Later Weekends
I see TfL have now announced that they will be running later weekend services to cater for the pissheads at the expense of people who need to be out and about early on Saturday or Sunday mornings.
From June next year, the Tube will operate approximately half an hour later than they currently do, whilst starting about an hour later to allow for engineering works to continue.
This all follows a long consultation, although I suspect even if the results had been 99% against later trains, Ken Livingston would have introduced it anyway.
It's the poor early-morning commuters and travellers I feel sorry for. The extra time on a Friday and Saturday night will lose a lot of money for LUL (after all, would you insist on checking a drunks ticket at 1am? I certainly wouldn't. Many of them are incapable of buying a ticket anyway.
I've seen people queueing outside of Acton Town station to catch the first Picc train of the day to Heathrow on a Sunday morning. The train is usually quite busy, leaving Acton at approx 0645. The first train will in future be at 0745, which I'm sure the taxi firms will be quite happy about, but not the punters!
From June next year, the Tube will operate approximately half an hour later than they currently do, whilst starting about an hour later to allow for engineering works to continue.
This all follows a long consultation, although I suspect even if the results had been 99% against later trains, Ken Livingston would have introduced it anyway.
It's the poor early-morning commuters and travellers I feel sorry for. The extra time on a Friday and Saturday night will lose a lot of money for LUL (after all, would you insist on checking a drunks ticket at 1am? I certainly wouldn't. Many of them are incapable of buying a ticket anyway.
I've seen people queueing outside of Acton Town station to catch the first Picc train of the day to Heathrow on a Sunday morning. The train is usually quite busy, leaving Acton at approx 0645. The first train will in future be at 0745, which I'm sure the taxi firms will be quite happy about, but not the punters!
posted by DistrictDriver at 12:07 am
2 Comments:
Alantan,
I believe the problems arise with the current parameters, ie at present a 'late' duty is anything finishing before 0130. After that, it's a night shift.
When the new hours come into effect, this will mean either re-negotiating the parameters for lates, or employing more night drivers (who wouldn't be needed through the week!).
This in turn has an effect on the early duties, which must finish by a certain time. If they are starting an hour later, they'll have to finish later, so that also will need re-negotiating.
At least that's my understanding of things. I stand to be corrected by anyone more knowledgable! Or I'll update this when I find out exactly what's what.
Tube Dude, the early trains on a Sunday are all quite busy! I was quite shocked the first time I had to do an early Sunday duty. I picked up almost a full load from West Ham apparently heading to a car boot sale or something!
The way I've read it is that it's only Saturday mornings that would be affected by the "late" start, Sundays would be as now.
Still a problem for anyone needing to get into town/Heathrow early on a Saturday though.
And isn't it convenient that the announcement was made less than a week before the local elections, and just when the Government were having "problems"...
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