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rocket_scientist
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Location: Prague
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 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:57 am Post subject: London Subway Fare Human Rights Violation |
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Six dollars! Six dollars for a measly subway ride. The most basic fare with no extra value added. $6! How about $1? Cheap subway rides are a human right. Subways provide a place poor people can sleep and get warm and they can't afford the six dollars. Where will these people go? Likely not to the subway!
Six dollars is pretty gross. I'm glad I don't pay it for long. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| Are they using dollars in England now? I must have missed that. Anyway, it's only (only!!) about �2.70. |
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rocket_scientist
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Location: Prague
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| Hi Sleepy - fare = 4 pounds = 6 dollars. I have to get a place near the attractions so I don't have to pay and pay. I have to stay in Hyde Park. Even with the oyster card, its still pretty stiff. |
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rocket_scientist
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Location: Prague
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh wow, there is a street called Pall Mall here. My father smoked those until he died from lung cancer. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:28 am Post subject: |
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They can always sleep in the subway stations, I guess.
Wait until you're old and you have to go to the bathroom constantly, and you have to pay 25 pence up to use a decent one each time. Now there's a human rights violation! |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:18 am Post subject: Re: London Subway Fare Human Rights Violation |
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| rocket_scientist wrote: |
Six dollars! Six dollars for a measly subway ride. The most basic fare with no extra value added. $6! How about $1? Cheap subway rides are a human right. Subways provide a place poor people can sleep and get warm and they can't afford the six dollars. Where will these people go? Likely not to the subway!
Six dollars is pretty gross. I'm glad I don't pay it for long. |
You have a really odd interpretation of 'human rights'. |
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rocket_scientist
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Location: Prague
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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I spent today in Notting Hill and Bayswater. Tomorrow I will go to the British Museum, Hyde park and then to the The Cutty Sark.
Its pretty cold here! |
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