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"In full: rail routes affected by Scotrail strike action"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Yep the c word (+ "traffic")
Posted 9 years ago # -
Choas indeed. There was 48 cyclists heading towards me between Barnton and the Bridge today just after 8. I had to slow down at least twice.
Notably 19 of the cyclists were between Whitehouse Road and Burnshot flyover. By far the busiest I've seen it.
Meanwhile the A90 was busy but not unusually so.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Inverkeithing High St was tailed back almost to the Station shortly after 7. Saw 7 or 8 Fife Bound Cyclists on the bridge.
Posted 9 years ago # -
What is bizarre about the traffic is that
1) a lot of the commuter lines into Edinburgh were either running as normal or running but with a reduced service
2) the tram issue was on Princes Street which isn't open to private cars anyway.According to the BBC "It is understood vehicles were jumping lights and getting stuck on tram lines.". Bad vehicles. Why didn't the people in charge of the vehicles make them behave....?
Posted 9 years ago # -
"2) the tram issue was on Princes Street which isn't open to private cars anyway."
From other descriptions it might have been the Lothian Road - South Charlotte Street bit causing tram-track-blockage, which would be simple enough to prevent by employing someone with a large hammer and a pressure-skoosher full of paint stripper to stand near the tracks, empowered to cosmetically mutilate any vehicles which ignore the "don't cross a junction if you can't see that your exit point on the other side is clear" thing. Despite the frequency with which I use it I can't recall offhand whether or not the tram tracks are box-junctioned...
Posted 9 years ago # -
I left a little later than usual this morning and came through Inverkeithing at 8am. If anything it was quieter than usual leading me to believe that a sheep mentality of 'if I leave early enough I'll beat the traffic' prevailed. I recall the same issue with the trains during the FRB closure when the earlier trains were rammed but ones which left after 8 were noticeably quieter. I also passed a colleague of mine who was on the bus on the A90 (still snarled up in the earlier rush). My journey took the usual 50 odd minutes. His took over 90.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I had an interesting read the other day - a resume from RAIB on train dispatch incidents, including door dragging - of which 50% were with DOO trains, and 25% with Guard dispatch. Falls between train & platform had an even higher DOO factor.
This review did not include incidents where passngers operated the emergency door release on a stalled train and got down on to the tracks. I have a strong hunch that these seem to be more common with DOO trains without staff with authority in the passenger accommodation. A notable incident was a local GWR train between Reading & London where the driver was occupied with the signaller and sorting out a small fire, and a passenger from the group who had detrained was struck and killed by another train, as no one was looking after the passengers and their safety.
Word also suggests that just as buses with conductors can be timetabled at up to twice the averaged running speed of a DOO bus, because the delays on boarding passengers are practically eliminated and the conductor collects fares and swipes concession cards etc, so a train with a closely working tram of driver & guard can work very efficiently to get the train stopped and started at a station, recovering lost time and keeping overall journey times down.
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