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james73 · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

Leave your car at home on national Car Free Day and have a free breakfast
on us.

The event, on 22 September, is part of European Mobility Week (16-22
September) and aims to encourage people onto public transport, bicycles
or to walk.

As well as saving money, being car free is the greener and healthier way
to get to work.

As an added incentive for Strathclyde residents to leave their vehicles at
home, we're offering a free breakfast for travellers on our Subway
network.

Passengers boarding at Buchanan Street, Shields Road, St Enoch or
Kelvinbridge stations between 07:00 and 09:00 on 22 September will be
offered a goodie-bag.

It will contain products and vouchers from event sponsors MacB fruit-
flavoured drinks, Stoats porridge oat bars, Bradford bakers, James
Mackie fresh fruit supplier, Subway sandwiches and Greggs bakers.

The free gifts will be given out at Fuelling Stations set up at these
locations – with information about switching to public transport on hand.

There will also be a carnival atmosphere in stations with upbeat morning
songs from live performers to brighten up the daily commute.

James H
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james73 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

Mobile deal is talk of underground (Evening Times)

COMMUTERS in Glasgow will be the first in the UK to be able to use their
mobile phones in underground stations.

The new deal will allow Subway passengers to call and text while waiting
on the platform from early December.

However, the move in five of the busiest stations in the city will initially be
limited to O2 customers.

If successful it could be rolled out at London Underground stations in the
future.

O2 said it is the first mobile phone operator in the UK to employ the
"multi-user distributed antenna system" which enables mobile phones to
work underground.

Chief technology officer Derek McManus said: "This new technology will
enable customers to make calls, send and receive text messages and
access a host of data services while on the subway platform.

"This is the first time that any mobile phone network in the UK has
implemented a service like this and O2 is delighted to be giving its
customers the first chance to communicate on the underground."

The service will operate at Buchanan Street, St Enoch, Kelvinbridge,
Hillhead and Partick stations from December and could be potentially
lucrative for the mobile phone network.

James H
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james73 · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject:

Safety blitz at Central (Evening Times)

TRANSPORT police have sent a clear signal to thugs - crime in Central Station
will not be tolerated.

Officers launched a crackdown on criminals carrying weapons and drugs in
the city's busiest transport hub.

The Evening Times joined police as they carried out Operation Shield - a
mass stop-and-search exercise.

During a four-hour blitz cops used an airport-style metal detector to scan
almost 200 commuters.

And police bosses vowed they will not let up on criminals who put passengers'
lives at risk.

Sergeant Graham Hart, leading the operation, said: "We are sending a
message of reassurance to the public but we are also letting people know
we are alert to criminals carrying weapons and we will not stand for it.

"This is the second operation of its type we have carried out in Central
Station and it will not be the last.

"Criminals who carry weapons on our transport system will be caught and
punished."

Last month we told how violent crime rates in Central Station had rocketed
while clear-up rates plunged. And almost one third of violent crime and knife
attacks in the station were going undetected.

But police vowed to use Operation Shield to increase their presence in
Central Station to push up clear-up rates.

James H
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Happiness ain't at the end of the road - Happiness *IS* the road...