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I find the Witham - Billericay buses to be quite generously timed (depending on traffic on the A12). Once you add on the large amount of time allowed for a connection despite the easy access to the platform from the bus stop, I've found that in practice it's not that uncommon to be able to catch...

As someone who is often on one of those other trains, I can confirm that they are, and increasingly so!

The user group seem not to like it however:

I suspect you have already identified the fire behind the story, i.e. Getlink's recent announcement about wanting to increase use of the tunnel and boost competition. The article frames it in that context and it makes perfect sense that the DPA (German news agency whose article has been...

No problem. To be more precise it basically works in the same way as TfL. TfL or STIB authorises and places a hold on an amount (£0.10 or €7.50 respectively) when you tap, calculate the amount actually due at the end of the day and charge that. It's just that TfL revises the amount up and STIB...

You do.

Your surprise is well-founded: it simply isn't true. The Express is showing its customary disdain for its readers and I continue to be surprised that anyone relies on anything it publishes. This is how the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported the same announcement by the Greek government - no...

I've not had a chance to look closely at all these donations, but it's worth noting that what is classed as a donation is quite broad. To give one example, I was recently surprised to see that a local art gallery had apparently made a donation to my MP according to some data highlighted by the...

The planning application for the redevelopment has now been published. Doesn't look like there have been any major changes from the consultation, but there are now floor plans so it's much easier to understand what is being proposed. This article by Building Magazine has a good collection of...

Greater Anglia have confirmed that they are checking stations following concrete falling off the multistorey car park at Colchester station, though initial checks suggest this doesn't contain RAAC. This morning the upper storey and the parking spaces underneath were taped off, though access...

I'd like to be doing my part and transferring some money from my employer's coffers to the railway, but the ongoing industrial action is making this hard. There's an event on Friday I realistically can't get to and I'll be pulling out of. My attendance at that was more of a nice-to-have, so I...

Yes, I would agree with that (though I think it's fair to approach an MP if you have exhausted all formal processes - having to write to an MD shouldn't be necessary). I just didn't think the OP should rule it out as a future option if Northern completely fail to engage with the issue, attempts...

Interesting that that's your view. I work for a highly regulated business in another sector and see our responses to complaints and queries from politicians relating to their constituents. I think the value of writing to a MP if one's own attempts to resolve an issue have failed is less in...

In 1960 Manchester London Road station was renamed Manchester Piccadilly. It's easy to find out that this happened following some redevelopment work and clearly there were a lot of changes to Manchester's railway network happening at around this time, but what I'm struggling to find out is why...

True, but I've not had too many problems (admittedly my requirements tend to be fairly straightforward domestic flights) and it's still less painful than actually having to use the booking interface! Which, to return to the thread title, is the biggest con of the platform my employer uses.

Weirdly, the booking agent we use says that, due to a dispute between the system they use and Ryanair, we may get an email from Ryanair warning that the booking has been made through an unauthorised agent and gives instructions on what to do if this happens. So far I haven't had to worry about...

My employer would let me claim expenses or use a company card for things not available via our booking portal - a different provider to those you mention (which if I remember correctly only covers National Rail and Eurostar services, flights and hotels, and possibly also ferries and car hire)...

Again, and perhaps this is getting a bit off topic for this thread, but I'm not sure I agree. For example, the imperial apartments at the Hofburg are, honestly, not that special - there's a reason they are heavily themed and marketed around Sisi and Franz Joseph. There are plenty of monarchs...

But you'd still have the royal palaces and the tourism without the monarchy. Austria, for example, must bring in a lot of tourist revenue off the back of the Habsburgs and their palaces, long after the last Emperor was removed. Indeed, the end of the monarchy has made their palaces and...

The colours look rather faded (I assume the pink was red originally) - even if the fencing is new at that location, I suspect the sign has been attached to it for some time now. Most likely that it hasn't registered with the contractors that it's still attached, or they can't be bothered to take...