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    UberPool and PSV licensing

    The UberPool service, for those unfamiliar with it, allows passengers to open the app and request a shared journey; and then pairs together passengers making similar journeys at similar times to allow them both to save money. Each is charged a fare that AIUI depends on the journey they made...
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    Splitting up long services to avoid EU driving hours regulations

    spawned from discussion in http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=154581 It's quite surprising that bus operators can split bus services to take advantage of the (incredibly lax!) GB driving hours regs, even though they're greater than the 50km route length limit required for these rules...
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    NX coach stuck on Luton-Dunstable Busway

    What the hell happened here?!
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    Ireland accidentally legalises MDMA/shrooms/crystal meth/ketamine - until Thursday!

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-just-accidentally-legalised-ecstasy-ketamine-and-crystal-meth-10098612.html Wonder how many people will be snorting X off the front counters of police stations tomorrow :D
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    Man cycles out of Liverpool Street

    Services out of Liverpool Street were disrupted this morning by a trespasser cycling down the railway line and through the Bishopsgate tunnel, trying very hard to win a coveted Darwin Award...
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    BZx ticket without travelcard

    If I have, for example, a Reading to BZ6 ticket, and I would like to travel from Reading to Slough and stop short, do I need to present a travelcard if inspected?
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    Buses where the driver has a choice of route

    Hi all, I've been wondering about how many buses there are in the UK where the driver can just between two or more separate routes without missing out any stops. I can think of a two, both TfL routes: Buses on the X68, on the non-stop Waterloo to West Norwood run, might follow the...
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    Out of date routeing maps around King's Cross Thameslink

    Hi all :) Map LB, the only map of (the PDF form of the) National Routeing Guide to include the Thameslink core, has not been updated to reflect the fact that St Pancras International is now between Farringdon and West Hampstead. Instead, it shows St Pancras as being on a spur, with the...
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    Using part of an impossible route

    Hello guys, If I would like to use part of an impossible permitted route, and either break my journey, or walk the impossible part, may I do so? For example, say I would like to travel from Reading to London Waterloo along map WR, may I travel as far as Acton Main Line, walk to Shepherd's...
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    Off-peak cross London transfer

    Hi all, If I have an off-peak(/super off-peak) ticket that is valid during what London Underground consider to be the peak time, with a Maltese cross, will I be allowed to use it on the underground? Will it work the ticket barriers? Thanks very much,

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