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Drinking ban applies to the bus and DLR as well as the tube

Maggot

Maggot

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I only just found this out. Everyone knows about the imminent drinking ban on the tube, but it wasn't until a news report this morning that I'd heard it also applies to the bus and DLR.

I don't travel on the tube that often, but use buses quite frequently. Has this been kept quiet, or have I just not noticed it?

Bus party anyone?
 
They are going to do it on trains soon too. Not sure how they are going to do the cut off period - "We are about to pass into greater london where it will be illegal for you to consume alcohol on this train, if you have bought an alcoholic beverage with you on your journey, or from the buffet car or the buffet trolly please stop consuming it in . . . . 3. . . 2. . . . 1. . . . NOW!"
 
I don't think the train companies will agree to ban alcohol on long journeys, cos they make a lot of money from it.
 
IIRC there was some suggestion that the government were considering a national alcohol ban on public transport.

I'm sure that'll go down beautifully with the train operating firms making a healthy profit from flogging cans of warm, nicely shaken lager at £2.50 a pop from the buffet car...
 
£2.50? And the rest - I pad £4.50 for a can of lager and a big packet of crisps last week.

I agree with the ban on bus drinking though.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
They are going to do it on trains soon too. Not sure how they are going to do the cut off period - "We are about to pass into greater london where it will be illegal for you to consume alcohol on this train, if you have bought an alcoholic beverage with you on your journey, or from the buffet car or the buffet trolly please stop consuming it in . . . . 3. . . 2. . . . 1. . . . NOW!"
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It would proberbly only be on local trains- although in the US you proberbly get situations like this on long distance trains as these things vary by state- a lot.

As for the ban on buses, I can't see what the fuss is all about and I'll bet 99% of people outside the capital agree. Drinking on buses has been banned in most places for some time, if it was ever allowed to begin with..........
 
tbh, i never drink on the bus or the tube, but long train journeys, i do like to have a can or two
 
Roadkill said:
IIRC there was some suggestion that the government were considering a national alcohol ban on public transport.

I'm sure that'll go down beautifully with the train operating firms making a healthy profit from flogging cans of warm, nicely shaken lager at £2.50 a pop from the buffet car...
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Glad that public transport is being given such considered attention.

Boris's first move really did mark him as a waste of space.
 
Poi E said:
Boris's first move really did mark him as a waste of space.
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Nonsense, he's instituted measures to re-phase traffic signals (presumably to the way they were before Ken had them "adjusrted" to generate "congestion") - good for you Mr J.
 
Cobbles said:
Nonsense, he's instituted measures to re-phase traffic signals (presumably to the way they were before Ken had them "adjusrted" to generate "congestion") - good for you Mr J.
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Please let us know of any areas where congestion has decreased due to these measures. If you find any I'll give you a prize.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
What about short journeys on Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow Express?
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I imagine alcohol can still be bought from buffet cars. Imagine the ban more to do with people drinking from cans, bottles etc. Personally I think it is very poor form to drink on buses and tubes. It looks really tacky and as though the person doesn't give a stuff about anyone else.

Also, I imagine a lot of the folk drinking on public transport would have a right fit if anyone suggested they had a drink problem, yet drinking on public transport to get from here to there (lets face it, no journeys are excessively long) suggest some who has all their priorities wrong.

To sum up, I despise the selfish inconsiderate losers who drink on public transport. :D
 
Homeless Mal said:
I imagine alcohol can still be bought from buffet cars. Imagine the ban more to do with people drinking from cans, bottles etc. Personally I think it is very poor form to drink on buses and tubes. It looks really tacky and as though the person doesn't give a stuff about anyone else.

Also, I imagine a lot of the folk drinking on public transport would have a right fit if anyone suggested they had a drink problem, yet drinking on public transport to get from here to there (lets face it, no journeys are excessively long) suggest some who has all their priorities wrong.

To sum up, I despise the selfish inconsiderate losers who drink on public transport. :D
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Well why don't we impose a fucking dress code while we're at it?

Fucking prick.
 
Ok. But first I think you should apologise for suggesting that people should be excluded from public transport for wearing the wrong clothes.
 
slowjoe said:
Ok. But first I think you should apologise for suggesting that people should be excluded from public transport for wearing the wrong clothes.
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I can see no reason why that would require an apology. A difference of opinion (I assume you don't share mine) isn't an offence, unless, of course, you want to make it one.

Anyway, how about that apology of yours?
 
untethered said:
I can see no reason why that would require an apology. A difference of opinion (I assume you don't share mine) isn't an offence, unless, of course, you want to make it one.

Anyway, how about that apology of yours?
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This is not a matter of 'offences', but rather of 'offensiveness'; I think your opinion is offensive, you think the same about mine. neither of us has 'committed an offence'.
 
Cobbles said:
Nonsense, he's instituted measures to re-phase traffic signals (presumably to the way they were before Ken had them "adjusrted" to generate "congestion") - good for you Mr J.
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any evidence that ken made adjustments with the intention of causing increased congestion?
 
Maggot said:
Please let us know of any areas where congestion has decreased due to these measures. If you find any I'll give you a prize.
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Don't think these measures have actually happened yet. And if you want to see congestion that traffic lights are causing then go to trafalgar square
 
kaiser said:
Don't think these measures have actually happened yet. And if you want to see congestion that traffic lights are causing then go to trafalgar square
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Have the traffic lights at Trafalger Sq been reconfigured since the pedestrianisation of the northern edge of the Sq?
 
kaiser said:
Don't think these measures have actually happened yet. And if you want to see congestion that traffic lights are causing then go to trafalgar square
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so you are suggesting these traffic lights have been set to intentionally cause this congestion?

again, i will ask for evidence to back up this assertion.
 
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