From:  "Renko" <renko1945@hotmail.com>
Date:  08 Nov 2006 20:39:07 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/scot.general
Subject:  

Re: Riding trains in UK

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"Neil Williams"  wrote in message 
news:1162973075.294671.49440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> One of the areas where the UK is very good, compared even with a lot of
> mainland Europe, is online passenger information.  From a start of
> nothing at all in 1998 or so, it's not bad at all.
>
> The various Traveline sites are making online bus information available
> in a way it never was before, as well, and I've done quite a few
> complex journeys by rail and bus that I'd otherwise have just thought
> "too difficult" and gone by car.  We just need to integrate the lot
> into a national planner (that's better than the DfT one, which is crap)
> and we'll be sorted.
>
Obviously a devotee of Aristophenes whose characters Pithetaurus and 
Euelepides stumble upon Cloud Cuckoo Land

Roger