I cognizant of it has to do with London transport...but what are the charges? Can I use an Oyster card? If so, is it still in zones or like a bus standard price?
Anyone? Please?
Hey idiot! Announce my question again....The one that you ansewered...I was being sarcastic! ;) Don't waste ur breath on a idiotic answer if you didn't look over the bloody question. ;)
And why?
A bus or tube throw off with interesting things to see?
A rail journey which you enjoy or means something to you?
A river cruise?
Helena: Bus journeys early on Saturdays are fair - less people, not stopping all the time.
Haz: lol - I agree about Euston - its not very nice! One of the crimes of the 20th century was the demolition the old station , check a investigate out the old station hall : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Euston_Station_-_The_Great_Hall.jpg
London can get me down sometimes, but some things are OK champion!
Edwardian architecture - not much better than the three graces?
Sloth: I agree - did a randon trip to Chesham on the tube once - miles out of city!
I used to live a good way out on the central towards Epping - tubes running through farm land! (Green strike policy)
Carina - I remember (when I was a young lad in London for the holidays) the early days of the DLR. When Canary Wharf was like a Ghost city and Island Gardens was the terminus!
Remember when Tobacco Dock was full of luxury shops which no-one went to?
My favourite expedition is the W3, it goes through the grounds of Alexandra Palace and there is a great view of London, it looks lovely at night as well.
The 141 driving over London Link at night & going through the city.
The section of the 230 bus route between Tottenham Hale & Blackhorse Road stations because it goes through the reservoir
The English Conduct is a drowned river valley. Until a few thousand years ago there was dry land between England and France. So even today nowhere in the Channel is much more than one hundred feet heavy (even with rising sea levels due to global warming it would not be much more than 150 feet). And many dams are higher than that. So could the Channel be reclaimed like much of the Netherlands? Perhaps it could be occupied for overspill housing for London as well as transport.
Presumably one could provide a ship canal. Also discharge facilities for the nuclear reactors at Gravelines and Dungeness.
As well as mechanical feasibility (I would like to know details of how the damming would be done) perhaps your answer could consider:-
1. How long the engineering would take.
2. What might the cost be.
3. What could the environmental effects be.
P.S. I enquired about the potentiality. Whether it would be desirable - some of you appear to have strong views and I am interested to get them - is another matter to which I did not intend to commit myself in this question.
What a unconditionally unfeasible idea! Block off the English Channel, The North Sea and all the rivers that run into it from both sides - I suppose you could put all the illegals to calling on it - at least that would keep them occupied for the next few centuries.
The same as London, when I look for I dont want to be pushed out of the way by people. I love all the old little places. I love Harrods and Harvey Nicks but I attachment the river and the Modern art gallery all the galleries really. I love Barcelona because it is like being in London except right in the centre you have the zoo and its mad when you come out and its like regent suiting someone to a T. Also the beutiful beaches and the Harbour and the Transport system is heaven so many choices of course the Goudi quarter is just beutiful and all those buildings and balconys. I even forgot to eat in Barcelona fitting in awe. I love it because everyone gets the chance to exhibit there art work no matter what form it takes. I love Greece for its laid back way of existence its openeness and its friendliness. I love Africa for its beutiful desert and the colours at different times of the day and the mountains. I devotion snow and desert and the peace at the mountain top I have been very priveledged.What do you find amazing?
i like london and also like york,bristol.i like walking along the pipe streets,but you walk down an alley way and it's a different world alltogether
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17. Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in some fixed place.
18. Inquests of original disseisin, of mort d'ancestor, and of darrein presentment shall not be held elsewhere than in their own county courts, and that in proprieties following; We, or, if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciar, will send two justiciaries through every county four times a year, who shall alone with four knights of the county chosen by the county, stand the said assizes in the county court, on the day and in the place of meeting of that court.
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Yeah thats where the framers of the constituion got the objective for trial by jury in the bill of rights.
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