Recent content by Busaholic

Double decker on the 5A this afternoon, not that the extra capacity was needed!

I think the administrative enlargement of London in 1965 was the right thing. I went to work for the new London Borough of Bromley on leaving school in 1967, in the Libraries Department, and they were still engaged in the process of trying to make sense of how the previous library systems in...

I don't feel qualified to offer really up-to-date opinions, as I can no longer get to the city of my birth and first forty years, but I read very widely, look at videos etc and get 'gut' feelings about things, which doesn't make them right of course. :smile: On that basis, and given my S.E...

No, it doesn't. Having physical or mental illness may entitle you to claim Personal Independence Payment, and you may have a recognised disability as a part of that, but any necessary extra costs associated with that disability are no longer recognised as being the state's responsibility, as...

The Disability Living Allowance is only available for children, and has been since 2014. No other disability benefits have been available for new adult claimants since that time. Disability in itself no longer entitles an individual to any extra money from the state, a fact which many people are...

After my wife died I was entitled to receive as her widower most of the private pension she had built up. Like many such schemes, it was managed by Capita. The initial process of transferring it to me went well but then weeks went by. Telephone calls to Capita were answered by individuals...

That's very interesting. The 5 is a route (I'd say the route) crying out to have the now out of favour decades-long London practice of having scheduled 'short' journeys inserted into the timetable, preferably from each end of the route. It's a longer than usual route by present-day standards...

I suspect she wouldn't have got on any better than Theresa May did. Ronald Reagan was more her sort of man i.e. one she could get to do some of her bidding.

It would also mean single, rather than double, deckers on the Croydon to Sutton section. Where in Sutton would the two routes terminate?

Even if they did, they wouldn't come close to their 2010 result.

The 'support' we give now is minimal and skin deep. In terms of tanks, missiles, bullets etc this country has little of use that could be offered and we haven't increased the defence budget. Instead, we allow our arms manufacturers to continue exporting to Russia's neighbouring allies ever more...

Sloppy journalism no doubt, compounded by saying the LibDems had been whipped to support the Bill, which they hadn't. It's plainly untrue to imply that some people will be arrested for smoking, though, although maybe that's yet to come!

It'd be a big benefit. I've always been in favour of longer routes being operated by garages at or near either end, to ensure that all the route gets some service during times of disruption. It was a familiar theme of mine when I used to take part on another forum! Dead mileage is something that...

All games in the last round in both divisions were played with the Kookaburra.

That damns the idea even more!