Transport in London is shit

We'll all be driving electric cars soon, says Zac, so no worries.

I hope LU have actually done some modelling of data to test the hypothesis, and it's not just that the new intern in Operations has had a bright idea they've promised to try out.

Every time I go to another city and find they stand on the left I rend my garments and shout "Why! Why are you all doing this!"

another city or, say, Selfridges.

Another thing that happens at Holborn (I was there last night, and rrrrrrage) is the bunching, because the escalators are so long if you do get halfway up often there's a long stretch with no one at all standing on the right so if you get tired on the long walk up you can stop for a little rest. If everyone stands on the left as well you can't even walk past the bunched up but to get to the clear patches.

But christ I'm the person that wants to put pedestrian lanes on Oxford St for "walking in a hurry" and "standing gawking at the shops".

i've walked home 4 times in the last 6/7 days at work - even walking home is difficult due to volume of people.

Saw the first non-lunatic bridge proposal in ages this week - swinging foot and cyclist bridge between Canada Water and Canary Wharf. That would make walking home - or at least walking the busiest and most unreliable section - an actual possibility.

Yeah that looked good. Don't get me started on the Garden Bridge, unless you have real & effective proposals for stopping it from getting built.

What was wrong with the Battersea Power Station/Nine Elms idea?

what do you mean? competition winner was announced today

though not everyone's keen

Thanks I'd missed that. A car free pedestrian and cyclists bridge looks good to me, though I'm aware of some active and strong local opposition (it's practically in my neighbourhood ).

The end of the terrible, barely-fit-for-purpose South London rail franchises is finally in sight. Truly this is a joyous day.

For all his being a Stealth Tory and that, my MP's tweetstream is just a steady stream of invective about Southern Trains, which has been quite amusing.

This could be brilliant. But will the lines get some proper names now? "Overground" is going to be way too broad a term, as is "TFL Rail". It'd be like if they called all the Tube services just "The Tube".

tfl rail will become crossrail i thot

Property prices have just shot up 10% in the last hour.

Hmm, TFL took over the line I use for work and have been shite, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.

xposts ah i see it is more complex after ahem cursory reading

which one? i have found the service from maryland to liverpool st IMMEASURABLY better since abellio greater anglia handed over to tfl

Chingford -> Liverpool St line

Wasn't a lot of that underspending and fuck-all maintenance done by the old owners because they knew TFL were coming? Meant TFL arrived to a total shambles

yea

i want to start a petition to get booths back for london underground staff. it must be so shit having to stand all day? why did they think this was a good idea? couldnt they have one person in the booth and one person on the station floor, and then take turns? another reason to hate boris.

why did they think this was a good idea?

It's to humiliate and undermine the staff, and to punish them for striking, I reckon.

cant go back that easily either. they removed and tiled over the booths. what a load of cunts.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/03/tfl-managers-disgusting-celebrating-london-underground-tube-ticket-office-closures-rmt

“Almost 50 people from the FftFS [Fit for the Future Stations] team spent an enjoyable evening in the luxurious setting of the RAF Club in Piccadilly as they celebrated the successful completion of the main ticket office closure programme.

“All 289 ticket offices were closed, within budget, in an immense team effort throughout 2015.”

this is an era of abject contempt

"A TfL spokesman said: “No public money was spent on the dinner organised by some of our construction workers to mark the completion of their building work. The dinner was held in their own time and entirely at their own expense."

despite this, the closures are still idiotic, and something i still dont quite understand the point of. supposedly sadiq is going to look into it. but i dont imagine his findings will be any diff to his decision not to reverse boris' okaying of the garden bridge (i.e. lets still do it!)

every cunt involved in london transport can eat shit today frankly

train advertised from east croydon for clapham junction, get on, it's fast to blackfriars

there is no single biggest journey-ruining wrong train in the capital except like the fucking gatwick express

texted my client to tell them what happened, autocorrects my destination to Cosplay Junction and I don't spot it

fuck everyone

who is your client?

blackfriars is such a shitty pointless station I'm in it now

client is the mum of a tutee

but yeah, a pointless station on a bridge over the thames whoop Dr ducking do

preserving some of these autocorrects coz why not

lol oh dear

texted my client to tell them what happened, autocorrects my destination to Cosplay Junction and I don't spot it

this is hardly London Transport's fault tho!

indulge my picaresque m8

ok ok consider yrself indulged

screenshots or it didn't happen

Im my experience "late people" always have their lame excuses and often blame other forces rather than their own tardiness or lack of attention to detail:P

Jokes obv, I have ended up in Manchester or York on a few occasions after getting the wrong train or falling asleep on one!

autocorrects my destination to Cosplay Junction

Could only happen to Louis.

I knew Southern was a shitheap, but this is pretty outrageous. Down to one train an hour on certain already-packed lines, others cancelled entirely
http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/revised-timetable#impact4

(Word has it that DfT is sanctioning all this because they want the unions broken)

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2016/railway-roulette/

Transport in the UK is shit.

Having spent 30 minutes in a traffic jam at 11pm, on a Monday night, in Cricklewood, this does not come as news to me.

It took me over 4 hours to get home from work on Monday, and it's lucky I work from home Tuesdays and Wednesdays because it hasn't been much better since then according to colleagues. I thought my commute might improve since I'm not using Southern trains anymore, but Southeastern aren't much better.

"UK tops list of most traffic-congested EU cities"

ya we're making progress on changing that tho

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I'm usually small-mercies grateful I'm on Southeastern rather than Southern, but they've been having their worst spell for years.

Nothing says 'welcome back' like one train every forty five minutes on the Piccadilly line from T5 because the wheels are wet.

as usual the obv place to is London Reconnections.

It's still not entirely clear to me why this has happened this year. Yes

The result was an unprecedented level of leaf drop in a short period that seems to have quickly exceeded a level that the Piccadilly line’s mitigation could cope with.

But leaf fall feels like something which wd have an effect proportionate to its level. i.e. in previous not-so-bad-but-previously-quite-bad years trains wd have gone out of action and the service wd have been affected.

The fact that they've had severe delays for getting on for, what, three/four weeks now, as they try and push repairs through a bottle neck seems crazy.

But I guess it may be that a critical volume of repairs was needed which it's been impossible to complete quickly enough.

Just getting this thread ready for today's hellish journey.

I've already tried and given up, as I watched two completely full trains arrive and depart from my station. Still, it does mean I get to work from home!