Transport in London is shit

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!

I don't start till 12 so hopefully should be OK?

If you leave now

Hey why don't you drive, then you'll get in no problem!

(xp) No chance.

look at this moron https://twitter.com/MarkChutney/status/818356480671936512

LOLz

if(MARK)
‏@MarkChutney

My favourite #Bowie track is This Town Isn't Big Enough for the Both of Us

So this is a sort of clueless hipster Barry Shitpeas perhaps?

woah, imagine being that guy, and spending moments of your painfully finite life trolling people so ineptly and pointlessly

East London equality!

Coffee, gin, East London, equality!

Is Sadiq Khan's bus driver dad still alive? Needs to take his boy home and ground him for his bullshit rn.

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.

...

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.

seems unfair to expect a boxer to have much effect on London transport tbf

unfair tbf

lol! I mean Sadiq of course but Amir might even do a better job

Sadiq Khan is at least trying to hold talks! Other mayors in recent memory refused to do this.

The way he shills for affordable housing is exactly what Zac would have done imo

Wouldn't trust Sadiq Khan as far as I could throw him tbh.

He's a little lad tbf

Walked in... Did notice that some of those new to walking and cycling in London could do with basic training.

@PeterTatchell
I 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.

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.

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.