On 1 Nov 2006 13:09:10 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2006-11-01, magwitch wrote:
Huge muttered:

On 2006-11-01, magwitch wrote:
The Natural Philosopher muttered:

A poster on the BBC HYS forum had quite an interesting idea in that every
driver would be rationed with a fuel allowance, say 500 litres of fuel per
month, if a driver stuck to his allowance, fine. If he exceeded it, he'd
have to buy his extra ration from people who'd not used up theirs.

The problem with this idea is that Public Transport in London at rush hour
is full up. There is simply no more room for any more passengers.

There would be if a legal entitlement to home-working was introduced as part
of the employer/employee contract, 2 days a week, people worked from home,
unless their job couldn't be done from there, I'd say that would cut
peak-time commuter numbers by a quarter.

And it might well work better in London than in many other places, since
most of the people on those trains are office workers.

The downside of this, as several people have pointed out, is that if your
job can be done remotely at home, it can be done remotely in Hyderabad.

Has anyone online or on a 'phone line got any professional
satisfaction from anyone doing anything useful for them in Hyderbad?

I have a solution. Intruduce Cypercommuter trains. Everybody sits
there on mainlines with laptops and connections, doing stuff (unheard,
because they have headphones), and at the end of the day they end up
at their home station. They have a good day out, achieve some
undistracted work, save on their employer's city rental space, and are
able to go back to their families with the feeling of having
contributed a good day's commuting. Meanwhile, they will have
contributed considerably to the nation's transport infrastructure.
Someone merely lazing around in Hyderbad is not going to have
contributed much to that, let alone anything else.They will speak
English, whilst not actually having anything technically subsatantive
to say in it. This is what people find. So who are the nuts?

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GR