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Nationally, until recent changes started to allow councils to apply for enforcement powers (apparently a drawn out process) it was only illegal to park on pavements within the city of London. Cycle lanes, if marked out with dashed lines and not a solid one are perfectly legal to be parked in.

Point of reference. They aren't the first fully electric buses to be used in service in Sheffield. Once again SCC/Miskell telling fibs to make them look good.

I do a lot of driving for work in and around Sheffield. The problem with the lights is that they aren't sequenced in a sensible manner.

Or blindly voting how their community leaders tell them to..

Climate emergency but then replaced all the static ad boards with larger electronic ones..

https://www.firstbus.co.uk/south-yorkshire/tickets/tap-tap

Again. The units are placed as close to the front doors as possible. The layout of the bus limits this placement however the units themselves are hardly inconspicuous, do you need them to be lit up by flashing neon lights? Passengers getting on whilst you're attempting to get off is a passenger problem, driven by people's poor, selfish behaviour. I have seen driver's challenge such people before, telling them to let people off first. (it's also an issue I come across on trains/trams) This falls into my view that if SY wants better transport then passengers themselves need to do better.

When I say TOTO is on EVERY First S Yorks bus, it's on EVERY First SY bus. The primary ticket machine is capable of both ON and OFF tapping, a redunancy built in for the event of the secondary unit failure. Some secondary units have failed or been vandalised and are being replaced. Placement of the secondary units, whilst you are correct that they're not always in the same location, is due to the vehicle type and layout. Notably a lot of the single decks have the unit on the cab wall due to there being a seat row by the saloon entry/exit doors. I'm sure, as a passenger you wouldn't want other reaching over you to access the unit. Mounting the unit on the cab wall of double decks isn't possible as it would encroach too much into the walkway. They cannot be flush mounted in the stairwall due to the fuel/adblue tank behind it. IIRC Stagecoach have been encouraged to join TOTO however the cost is significant as they would have to completely replace their ancient ALMEX ticket machines, back office equipment etc.

"At arm's length", meaning politicians get to distance themselves from it when it all goes pear-shaped despite being their doing.

Only First offer Tap On/Tap Off and this is on EVERY vehicle on EVERY route. TOTO is the system that London has switched to and replaces Oyster. No need for a separate card that you need to top up. If Southerners can figure it out, why can't we?

Isn't that all a bit "15min city" ish? ....

I saw all 4 of them, in convoy on the Parkway just before Park Square last Thursday on my way home about 2pm. Presumeably they'll live where they've been storing the diesel van/buses. I also hope that the drivers are all Polish, since the new charge points in the Interchange only have Polish instruction stickers on them

Came here to post exactly this so I will add this. There's an army of around 11,000 people in this city that could do this. Requiring them to do 1 day a week on public/community projects like this would see a massive societal benefit. Who are these 11,000? JSA claimants (figure from Sept 2023)

Cyclists make up around 1.3% of non-motorway road traffic during the timeframe you mention. Using the statistics in the way you have is disingenous.

TBH most of the "cycles" I see tearing around the city centre are illegal e-bikes. Either home-brew built with unregulated chinese kits or legitimate e-bikes that have been illegally modified. Both exceeding the power/speed limitation regulations. They're very easy to spot, the rider generally has a takeaway delivery rucksack on their back. But as is the norm now in South Yorkshire, crimes are ignored by SYP if it means getting out of the car/van....

Disabled people get ESA/JSA like others. The difference being they also get additional benefits. Again, that's for another discussion. Back to Coppard and his ill-fated plans..

Ah the old "I'll repeat what I've already said because I have no further argument." defence. Now go back to the post you quoted and try REALLY hard this time.

If a protest intimidates anyone from going about their lawful business then, under the law, the protest loses it's 'peaceful' status and the police are duty bound to intervene. They didn't in this case therefore they have failed, BY CHOICE, not to uphold the law and should face dereliction of duty charges.

This is exactly why Universal Income is a bad idea, Welfare should ALWAYS be below minimum wage thresholds But that's a debate for another thread.

So it's fair on all taxpayers then, we all pay equally. Why should someone who's doing well financially and most likely to be someone who least uses public transport & already pays more in income tax to provide for those who pay little or even nothing, pay the most towards it whilst those statistically most likely to use it pay the least? Let's imagine you're earning 100k, you're in the supermarket and at the checkout there's someone in front of you, by sheer coincedence they have EXACTLY the same products as you. Their total comes to £50. Now your turn, all your items get scanned and your total is £175. You ask why and the cashier says "You earn 100k, they earn 18k so you pay more to cover the cost of the lower prices for those earning less"

Far from being in a hole sweetcheeks. Just coincedence that all 3 accounts have the same backstory then. Gotcha.

Well I was the management trainer . Yes there was part of the training that dealt with difficult patrons that mentioned taking what you were being told with a pinch of salt. Upset patrons often embelish or stretch the truth. Sometime not on purpose, it's just a trait of human nature. However I'm not here in a professional capacity therefore free of any contraints and fully able to call BS when it's presented, which is pretty much every post Amber Leaf/LovePotion/Irene submits.

You were as much a transport worker as the cleaners. You present yourself as though you were in high regard in the upper operational management. You're literally a Walter Mitty of the transport industry and you're an embarassment. I mean going back 4 YEARS for an old email, probably the last one you got before your subs expired is pretty desparate. Oh and I know what RMT stands for, as well as ASLEF and TSSA. RMT also has a public transport sector (buses etc) although Unite does that transport sector mostly.

Your T-key was literally just to give you access to crew areas. Nothing more. Let's take your list one by one Ramp safety - Yes. Previous employment including safe working loads. Mangement trainer. Trolley safety - Probably similar to rack-server movement, sometimes weighing upto 300kgs (47st) Boiler/hot water safety - Yes, previous employment, Restaurant industry during Uni, Management trainer. Food prep, drinks - See above, Management trainer Difficult patrons - Management trainer in this area also Stock ordering and rotations, see above So yeah, think I have a great knowledge base in order to know you're talking out of your backside 99.9% of the time.

You pushed a sandwich cart on a train. You know NOTHING of the transport industry beyond that. Myself and many other posters have proven this time and time again, people that either formerly work in the transport industry or currently do. Everything else you've said in the post above was said by one of those people in previous posts which you've just parroted. Here's an English lesson, Busy is synomynous with Peak when referring to time. I'm glad you don't lecture me on laying carpets, like transport you don't know the first thing.