thought i'd lost my wallet for a panicky half-hour last year and it was so expensive i was going to have to walk from holborn to clapton. found wallet in duffel bag shortly after.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 10:53 (seven years ago) link
I have to be honest and say that I don't exactly know what my daily commute costs when I touch through on my card (this might be why I occasionally tumble over my overdraft), but fuck me is a one day travelcard ridiculously expensive now.
― Senator Luther Strange (stevie), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 10:58 (seven years ago) link
Ding dong the bridge is dead:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40921373
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Monday, 14 August 2017 12:11 (seven years ago) link
fuckin finally
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 August 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
We are continuously updating our map database... #gardenbridge pic.twitter.com/aO73FbhJeQ— A-Z Digital Mapping (@AZdigitalmaps) August 14, 2017
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Monday, 14 August 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
typically exhaustive and fascinating piece at london reconnections about upgrading holborn underground station's capacity.
nothing like large infrastructure project timetables for making you feel mortal either.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 3 December 2017 08:25 (six years ago) link
http://buzzsteam.com/2018/03/04/southeastern-commuter-train-stuck-at-lewisham/
― stet, Monday, 5 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Jesus fucking Christ, that is hellish.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 5 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
As soon as it is known that the train is likely to be stranded for a considerable time (> 30 minutes), efforts should be made to identify any particularly vulnerable passengers.
buried in the middle of an official guidance pdf linked from that site but also hardly rocket science, fuckers.
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 5 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Bit of fucking rain and I'm stranded in Tonbridge waiting for a taxi. Good thing I don't have work tomorrow oh wait
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
^ got my delay repay declined for this, assumed because I got the departure wrong by one minute, phoned up to try and fix it and the operator said normally they check 5 minutes either side, I said well they obviously haven't this time, and he denied the existence of the train I got, said it's not on his computer. It's listed on southeasternrailway.co.uk at the time I told him. How are you meant to argue with that? I guess it's an effective way to get around paying compensation if you just deny any trains exist, which given it's Southeastern railway, is I suppose quite believable.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 11 June 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
Can we please nationalise these cunts
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
typically excellent London Reconnections article on Crossrail delays. Some key points
ETCS is a European signalling specification for the safe operation of trains. In fact it is used throughout the world, especially in China. The current National Rail standard, Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS), is very safe. TPWS is largely responsible for the incredible safety record achieved in recent years. It is not, however, 100% fail-safe in all circumstances and does not always protect against human error. For example, it won’t always prevent a buffer stop collision at a terminal – not the sort of thing you want to happen on a terminal platform in an underground tunnel at, say, Terminal 4.The problem is that whilst very reliable once working properly, ETCS is known to be a fickle beast. Like all electronic signalling systems, it is very susceptible to hostile electrical environments. Unfortunately, it seems that a hostile electrical environment is exactly the sort of thing one finds in a round bored tunnel with a 25kV, 50Hz AC catenary running alongside it, with the added complication of a similar but different signalling system already present. Which is an accurate description of the Heathrow tunnels.
Howard Smith’s comment to the TfL Board perhaps sums the current situation perfectly:It performed as expected as in functionally it works, but the reliability needs a lot of work before we’d be happy with it as a passenger service.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
of course the impact is that they’ll probably have to go back for even more money and that other projects will shelved or delayed. i’d like to see a pie chart breakdown of the comparative impact of lower passenger numbers, the removal of government subsidy this year, and split out from the passenger numbers the likely impact of full Crossrail service being delayed. Of course these aren’t strictly comparable as the loss of government subsidy has been modelled into the business plan (TfL becomes a real estate developer! what a world), but the passenger numbers were not. all of this also feels fairly luxurious when you look at the state of Northern travel systems - intercity, suburban and at the city level - but after all money for this is not zero sum. We just have a government that hasn’t invested in transport infrastructure and expects TfL to run without subsidy. The impact on productivity of failing transport systems, whether in London or in the north is huge.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 09:24 (five years ago) link
odd question:
did jenny holzer ever have her truisms printed on the back of london bus tickets or did i dream that? i can't find a single picture online but i'm sure i have a couple somewhere, probably tucked into books.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 March 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
Quite literally shit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48068457
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 April 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
*pride*
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 27 April 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link
Tube trains were delayed due to "soiled cars" on 801 separate occasions.
Maybe they should just have a 'soil car' on the night tube. A toilet, is what I'm saying. The drivers could offload the full tanks in Zone 5 somewhere, although obv. not in the parts where decent people live.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 April 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
Sat two seats away from a copiously vomiting young woman on the Overground only today. This was only 7pm! She had a pal with her, thank goodness.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 27 April 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
People in Birmingham paying in cash on the bus (and discussing various ticket options with the driver), it's like the dark ages up here.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
They do have contactless but our main route is run by two different companies and only ones caps at the day pass price. Deregulation!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
I had to pay cash in a bus in Leeds. That was odd
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
In Glasgow you pay in cash and the drivers do not give change backThat's what it's like in Glasgow, mate
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
Soft southern bastids.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
turns out transport in london is not so bad
― ogmor, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
they do contactless on arriva in this bit of w yorkshire since a couple of weeks ago, although I've not seeing anyone using it. "whither be this witchcraft, take these cumbersome threpenny bits or i'll strike thee"
― calzino, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
since I stopped commuting by bus (not in London) they've changed from only accepting cash with minimal chance of change available, to accepting contactless AND some sort of elaborate app where you pay in advance and activate tickets when you want them and give a secret code or whatnot
― kinder, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
In Medway it’s basically impossible to guess how much the fare is going to be, when the bus is meant to leave or, for the most part, where it is going, without consulting a website approximately as complex as a 17th century farmers’ almanac but the recent addition of contactless has been useful.
Drivers can’t not give change, but they also leave the depot with zero cash - so if nobody has actually given them any coins before you get on, and you want to pay with a £5 note, they just refuse to take you.
― ShariVari, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
sending a driver out without at least a basic float of £50 in coins is ridic, maybe not so much now but it has been standard practice for years before contactless.
― calzino, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
they give you a token for yr change in dublin, you can go ten miles to the head office to collect it if you like
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
That is - or was until recently - the deal in Glasgow, you get a little piece of paper that you can go redeem somewhere lmao
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
drivers up here mostly let ppl on for free when they're out of change
― ogmor, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Thats the common sense approach, especially if you are getting a day ticket. But some of these miserable fuckin drivers...
― calzino, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
This can get all the way to fuck.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/18/woman-knocked-down-while-on-phone-wins-payout-from-cyclist
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Disgraceful judgement.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Outrageous.
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
who works for a finance firm in the City of London and runs yoga retreats
― imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Most people who run yoga retreats?
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Ah wait I see now
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
Horrendous decision. I constantly see tourists moronically wandering into the road or fucking around blocking people from crossing safely - that’s the kind of unexpected behaviour I see most often and it’s so common. London continues to be shit for cyclists - if they weren’t forced to merge with traffic esp on overcrowded junctions, you’d remove this worry.
― stress tweeting (gyac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Fuck this. Cyclists should be prepared to turn sharply into the path of all the cars and buses going past them if some idiot steps off the pavement without looking?
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
she brought the case, waived her anonymity, and is about to suffer national wrath. worth it?
― imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
The audacity to sue for this is beyond belief. And tbh I doubt the wrath of the nation will be harnessed in defence of the universally loved and respected cyclists of London
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
yoga retreats can get you a shit-hot lawyer eh
― imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
It’s very difficult to judge court cases based on a 200 word newspaper summary.
If this happened where I think it did, pedestrians cross through the cycle lane constantly. The cyclist saw her, shouted a warning, blew his air horn and swerved when it was too late but didn’t slow down or stop when he had the chance. His assumption seems to be that she would hear and turn back in time, which isn’t what happened. Interestingly, the pedestrian witnesses seem to have sided with the cyclist and the cyclist witness sided with the pedestrian.
It takes a huge amount of brass neck to sue for this but idk if it’s legally wrong.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
damn your even-handedness, we want blood
― imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Cycling in London is genuinely quite dangerous, and especially during rush hour braking hard/swerving unexpectedly is not a good idea. Might not be legally wrong but it is fucking bullshit. Oh lookNice little detail at the end:“A survey of Australian drivers earlier this year suggested more than half think cyclists are not completely human, making it easier to justify hatred or aggression towards them.”
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
bleurghhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/18/sheffield-magazine-under-fire-after-call-to-razor-wire-cyclists
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
just wanna squawk about some of these wild bus re-routes that totally snuck up on me - 4 now goes to Blackfriars not Waterloo, 40 now Clerkenwell Green instead of Fenchurch St, 388 to Liverpool St instead of Elephant & Castle and a bunch of wtf others
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Is this the Daily Mail comments pages. Case Law already states a pedestrian already established on the road has right of way. As she was. The Highway Code says something similar. Read the judgement. She was found to be half at fault. In the City of London there are some incredibly arsey macho and aggressive cyclists. He was likely going to fast to stop. Which is reckless.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link