On 24 Dec, 18:48, Conor
hotmail.com> wrote:>> On 23 Dec, 10:32, Conor
hotmail.com> wrote:>
>>>> On 22 Dec, 16:37, Conor
hotmail.com> wrote:>>>>> In article
registered.motzarella.org>, Adrian says...>
>>>>>> I was merely correcting Conor's suggestion that it was just a planned
>>>>>> 24hr shutdown.
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>>>>> Sorry, I was referring to UK PLC as a whole - not just one sector of
>>>>> PT.
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>>>> Liverpool Street, a major mailine station, is closing for 10 days,
>>>> imagine the knock on effect, what about all those shops and services
>>>> allied to that?
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>>> What about them? They'll still get the goods delivered and people will
>>> use alternative forms of transport.
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>> You just don't get it do you, or don't want to.
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>>>> It isn't just railways that are affected. One London
>>>> radio station is closing for three weeks!
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>>> I doubt a little shitty local community one will be missed.
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>> So if you don't mind it doesn't matter to others?
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>>>> Pretty well everything is
>>>> affected by this monstrous imposition of a religious holiday coupled
>>>> with its commercial bonanaza and extreme hypermobility. I dread to
>>>> think of the environmental affect of all the waste and pollution
>>>> created.
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>>> Offset by the waste and pollution NOT being produced by manufacturing
>>> during this period.
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>> Much of the goods is imported and those countries are unlikely to be
>> closing for Christmas like ours.
>
>> The point which seems to be missed by you and others here is that
>> these closures and general breakdown of the infrastructure all happens
>> all at once because of Christmas, thus causing massive inconvenience
>> to the public. Had they happened individually over a year they would
>> hardly be noticed.
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> There is no breakdown of the infrastructure. There is no inconvenience.
>
Then how do you account for the fact that most PT is not running and
most shops are closed and things will not return to normal until a few
days into the new year?
