"A TfL spokesman said: βNo 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!)
― StillAdvance, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
who is your client?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
blackfriars is such a shitty pointless station I'm in it now
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
client is the mum of a tutee
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
but yeah, a pointless station on a bridge over the thames whoop Dr ducking do
preserving some of these autocorrects coz why not
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
lol oh dear
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
this is hardly London Transport's fault tho!
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
indulge my picaresque m8
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
ok ok consider yrself indulged
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
screenshots or it didn't happen
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
autocorrects my destination to Cosplay Junction
Could only happen to Louis.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 3 June 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
I knew Southern was a shitheap, but this is pretty outrageous. Down to one train an hour on certain already-packed lines, others cancelled entirelyhttp://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/revised-timetable#impact4
(Word has it that DfT is sanctioning all this because they want the unions broken)
― stet, Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
http://www.londonreconnections.com/2016/railway-roulette/
― toby, Monday, 11 July 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:37 (seven years ago) link
"UK tops list of most traffic-congested EU cities"
ya we're making progress on changing that tho
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
xpI'm usually small-mercies grateful I'm on Southeastern rather than Southern, but they've been having their worst spell for years.
― woof, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Nothing says 'welcome back' like one train every forty five minutes on the Piccadilly line from T5 because the wheels are wet.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
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 lineβs 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.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 15 December 2016 08:43 (seven years ago) link
Just getting this thread ready for today's hellish journey.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Monday, 9 January 2017 07:59 (seven years ago) link
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!
― Neil S, Monday, 9 January 2017 08:31 (seven years ago) link
I don't start till 12 so hopefully should be OK?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 08:57 (seven years ago) link
If you leave now
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:00 (seven years ago) link
Hey why don't you drive, then you'll get in no problem!
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:02 (seven years ago) link
(xp) No chance.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:09 (seven years ago) link
look at this moron https://twitter.com/MarkChutney/status/818356480671936512
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:10 (seven years ago) link
LOLz
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:12 (seven years ago) link
if(MARK)β@MarkChutney
My favourite #Bowie track is This Town Isn't Big Enough for the Both of Us
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:14 (seven years ago) link
So this is a sort of clueless hipster Barry Shitpeas perhaps?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:15 (seven years ago) link
woah, imagine being that guy, and spending moments of your painfully finite life trolling people so ineptly and pointlessly
― It's called, "giving a shit". (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link
East London equality!
Coffee, gin, East London, equality!
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 January 2017 09:17 (seven years ago) link
Is Sadiq Khan's bus driver dad still alive? Needs to take his boy home and ground him for his bullshit rn.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 January 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
so it seems if you are fighting for better working conditions in London or against your own gentrification then mayoral candidates Zac Khan or Amir Goldsmith are both useless fuckers.
― calzino, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:08 (seven years ago) link
...
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:12 (seven years ago) link
Khan previously made it quite clear (i think actually 80 times) that getting into power is all that matters, so you can erm.. make a difference or something.
― calzino, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:12 (seven years ago) link
seems unfair to expect a boxer to have much effect on London transport tbf
― Neil S, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link
unfair tbf
― Neil S, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:14 (seven years ago) link
lol! I mean Sadiq of course but Amir might even do a better job
― calzino, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Sadiq Khan is at least trying to hold talks! Other mayors in recent memory refused to do this.
― jane burkini (suzy), Monday, 9 January 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
The way he shills for affordable housing is exactly what Zac would have done imo
― calzino, Monday, 9 January 2017 12:28 (seven years ago) link
Wouldn't trust Sadiq Khan as far as I could throw him tbh.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
He's a little lad tbf
― nashwan, Monday, 9 January 2017 13:14 (seven years ago) link
Walked in... Did notice that some of those new to walking and cycling in London could do with basic training.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Monday, 9 January 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
@PeterTatchellI support rail workers but strikes hurt commuters, whereas opening barriers & allowing passengers to travel free would hurt rail bosses
Tatch one of many calling for rail workers to actually break the law as opposed to simply taking conventional industrial action.
― nashwan, Monday, 9 January 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Relieved this is over. I walk to work anyway, but the guy I share an office with kept yelling TUBESTRIKE! in a put-on scottish accent and hitting me on the arm. It was starting to hurt.
― sktsh, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
Ticket revenue from Southern goes to the government, not the rail management company. idk what the point would be when the vast majority of people have already paid for their weekly/monthly/annual tickets. Not sure how it works for TfL.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link
The weekend disruptions email seems to now be missing the single most useful feature - the map of tube closures. Maybe the bloke who does them is still on holiday.
(There's usually one when you get to the station but that might be too late. And goldhawk road station always has the map the other side of the barriers, which is idiocy iyam)
― koogs, Thursday, 12 January 2017 12:02 (seven years ago) link