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    Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

    Brake lights come on automatically depending on the rate of deceleration, or if the brake itself is pressed.
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    Purchase of child ticket when aged 17

    No, the 16-17 railcard expires on your 18th birthday. See https://www.16-17saver.co.uk:
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    Why don't buses carry makers badges?

    I definitely remember the Silcox buses I travelled on as a child in the 80s stating Leyland Leopard on the grille and (Duple) Dominant on the side. Skip forward 15 years and Kentish Buses' new vehicles displayed Dennis Dart and Northern Counties and Countybus Paladin all dispersed on the front...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    White Rose railway station: Building work on a new railway station halted after 'unforeseen increase in costs' This was in the Yorkshire Post online on 19th March. It's been mentioned in another thread about new stations, but it seems pertinent here as well.
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    Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

    I'm going to be one of those statistics next time round. We took delivery of a Kia Niro EV on March 1st last week. So far so excellent. We're moving to Ovo Charge Anytime soon, where EV charging costs 7p per kWh. We're already averaging 3.3 miles per kWh and I expect it to do better than that...
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    School trip to London - fare advice

    Yes - I'm a chaperone for a youth band and have done 4 hr coach journeys and trips abroad. The coach journey is a doddle as they're all in a controlled environment. Anywhere where road crossings are involved, or where the group could become separated (like ticket barriers) is a potential nightmare.
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    School trip to London - fare advice

    As much as rail travel is an adventure, won't a coach be easier from an organisational point of view, especially the risk assessment?
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    GOT CAUGHT USING 11-15 OYSTER. HELP!!

    Are you saying you actively researched what the outcome might be to using the pass, even before you did so?
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    Telegraph Poles for Fibre Broadband

    CityFibre installed fibre in our estate last year in narrow trenches. But the existing poles are used to get the fibre into the house, rather than more digging.
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    Is high quality English required when responding?

    Oops. And there was me carefully crafting that post.
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    Is high quality English required when responding?

    I've noticed a common theme in many of the threads in the Disputes & Prosecutions forum: that our forum experts often suggest tweaks to the English used in responses and requests for information, even down to replacing 'American-izations'. This got me wondering if people with lower levels of...
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    Trivia: What's in a good coaching name?

    Wilfreda Beehive, from Doncaster, is an intriguing company name.
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    Best (aka funniest) Menu Descriptions

    The spreadsheet for us to choose our Christmas do menu had 'sicky toffee pudding' as one of the choices...
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    Used Child Ticket - Details Taken

    Did you ask for a 'child ticket' or just a ticket? It does seem to me that you need to start taking a little more responsibility for your actions. You give the impression that you were treating the purchase of child tickets - to which you were not entitled - as a bit of a game. You were...
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    ORR publish review of online retailer fee transparency

    The BBC have covered the story on the news site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67681277
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    What car should I buy?

    Yes - from https://www.fiat.co.uk/tipo/tipo-hatchback
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    What was your favourite bus type as a kid?

    We had mostly Leyland Leopards, and mainly on Duple Dominant bodies. Before I could properly read, I loved the word Dominant in big letters by the front door. I was fascinated by the hisses and chirps of the pneumocyclic gearbox: still sometimes make them when I'm changing down in the car...
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    Should touchscreen controls in vehicles be banned?

    The main problem with the touch screen on my Octavia is the number of times it takes a long time (ie more than a few seconds) to boot up, meaning no way of changing any HVAC settings while it brings up the screen. The car does have a few physical buttons, but some are a strange choice - I can...
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    Train crew should be required to drive between trains rather than have taxis provided

    Some questions, purely out of interest. Are taxis in this context your usual "Jim's cabs" - or even Uber - and booked as and when? Or will there be a contract with a bigger firm that generally has capacity? Will there be proper SLAs etc in place? Taxi firms don't seem to be operated to the same...
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    LNER Azuma fire at WKF

    https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/delays-at-wakefield-westgate-tonight.256092/

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