I'd be most surprised if any bus route never had more than three people on it. If that were the case, they could use a much smaller bus and save money.
Of course no bus if full at all times and over its entire route.
But it seems to be a bus - travelling the same distance each day - is an ideal case for electric. And there are now quite a few in London. Many of the others hybrid.
Go on then. Give your answer to avoiding this.
BTW I use commuter trains quite a bit in London. Far prefer a train to a tube. And this part of London is better served by trains than the tube. Having free travel, I don't aim to use it in rush hour. But the trains were never near empty outside rush hour. Going back to pre covid days.
Dunno about everyone else, or carbon footprint, but I love the lockers. This morning I rode my bike the 500m to the local Coop to pick up a package. Bike is easier than waiting for car windows to demist.
Lockers are great, no worrying about having to be in, or getting disturbed. I frequently go to the Coop anyway, for food. No croissants this morning :-(
21 years ago, I rode my bile into the village to get a loaf of bread. Perhaps 1/2 mile. On the way back some idiot of a motorist knocke me off my bike, which resulted in my right arm being in plaster from my shoulder to the knuckles for 3 months. I don't ride a bike anymore.
There are hybrid buses operating between Heathrow and Maidenhead (route
4), but they only operate electrically for a few yards after starting before the engine starts, so I suspect they don't save much diesel (and carbon). Perhaps they have regenerative braking.
Quite. And no need to queue up when sending a parcel.
In the 1970/80's BR used to run a cheap promotional weekday evenings fare from Wolverton/Bletchley to Euston, so as to try to fill up the otherwise empty returning commuter trains, it proved quite popular.
In the 1970/80's BR used to run a cheap promotional weekday evenings fare from Wolverton/Bletchley to Euston, so as to try to fill up the otherwise empty returning commuter trains, it proved quite popular.
Judging by the real time tracking information provided by some delivery companies around my way there is usually at leat one delivery to every neighbouring street, or a lot of deliveries in a relatively small area. Perhaps one delivery every 5 minutes.
Natch. Its all just EcoBollox?. Like the WWF adverts that spout lie upon lie in order to make you guilty enough to toss them a fiver.
I will never ever send WWF a penny.
I have studiously resisted attempts to install a SmartMeter?
Only once its built.
You cant do that - the electricity will leak out of the sockets!
yes. In fact I think they will not deliver until they have a good vanful for a small area. And with the rise in online shopping every van is much fuller than it used to be.
It has to be more fuel efficient if the distance between parcel stops is less than the distance of the customer to the nearest pickup point. With a warm engine, on the delivery van its as good as it gets bar a hybrid.
But the WWF are doing a great job. They have taught Polar Bears to read and write so that they can personally thank you and send you a fluffy toy and regular postcards telling you how they are getting on.
I am surprised they don't say 'stops electricity leaking out of the sockets, saves you humongous carbon emissions!
But doesn't the locker system only make economic sense for the delivery companies if so few people use them? How may local lockers would there have to be if, say, all Amazon and all Ebay packages were only delivered to local lockers. A warehouse size building full of lockers isn't going to be cheap to run. Elfin Safety would probably dictate that lockers cannot be more than 6 foot high so no stacking goods to the ceiling. How large would the car park have to be to accommodate all those picking up their items, probably at the same time of day?
You possibly could make a fortune if you advertised them that way on Facebook. Most people possibly don't realise that UK 13Amp sockets already have shutters to prevent leakage when no plug is attached.
It's rather mean that the WWF forced the World Wresting Federation to change to WWE when the WWF doesn't call itself the World Wildlife Fund any more. It's just an empty abbreviation, like the NCH which doesn't run children's homes any more.
And harassed parents can't dump their unwanted children off at Barnado's any more.
Can anyone explain to me why it seems to be necessary in a public nursery, etc, to fit all sockets with child proof dummy plugs?
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