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Old 23rd October 2005, 09:05
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Mayor Ken powerless

London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who controls the city's underground commuter train system, said he's powerless to force a contractor to improve its maintenance of the Northern Line because he's bound by contracts signed before he took over. London Underground's Northern Line, the rail system's busiest, shut Oct. 12-14 after a series of emergency-brake failures on trains. City transportation chief Robert Kiley yesterday said Alstom SA's 20-year agreement to maintain trains on the line should be scrapped because of the breakdowns.

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Old 12th November 2005, 22:56
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Smile REd Ken powerless

If only!

Then I could drive my huge 4x4 into central london with out paying him!...and before anyone critisizes me for driving a big 4x4, its used for railway emergency work and major incidents.

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No critisisim from me, even if you owned it, if you got it enjoy it!
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Old 19th December 2005, 16:14
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who controls the city's underground commuter train system, said he's powerless to force a contractor to improve its maintenance of the Northern Line because he's bound by contracts signed before he took over. London Underground's Northern Line, the rail system's busiest, shut Oct. 12-14 after a series of emergency-brake failures on trains. City transportation chief Robert Kiley yesterday said Alstom SA's 20-year agreement to maintain trains on the line should be scrapped because of the breakdowns.

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U'ground breakdowns. Anybody who thinks machines never break down is either in cloud cuckoo land or the Stone Age. Kiley and Livingstone might usefully "get a life". How many Shuttles have crashed? Best brains in the world, etc etc. The people who do the work are not those who sign the contracts. I do not hear Kiley rushing to do "quality control/ final inspections" to shew the engineers how tis done.
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Old 19th December 2005, 20:05
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If only!

Then I could drive my huge 4x4 into central london with out paying him!...and before anyone critisizes me for driving a big 4x4, its used for railway emergency work and major incidents.

Ringo
Surely you qualify for an exemption from the CC? Can you claim it off your company?

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