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14th March 1981, Page 26
14th March 1981
Page 26
Page 26, 14th March 1981 — BIRDS EVE
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Be sure TRRL has a word for it

0 FAR I have found neither the me nor the courage to essay le epic report by the Transport id Road Research Laboratory, he Demand for Public Transdd. I dipped a tentative finger 'to the index and retired imiediately.

I was assaulted by problems ith collinearity. These are not iknown to the present governient, whose difficulties in -eserving the same straight line 3ve caused mirth among the irliamentary Opposition. As teryone knows, a straight line the shortest distance between ,to general elections.

Then there is multicollinearity "the presence of variables hich are highly linearly correted." This is also known as getig your lines crossed.

Flexibility is as important in ;sessing the demand for public 3nsport as it is in holding Parimentary seats. "Any estima)n technique used to deterine the parameters of a ?mand function," says the re)rt, "requires an adequate fount of variation in the mple in both the dependent id the independent variables." Otherwise, of course, one gets ick in a groove like a tram and ids up in the depot.

Paratransit receives a good at of attention. Not everyone joys being dropped off the top ck of a bus by parachute, nce the references to "pasnger resistance (G)." G force n be very nasty. centre. He was wisecracking his way across Canda by train — four nights and three days — from Toronto, where he works an an engineer, to Vancouver.

"I have a very well-appointed 'roomette' with all mod con in about 5ft by 5ft high by 3ft wide," he wrote from Calgary. "The bed folds out of the wall so part of me is in the compartment next door. A sort of a womb with a view.

"Tons of catering and at quite moderate prices {British Rail, please copy]. So far all I've seen out of my own private window has been snow, trees, snow and more trees. When we get to the prairies, I am told, it will be the same minus the trees. But the Rockies, I hear, are worth the whole trip."

"Most of the fish are so full of mercury (which is borne on the wind from the States) that you can dry them and hang them up for thermometers — unless you present them to the local pub, where they become barometers.

"Regularly, someone miscalculates the degree of frozenness and disappears under the ice, complete with van or truck, and sometimes hut, beer and hangover. Some even get rescued."

In fact, 80 anglers with 12 cars, 12 vans, six snowmobiles and 50 shacks were recently rescued by coastguard boats and a helicopter when on a warm day a five-mile-long frozen lump of the American side of Lake Erie took off for Canada. workers with them. It explains i convincing graphics just whei the money came from and weni Wages increased from £24.7 million in 1976-77 to £39.34 ml lion in 1979-80 or from an avei age of £3,473 to £5,138 a hear Meanwhile, dividends distri buted to blood-sucking share holders dropped from £640,00 to £356,000. Put out more re! flags at Transport House.

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