lyra

it/she 🏳️‍⚧️ 23 🚂 loser train nerd girl 💚 bi poly transfem | nsfw:@pissbait | priv:@0nehundredyears | help me and my partner out:

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WE DID IT!!!! Every DLR station time (getting on or off at every stop): 5 hours 54 minutes!!!

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@StuNott and the only place many will ever ride trains!

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the theme park thing, as much as it sounds unbelievable, is a real thing some tourists believe. I encountered people who thought that the city of Cambridge was a theme park multiple times in my old job - usually they wanted to know where to buy tickets to enter the city

[GRR 🌻 @top_banana3]

TDIL that in Cornwall they've had problems with American tourists walking into houses and having a picnic in people's back gardens because they didn't believe people actually lived there and they were at a theme park/museum 😬

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@chlortisokay beyond a doubt

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@liam43102 (*they themselves, as non-criminals)

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@liam43102 the immediate move to 'why aren't you going after the real fare evaders' to me is a big flashing sign of someone who kicked off because they conceive of fare dodgers (and criminals) as a separate underclass and they can never be criminals regardless of if they break any laws

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from a friend:

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> fare dodges
> "Why aren't they going after the real fare dodgers"
amazing work

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Hi, @WestMidRailway, I am lodging a formal complaint.

Despite holding a valid ticket, I was forcibly ejected from your train over an inadvertently expired attendant railcard. I immediately offered to buy a replacement on the spot, but your lack of onboard WiFi made it impossible.

Your staff member behaved with outrageous aggression, treated me like a criminal, and removed my bags without permission.

This is typical of modern Britain: fare dodgers roam freely while decent, paying passengers are singled out for disgraceful abuse.

You should be deeply ashamed. Your franchise deserves to be stripped at the first opportunity.

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@liam43102 do you seriously think that people doing it deliberately don't also claim that it's an inadvertent mistake?

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@liam43102 The point being, if you have a rule set to prevent fare evasion like this, you have to apply it equally. There is no magical distinction between this guy and any other fare dodger

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@liam43102 I might suggest my experience as a gateline operator probably gives me a lot of those than you, but you seem to have made your mind up already

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@blairwithme they were always coated in harry potter merch so I suspect they thought Cambridge was a hogwarts theme park of some kind

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@uncreativetom Equally now if crossrail was extended to ebbsfleet it would take a lot of pressure of st.pancras to have at least a handful of international trains stop there

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@uncreativetom For ebbfleet, sure, but Ashford made a lot of sense because it could take passengers from all over the south - especially if services along the south coast (Hastings but then onto eastbourne + Brighton) were improved (electrification) as there had been plans for in the past

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@breadandposes the argument doesn't make any sense anyway because a slower railway with tighter curves = more land + more infrastructure needed which is obviously not cheaper

[Robin 🐛 @Undue_Risk]

to succeed in the trans community you have to understand that much like golf, hooking up is all about networking

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@israelophobix they'll kill you for this but you're right