just wait until more is known on Reforms policies on benefits etc, parties rarely attack their own core voters.

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 2d

The biggest problem a party that attracts nationalist members is...it has nationalist members

The wheels will fall off Reform Ltd when inevitably they start bickering and not delivering

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 3d

Do we honesty think Prince Andrew could wonder off without the police knowing where he was at all times. If he never had close protection, they where close by.

The police know if Andrew has misbehaved.

Covering up crimes, even for senior figures, must be an offence?

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 6d

Martin Lewis hit the nail on the head with something I believe Labour are getting wrong.

It's a myth you can spend on services and reduce taxation

I believe we would have accepted a reasonable and fair tax rise IF things got better.

It's the inequality of taxation and things not getting better

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 7d

Not my part of the county, but I assume Bedford and Cambridge are options for you to visit? Why do make the choices you do?

Bedford should be the winner, if parking costs are the obvious decider, but I feel Cambridge has the better offer ?

Disclaimer have only visited Bedford Station

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 7d

"Dislike of paying for parking"

There is no logical reason £1 would put someone off visiting yet retailers are still closing in Bedford who went the opposite way.

There must be other factors at play

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 7d

M&S in Peterborough moved to a retail park, free parking but horrendous traffic and availability on weekends and Friday afternoons. So I avoid. But would have paid £2 to park in city centre. I am put off visiting Hunstanton on summer weekend not by the high parking costs but for the same reasons

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 7d

The relationship between parking and retail is deeply complex and sadly wrapped up in other agendas. We all have a natural dislike in parking for parking, so free parking is a naturally attractive proposition. But it's deeper than simple cost. Availability will be the first issue

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 7d

There is no evidence that free parking increases retail spending. It's a case of "Correlation does not imply causation"

Out of town retail parks are busy and offer free parking

The relationship is as much about the retail offer, availability of parking, and the reasons to visit than simple fees.

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 7d

Yet another email saying i have been a victim of a data breach.

I dont think there is very much left for these companies to lose.

Makes you wonder, whats the point of the ICO as clearly none of these companies fear the regulator enough to actually protect the data.

Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 8d

Its hard to see why people drive private cars in cities such as London, who have a huge number of alternatives and compare that with our rural areas, where I believe you have no credible alternatives.

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 8d

Thats the point. Modern cars are already tracked or in theory can be tracked.

Charging those who dont have a choice less is clearly advantageous and as long as the scheme isn't a cash grab.

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Wolfie Badger @honeybadger200.bsky.social · 8d

I dont think pay per mile is automatically a bad thing for motorists, however it will need to be clever enough to support those with no alternative against those who do so for convenience.

This would involve tracking

And we lack the maturity to have that discussion

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