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If Zack Polanski wins the Green leadership then there could be a pact between them and the new party - although they might both be strong in the same seats rather than 'exceeding the sum of their parts'.

I get the frustration as someone to the left of Starmer, but a 'party' of 2 MPs doesn't sound like a strong start to a movement, especially if they didn't agree on when to go public. Even the short-lived Independent Group/Change UK had 10 in their first couple of days Should ZS face a...

Used to play the violin, still play piano (actually a Yamaha keyboard). I play in the monthly jam at the pub which gives me something to practise towards!

So you'd get more in a supermarket and no risk of being stuck in Ibiza halfway through the shift.

But until recently the rail market would have been smaller. Sundays have got a lot busier in terms of things going on in London, and the seaside towns have only recently reversed years of decline (Brighton being an exception).

More anecdata from me - the Honda car showroom in my town has closed and been replaced with a BYD one.

Side question. Wateringbury to West St Leonards is usually 3 different trains (sometimes 2). Does that suggest someone was caught on the final leg but said they'd connected from a previous train?

Any ideas @Mike395 ?

And going back to the Civil Service point, friends have told me they commute to a Whitehall office for the mandated 2 days a week only to spend much of the day on video calls with their colleagues in Manchester and Leeds.

This one in particular has had years of work and got the highways officers on side. The expert for the opposing parties has been a bit disingenuous in my view.

I have a personal connection to this one, but it's also of broader interest: this is the public inquiry for a proposed new garden village in Kent with around 8,000 houses. As part of the Statement of Case, there's been a strong emphasis on cycling infrastructure—particularly highlighting e-bikes...

ULEZ is still in place and Sadiq Khan's vote went up after it was introduced...

To put a bit of science on it and disregard both 'one off' stations like Teeside Airport and junction stations which might serve both busy and quiet lines, why not look at strings of 5 consecutive stations? For example: Mallaig to Lochailort - total 110,000 passengers last year (2023-24)...

Happy birthday and well done to the forum team! I joined the forum in 2010 when I was about to start commuting to my first job. It's still an interesting place to visit daily, particularly thanks to those members who work on the railway and share their insight.

True true. I was on the Northern line this evening and it was back to pre COVID occupancy style.