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For what it is worth. My wife was looking for a new car at the weekend. When we asked the Toyota salesman how we'd be able to turn off the Lane Keep Assist on the model she was looking at he said that was the most common question he was asked. Solution looking for a problem in my opinion.

I signal on a heritage railway and agree with this. The only times I set the signal back on the moment the train has passed are if I have got something else in section; this will usually be if I have got two engines to let out of the yard in the morning (Ok, so not technically a section), or if...

Which, presumably, nowadays gets mostly remitted to the Department for Transport / Treasury as revenue so that they can then fund Network Rail's delay compensation budget? Is so, then one has to wonder how much money is being spent to administer an utterly pointless activity. This is so...

Returning just in case anyone needs this in future. And also to thank those that contributed. To stress, I was only faced with an issue to manage because I arrived by car in the suburbs and wanted to use public transport into town. What I found was that my ticket purchasing possibilities were...

I've got a day in Leipzig next month, arriving by hire car, but planning to park it at the hotel in the suburbs and travel into the city by tram. I've downloaded the LeipzigMOVE app to my phone but it only seems to accept payment by PayPal, which I don't have, or put it on my phone bill, which I...

I certainly see the attractions in the idea. Though I have had the good fortune to have had few dealings with the welfare/benefits system myself, my wife was employed for several years as a benefits advisor for a charity, and carried on with this as a CAB volunteer after retirement. So I am...

Broadly I agree with pretty much everything said by RT4038 and Sm5. I can look back over a full working life and attest to the fact it's a formula that worked. By working overtime and studying for further qualifications while working did I miss out? - yes, but I got it back later on. But I also...

Like 43096 I'm relieved that the build up we gave it was justified by the experience. In the spirit of contributing for future readers considering the same itinerary please let me mention the Muottas Muragl Hotel at St Moritz. I stayed there based on the Man At Seat 61 recommendation, and...

I don't know if it helps, but my personal view is that if you think you are only going to do it once in your life, then if you can afford it, do it properly and get the Panorama Express (PE). You won't see dramatically more than the you'll see from the standard carriages, but it does feel a...

Marmite. They are either hated or loved. When test driving my Kuga as a replacement for my Passat, the Ford salesman was unimpressed with me saying it felt like a Fred Flintstone car because it had a handbrake. But I understand that Passat's were very rare as hire cars because, faced with an...

It's been some time since I've used it, but pretty sure it is still 'Free' to and from the car park. You do of course pay for it by a premium compared to other car parking away from T5 Terminal. But, as you say, utterly brilliant. I once arrived at T5 to find the person in the previous Pod...

One of the (few) advantages of age, is to have had the experience of being in the front of a little Lufthansa Airbus 31x and being next in line for a Heathrow night takeoff, with Concorde in front. You cannot get any closer. It was a sight, sound and body shaking experience I will never forget...

Oh, puhlese. :D Pretty much all* public transport needs a subsidy to operate pre 0600 and post 2330. Transport to and form an airport is not high on my list of deserving cases for public largesse. *I appreciate that I can rely on RailIUKforums to list all the ones which aren't.

4) Confidence in the supplier by the purchaser When GWML style cost overruns, and Crossrail style delays, stop happening, then the taps will be turned on. HS2, MML and TRU are perfect opportunities to demonstrate that lessons have been learned.

Well, I agree it is hard to provide pods after you've built the town. But that is not the subject of this speculative thread. Propostion: cars are capital and space inefficient as they are in motion a tiny fraction of the time; they are generally larger and therefore more costly than they need...

As someone who has completed the work to retirement transition I think the topic has been well covered. All I'll add is that if you are able to save some of your income in the last few years prior to your retirement, then the drop when you retire does not feel as large; as well as the reduction...

Yes, the younger sections of the population will cover a lot of their local transport needs on the segregated walk and cycle routes. Some of the older sections perhaps not so much. And everybody gets a wet weather solulution.

The way I see it, very few people will be unable to use a pod. Electric cars require licensed drivers.

Thank you for drifting this thread to to topic I was considering starting:D In a recent thread we discussed why, inconveniently for public transport, people like to live in medium density suburbs with neighbours nearby but on the other side of the fence. Instead of trying to make people want to...

I always enjoy '... and it would be a useful diversionary route' Usually tacked onto an already weak case for a re-opening or electification extension.