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I've seen selective door close on 73ts about twice - I used to commute on the Picc daily, although not in open sections. As an aside there were other 'quirks' such as at least one motorman who would, between every station, play about three DVA announcements. And several others would not activate...

"In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections which make society strong, also make it vulnerable". The opening lines to a film on a very different topic to covid, but it struck me...

Whilst not a NR TOC, I claim for LUL refunds every time they are applicable. They are automatically rejected if you go to another station, take another route or there is absolutely any derivation from a very straighforward example (which makes me think they are automated at that stage). It is...

South Yorkshire frequencies are lower during the peak times - the bus network has been massacred to the point that anybody commuting to a job probably drives unless they have absolutely no other option. Up north, LRT do operate a huge number of peak hour Express routes, especially out to...

A few years ago I was on the platform at Holloway Road when the football at Highbury had kicked out (rookie timing error), so the place was rammed with 'Arsenal' supporters. A tube pulled in with a 'Tottenham Hotspurs' scarf draped over the dashboard... I did fear what would happen next!

More likely to remove the need to have calibrated scales on all tills (checked daily and probably with a contract for a W&M inspector to come out every so often) - allows a saving of some time each day plus a contract cost.

A related issue (to PIS during disruption) I've experienced in the past has been that the display shows delays/cancellations for the next hour of trains to depart, followed by a tranche of correctly operating trains. People thus hang around for the waiting services, which are displayed...

I assume that the revenue from the 'value added' services (such as flavoured water, or chilled, or so on) is what pays for the original installation and the ability to offer tap water free - presumably a company runs it on behalf of the station owner.

I have arranged the running of bars in fields with no water supply whatsoever, and the licensee has always brought along a large container of drinking water, decanted into a jug on the bar, and/or bottles of water under the table to be freely given (albeit only when asked for).

Lottery tickets gain the retailer something like 10p per ticket, plus the 'footfall' generated by people coming into the shop to buy it.

I think the remnants of old signage is a separate matter to the excuse of covid for not doing x,y,z. It does surprise me that none of these firms do a regular walk-around with someone managerial, most places I've worked things like that would get picked up on and removed/replaced with more...

I remember a shop which wouldn't take cash recently, to my surprise, "because of covid". The guy at the counter said "we take any other method of payment, just not cash". I got my cheque book out...

Companies don't want you to phone them - it costs less to deal with an enquiry online, so the more they can put you off...

Speaking of announcers, Doncaster must surely be one of very few left with an actual person in that job?

Realistically, if a service that was removed "due to covid" hasn't been reinstated by now, it's most probably not happening at all. A convenient excuse though.

I was recently back around Doncaster for a few days and was saddened to see the continued decline of the South Yorkshire Joint line - Harworth branch now completely defunct, and seemingly little to no traffic south of St Catherine's Junction. With the lack of functioning pits and the costly...

I visited Wilkos at Watford Harlequin today. The entrance/exit into the Harlequin itself was closed "due to covid". Quite how covid is kept away by the closure of a connecting door is unspecified.

I would trust the understanding of science by a hospital over this forum - although I am aware that by saying anything other than 'masks don't work' I will fall out of favour here. Those adverts about groping being an offence really shouldn't be there. We shouldn't need to be telling people...

I recently stayed in a B&B which, pre-covid, I had used perhaps once or twice a year for a couple of nights. This time, in the 'bumph' in the rooms the section on breakfast had been replaced with "Breakfast - there is no breakfast due to covid" and the breakfast room had been changed over to...

Orchard Square shopping centre in Sheffield has (had? haven't been in there in a few years) one in the food court.