Transport in London is shit

omg omg I finally got to ride on a new Victoria Line train. it was clean! it was spacious! the Train Lady Voice told me which side of the train the doors were going to open at the next stop!

wait what

hang on wtf is going down out there

There's a file under the railway arches at Rotherhithe according to the TFL site, and it appears to have completely wrecked all the London Bridge services.

Wait hold on there aren't any railway arches in Rotherhithe. I suppose they must mean somewhere in Bermondsey. But I'm looking at the area right now and I can't see a fire. Maybe it's small, or extinguished. Or maybe something else is going on.

South Bermondsey, arch by Debnams Road.

apparently SE London has been cut off, which will really facilitate the journey in I was planning on taking now

I got in fine from Forest Hill this morning but I think I was lucky to get on the one non-cancelled train in the space of half an hour.

The DLR also appears to be closed at Lewisham now. Very strange.

Perhaps they should just give us an official South East London-only bank holiday every time there is a big fire in Bermondsey (ie about once every six months).

IT'S LOCKDOWN

commence bio-seeding procedure

http://blackheathbugle.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/no-trains-no-dlr-every-bus-is-full/

I got in fine from Forest Hill this morning

Matt has a GURLFRIEND ew

No obvious smoke rising around Debnam Road right now, which I suppose is good news.

No obvious trains running either. On the jubilee Line thhis morning they were saying that Southern are only running Victoria services, maybe you can find your way to a station which serves Victoria Louis?

Oh and around Canary Wharf the DLR is fine.

Victoria doesn't do me a great deal of good OH LOL I just looked out of the window and it's TRAFFIC CARNAGE hahahahaha

(At least, I can see the DLR trains moving.)

Anyone got a helicopter?

My fucking course director has told me I have to come in because 'the tubes are fine'. Really appreciate your assumption that the Tube is ubiquitous within Greater London

DLR is running South of Canary Wharf; Jubilee is fine; boats seem to be mooching quite happily up and down the river.

I dunno where you are, LJ.

Am in Lee Green so basically fucked over x10 by this shambles

<3 the mental bus drivers cramming every last person on this morning. wing mirrors? fuck 'em!

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7557/71124849.jpg

In the hour you've spent on your computer you could have walked to North Greenwich, heh.

^^^be quiet

Or Lewisham, if you prefer.

I've heard the DLR is pretty much in lockdown as well for some reason or other, but I'm about to give it a shot.

Trains are on the move between Canary Wharf and the City, that much I can tell you.

(DLR robotrains obv)

Gipsy Hill-London Bridge wasn't too bad but no onward connections to Char X whatsoever. Took Jubilee Line (let one train go; very squashy but kinda standard for a.m. rush-hour) to Waterloo, walked over bridge (didn't pay for Tube trip - just flashed my rail ticket at the barrier guard). Could've gone on to Green Park for a quicker walk to the office but that might've been stretching the definition of "acceptable alternative route" and I didn't want an argument.

But, yeah, about 45min late.

the DLR was working really rather well - so well I'd almost but not quite consider implementing it into my regular journey

Where do you have to get to? The Bank line takes way longer to get you into zone 1 than the trains do.

lee -> angel islington

usual route -> london bridge -> angel islington

this route -> lewisham -> bank -> angel islington

way longer but kinda groovy - I totally sat at the front ^_^

East London Line is now running between Dalston Junction and New Cross/New Cross Gate.

might try it on my way home later if not too packed

Anyone else seen how many 'new Routemasters' Boris is planning to replace London's 83 bendy buses with?

Five...

hackney podcast all about buses -

http://hackneypodcast.co.uk/2010/02/edition-17-buses/

Getting any bus at all up Kingsland Road is pretty much the worst public transport experience you can have in London so I am overjoyed about this.

Any line running from New Cross to Dalston via Shoreditch is going to reach hipster critical mass very soon.

It basically puts my best friend on tap. Capital work, London

Getting any bus at all up Kingsland Road is pretty much the worst public transport experience you can have in London

this is a nonsense, as there are so many buses. only had one horrendous experience with it since i moved back to Hackney borough.

The number of buses isn't the issue, it's the appalling traffic and the inevitable bottleneck. I don't think I've ever got a bus up Kingsland Road that hasn't slowed to a crawl not long after the Geffrye Museum.

I do it every day and that's a pretty rare occurrence

i have always maintained that the worst public transport experience you can have in London is taking the No. 30 anywhere

i have never even attempted taking a bus up the Kingsland Road because i bike up it in MY FIXIE of course*

*i do not have a fixie

This line is good for me. I was touting this as the hipster line at the weekend. It's not running at the weekends till later on in May though says Tfl.

i don't even know what a fixie is

i actually have ridden up kingsland road on a fixie.

And in May all you Nathan Barley types can come down to Crystal Palace and get yr heads duffed in.

Mayor of London fails to invite Mayor of Hackney to opening do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqmJUFVi1A

This would be a lot more useful if it tied in with a single big City station... although maybe the novelty is that it doesn't.

Selfishly, I'd get a lot more use out of a route from Hackney Central to NW London that didn't divert through bloody Stamford Hill or Fins Park...