BBC Closing Travel Website...

BBC Closing Travel Website...

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jet_noise

Original Poster:

5,630 posts

181 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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...next month!

Comments seem universally critical.
How about less diversity, equality and climate managers instead as a way of saving money?


Dave Hedgehog

14,541 posts

203 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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travel websites are as obsolete as the sat nav manufacturers fit in their cars

google maps and waze all the way

hora

37,000 posts

210 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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Well they can on concentrate making completely unverified news reports on Syria using tweets and 'activists' on the ground to back up their reports.

thelawnet1

1,539 posts

154 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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wtf were they making an app? Waste of money, glad I don't pay a telly tax.

TEKNOPUG

18,843 posts

204 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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This reduction in service will be reflected in the licence fee I presume?

thelawnet1

1,539 posts

154 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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TEKNOPUG said:
This reduction in service will be reflected in the licence fee I presume?
it's political posturing to try and squeeze more tax out. 'look we cancelled this vital service, that proves we needs billions more to brainwash the British public with, please can we whack the licence fee up, thanks'

Riley Blue

20,912 posts

225 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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I didn't know it existed; if I need travel information in the UK there are plenty of other places I would look first.

jet_noise

Original Poster:

5,630 posts

181 months

Sunday 22nd January 2017
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Riley Blue said:
I didn't know it existed; if I need travel information in the UK there are plenty of other places I would look first.
Such as?

I do not have a smart phone - no mobile signal where I live.
I've found the BBC travel site to be in advance of e.g. the AA and Google maps. On Friday there was an accident on my usual route, the BBC travel website showed it. The others did not.

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Sunday 22nd January 2017
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Bit of a shame. Alongside Google and Waze, the best travel website for the road. Always reasonably updated with good detail. Don't get the hate for the Beeb. It is the best national broadcaster on the entire planet. Makes a refreshing change for Britain to do something worldclass.