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If you live in the UK right now I seriously urge you to fill out this consultation.
The government and the rail operating companies intend to close nearly 1000 train station ticket offices because they deem them "a waste of money". This is not true. Ticket offices are important, not only to people that are unable to buy their tickets online but most importantly to disabled people. Ticket staff and station attendants are the ones responsible for providing accessible literature and information about travel and helping people board and leave trains safely and securely. Furthermore, they deal with station security, should an accident happen at the station, the ticket staff are first to attend. The government and the train operating companies want to shut these vital services down which will not only make thousands of people redundant but also make the railways a much less safe place to travel.
If you're not from the uk please boost this.
#UK#uk politics#uk#trains#railways#ticket offices#ableism#disabled#disability#gwr#great western railway#fuck the tories#fuck tories#glass door display fridges
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Consultation on closing all rail ticket offices
#SaveTicketOffices
Have your say in the consultation before September 1st
(hint - even Singapore, with one of the most advanced public transport systems in the world has ticket offices in stations)
bit.ly/saveticketoffices
#ticket offices#ticket office closure#consultation#con#Department for Transport#Department for Transport liars#Department for Transport stupid
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Ticket Office Closures Q&As
Due to the threat of legal action by disability activists and a number of metro mayors, the 21-day consultation window on the Rail Delivery Group’s (RDG) proposals to close almost 1,000 ticket offices across the rail network has been extended to 1st September. As of around a week ago, some 170,000 responses to the consultation had already been received and it is clear that the public are…
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#accessibility#Politics#public transport#railways#ticket office closures#ticket offices#Transport#UK politics#uk railways
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i love when employees of shitty service providers are like wellllll technically you have to pay for this thing but i'm gonna pretend i didn't see it ;) just keep it between us okay? the realest allies ever
#🐉#i fucked up my train tickets and the ticket inspector was like okay so im gonna sell you a ticket and then not scan it#so when you get off you can go and get your money back at the ticket office. i love you.#i also do this at work sometimes because you gotta give back to get back
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Highway to Hell
Just another fun little story based on a random sentence song title that came to mind. I hope you guys like it and please leave a comment below!
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Steve was a really bad driver. He knew it, his high school friends knew it, and the police knew it. He didn’t mean it in a technical way, he was perfectly capable of driving a car and not crashing it. Admittedly, he was reckless and he found driving laws to be more of a suggestion than a rule. Steve had his reasons though.
There was very little to do in Hawkins for any sort of entertainment. One could only go to the arcade or go swimming at the lake so many times before it became boring just like everything else in the town. When the excitement surrounding fun activities wore out, Steve turned to racing down empty country roads and skidding down the highway to feel a thrill.
And he liked it. The feeling of the wind tearing through the open windows, the exhilaration at the threat of danger, and the delight that came with gaslighting the cops that pulled him over. There was nothing better.
All of that changed when the kids started hanging around though. Steve couldn’t race down the 25 mph roads at 70. He had to slow down and protect his precious cargo. As such, the only people that didn’t realize he was a notoriously bad driver were the kids and Robin. They considered him the safest driver they’d ever been around. He followed the speed limit to a T, didn’t have road rage like their parents, and always stopped at stop signs. What more could they ask for?
It lasted for a while, his good driving habits, enough that Hopper, Powell, and Callahan all took a sigh of relief. Not having to worry about Steve Harrington doing his darndest to wrap himself around a tree allowed them to let their guard down. Granted, it coincided with strange happenings, disappearances, and murders, but still, it was one less thing on their plate.
When he started hanging out with Eddie after the events of Spring Break, Steve relaxed a little bit. He didn’t have to be so stringent with his driving and could start letting loose again. So he did. Whenever he was alone or driving somewhere with Eddie, he’d speed like a bat out of hell, ignore the recommended stop signs, take turns too fast, everything he shouldn’t do.
Hopper was the one who pulled him over first after he illegally passed the police cruiser going 60 mph in a 45.
“Harrington, what the hell? I thought you were done with this shit,” Hopper grumbled. His face was exasperated which made sense since his pseudo-son was being a little shit again.
Steve just sent him a chagrined smile, “I’m sorry Hop, I didn’t mean to speed. I’m rushing Eddie back to the trailer because he’s feeling sick and I don’t want him throwing up in my car. I love the guy but not enough to deal with vomit, you know?”
Hopper just shook his head at him and waved him off. “Next time I catch you speeding, you’re getting a ticket. Go the speed limit, Steve.”
“Of course you won’t catch me again, Hop! I’ll see you at dinner tomorrow. Bye!” He called as Hopper walked back to the cruiser. He looked at Eddie in the passenger seat to face a deranged glare. “What’s up with you?”
“Me?!” Eddie shrieked. “You’re the one speeding like you have a death wish then blaming it on me to my future father-in-law! You’re not winning me any points here, Steve!”
“Wow hey, Hop likes you just fine. Also, future father-in-law? Let’s go back to that, as far as I know, you haven’t even proposed!”
“Gay marriage is illegal! Otherwise I would’ve-”
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The next time they got pulled over, Steve blew through a stop sign. That one, admittedly, was his fault. He’d been too distracted with Eddie’s hand rubbing his thigh that he’d driven right through it. Luckily though, it was late and no one was out and about. Besides the police cruiser that was parked out of sight in the dark.
As soon as Powell saw it was him, he told him to keep his eyes on the road and walked back to his car. He’d dealt a lot with Steve Harrington and he wasn’t willing to put up with the headache at 2 AM on a Tuesday. He’d get him next time, he was sure.
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Steve had a tactic for dealing with Callahan. His big brother could be a bit of a dumbass and as long as you muddied the situation enough, he would drop the lecture and ticket out of confused rage alone. It had worked with him every single time thus far and it wouldn’t fail him now.
So, when he and Eddie got pulled over for speeding down an empty country road, Steve mustered up his bitchiest face. As soon as Phil walked up to the window, he started his act.
“Phil, what the hell? Why are you pulling me over? I’m just trying to get home after a long day.”
“You were going 30 mph over the speed limit which is considered reckless driving. I should write you a ticket right now,” Callahan spoke with an air of cocky arrogance that was sure to fade.
“Who says I was speeding? You were the one that had to speed to catch up to me. Why were you driving so quickly? Some might say that’s reckless.” The smile dropped off of Phil’s face immediately and he became defensive.
“I’m a police officer, I’m allowed to speed.”
“Ohhh, so you think you’re above the law because you have a badge?” Steve raised an eyebrow and could only watch in delight as Phil’s face became more and more red.
“That’s not what I sai-”
“That’s awful, Phil. What would mom say right now? Or worse, what would Hopper say about his deputy mistreating the badge?”
Phil just looked at him in shock before he blinked. “How the hell do you do this every time? Do you know how many times you’ve tried to trick me when I’ve pulled you over?”
“Phil, that doesn’t sound like me at all. Why are you really pulling me over today? Are you trying to pull the annoying big brother card? Is this a prank?”
“You know it's not a prank, you were speeding!” He yelled at him.
“You were speeding!” Steve screamed back, pointing a finger at him accusingly.
“Jesus Christ, just go home and stop fucking speeding! Fuck Steve, every time!” Phil screamed in fury before stomping back to his cruiser.
Steve merely rolled up the window and turned his head to look at Eddie. He was once again shocked with his mouth gaping open.
“Oh yeah, did I tell you that Phil’s my brother? Small world, huh?”
~*~*~*~
Of course no one in the Party believed Eddie when he told them that Steve drove like a maniac on crack. Every single person he told just shrugged it off and it was driving him insane. He even tried to convince Hopper to talk to the kids but he refused to get in the middle or risk fighting with his kid.
To this day, the Party still doesn’t believe Eddie when he says that Steve is a reckless driver (and it’s infuriating because Steve smirks arrogantly anytime it comes up).
Bonus: Eddie knows Steve before the Upside Down because he almost hit him with his car when Eddie was walking home one day (Steve gave him a ride after but the damage was done)
That’s how he knew he could handle driving the RV and why he decided to throw him the reins.
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#Yes he crashed the Toddfather but that doesn’t count#Hopper finds out that no one has ever given the manipulative little bastard a ticket before and pins Steve with one the next time he catche#Callahan reads him the riot act because it was a ‘targeted ticketing’ that his brother didn’t deserve#stranger things#steddie#fanfic#steve harrington#eddie munson#chief jim hopper#phil callahan#officer callahan#officer powell
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Seeing characters in romance stories just jetting between countries at a moment's notice with no thought for visa; seeing airports as sites of triumphant climaxes and romantic denouements instead of places of fear and danger where a sword hangs above your head— it all breaks off little pieces of my heart. They're constant reminders that my people will never be human enough in the colonial world order to be allowed to move freely around it. No matter what your race, those non-refugees living in the Global North will never understand what it's like to be part of a global ghetto where your passport is nothing but a trembling supplication and humiliation.
#race#racism#westerners will never know the dehumanization of the visa office#the ability to afford a plane ticket and the ability to get your visa stamped goes hand in hand#bc you're not allowed to leave the country unless you can show that you can afford to stay there and come back#you have to swear in blood that you won't overstay a minute longer than you're permitted to and sign your firstborn as collateral#a western airport is the closest i can come to the muslim experience bc the authorities will only care about my skin tone#that season 2 finale of Sense8 where the Mexican‚ and Kenyan and Indian characters of the cluster were able to flee to the US within hours#at the same time as the south korean and westerners#had Lankan fans falling down laughing#we're willing to suspend our disbelief of the science fiction telepathy shenanigans but THAT is a bridge too far#sadly not even the worst of the Wakowskis racefails#I love that show but its Caucasity was aggressive#global south#global north#immigration#refugees#islamophobia#no fly list#white supremacy#coloniality#western imperialism#colonial capitalism#knee of huss
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(he didn't fall off, he saw Signalman and fucking booked it out of there)
#liveman#kakuranger#carranger#hurricaneger#go onger#super sentaisuke#couldnt help myself and had to draw the boys in the beloved 'fell off motorbike' format#i fucking love signalman so much actually#yusuke 'crashes atleast 10 motorbikes over the course of liveman' amamiya knows how to sweet talk his way out of a ticket#team baby yousuke has NEVER been in any kind of trouble with the police in his LIFE#sasuke has a few misdemeanors and does NOT want another one#sosuke is so used to being around nagging/yelling police officers that he's barely registered signalman's existance tbh#2023 art tag
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the uk government are trying to close train ticket offices and remove platform staff which would seriously hurt disabled people and people who don’t have access to technology so if you live in the uk please sign the petition against this xoxo
#uk politics#also forces us to rely on technology - the amount of times i’ve had to go to the ticket office because i’ve not been able to use the machine
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you have no idea how long ive been waiting for these two to talk to each other in my office
#the office is more like a storage space with lot of cool stuff in it tbh#thats not really relevant here i know#anyways funny thing ive just realized is that they are also on my home screen thingy currently#have been for a bit#and im not s ur e if that was on purpose? considering the upcoming event and fs scout#which i was planning to pull on but mayo took all my tickets and dia i had to spare#and then didnt come home ueueue#unrelated again whoops#kori plays enstars#does this count as midoai ..?
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Today in Penzance (at the end of the line) there were protests against ticket office closures in support of RMT industrial action.
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Rail Ticket Offices to close - consultation extended to 1st September 2023
Passengers queue to use ticket offices because there are NO practical alternatives BUT for them to use ticket offices. Plans to close ticket offices all come from the stupid toffs of the Department for Transport and the government response to a petition that they are "modernising" by removing staff from behind screens is a blatant bare-faced lie
They are consulting with Trades Unions to make two thirds of Ticket Office Staff REDUNDANT - Not redeploying them
Take part in the consultation (before 1st September 2023) via links below
https://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/ticket-offices-have-your-say
https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures
It's not just the elderly, or foreign visitors, or the disabled, or the vulnerable, or those being sexually or physically harassed, who need ticket offices. Ticket offices have closed on the London Tube network, & look at the consequences. There is no way for me to buy a ticket with Senior Railcard from London Travel Zone 6 to Reading (I get free travel up to Travel Zone 6), in Whitechapel despite the Elizabeth Line running non-stop from Whitechapel to Reading.... So already, by closing the ticket office at Whitechapel - they have thrown away billions and billions of pounds building Crossrail/Elizabeth Line to Reading - because I can't use it.... ....an earlier "cunning plan" by Department for Transport ideological morons
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I think one of my favourite things about Japan right now is the fact that they have detailed written guidelines for every process they expect me to go through
#''what to expect at your appointment at the bank'' ''what to expect at the city office'' ''how to retrieve your ticket from Family Mart''#my autistic socially anxious self is so happy#shut up me
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Ughhhh it's so early 😭
#why did i agree to wake up so early 😭#gotta go with my abu to pay some bills and her plane tickets and then I'll go to the mail office for my package ‼️‼️
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#i’m in jakarta 🥹🥹🥹#also when we were in the immigration at the airport last night and the officer asked me what i’d do here i said oh vacation and concert#on wed haha then he asked what concert and then i said louis tomlinson%#then this lady next to me heard me and whispered panic to her bf behind her and was like ohmy god babe louis tomlinson is comimg here!!#afterwards while waiting for tricia and the others the same lady passed by us and greeted us#she told us how jealous she was and to have a lot of fun 🥺#we told her she could still go since the tickets are still available and she wasn’t sure 😔#*ri
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