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London buses headed in the same direction as Helsinki's high-tech transport system - The Guardian

The Guardian today had a feature, on the front of its technology supplement, on the recent introduction in London of announcements on buses, telling us where the next stop is and where the bus is going. The announcements have appeared on the buses near where I live, particularly the Transdev (London United) buses. This is all done with the aid of a GPS unit and a Windows-based computer unit in a £117million upgrade.

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An update on my earlier entry on the brother and sister of Omar Sharif who attempted to blow up a pizza parlour in Tel Aviv; I suspected that people would find them guilty even if they were acquitted, and that has indeed happened. Apparently some schoolkids said that she made some comment about being "on Bin Laden's team" while working as a supply teacher at the time of the 9/11 attacks. She is also accused of having told the kids that, if they had any relatives in New York, they were dead.

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This week yet another London bus route, the number 38, lost its Routemasters to be replaced by bendy buses (commonly called happy buses or free buses due to the scarcity of inspectors). The only route left is the number 159, an internationally known tourist route due to the Routemaster bus and the bus's route through architecturally scenic parts of London. The Führer Ken Livingstone intends to replace that with a plain old double-decker in a few weeks' time as well, against a lot of advice and evidence. If the callers on the Vanessa Feltz show were anything like representative (I'm no fan of Feltz, but the Nazi astroturfers who used to call in to "tell it like it is" on immigration, etc., don't seem to appear so much on her show), people generally are very much opposed to it; I heard at least one caller lament that these people are too set on their pet projects and refuse to listen to anyone.

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