Transport in London is shit

Those things may as well just display the entire written works of L. Ron Hubbard, such is their relation to actual reality.

But my point was that enough people do use it at weekends to make a mockery of the skeleton service that seems to operate every single Saturday and Sunday on the tube. I can barely recall a time when there was a regular Circle/H & C service at weekends!

If I were in charge, I would do exactly what the fuckers say they are anxious to avoid doing: close entire sections of line for, say, three or four weeks and get the bloody job done. Those Metronet numpties will never get anything done while they're ambling about on overtime at weekends and having 'late finishes' on Monday morning. It would be a pain in the arse if you live in say, East Finchley, but at least you knew it'd be over soon and you could actually plan your life around it.

Jesus, simply trying to find out how much a travelcard to London costs becomes a lunatic gambit when trying to tackle the FCC website.

you're all spoiled

A ridiculous thread, this. Londoners!

how's that strike goin'?

Also the buses seem to be better every time I get back. But don't ever change, you total cunts.

xp

I love this thread.

On Friday night I bought a single from Finchley Road to Ruislip for £3. This price seemed OK really, especially as I could get the fast train and change at Harrow for the Uxbridge one behind it.

15 minute wait on the District line for a Richmond train this morning. Is this normal? Was at Earls Court so popped over to the Piccadilly and got a train instantly. Really I should bite the bullet and cycle no matter how tired or lazy I feel.

brixton to hackney central: 133 + 48 is faster than the tube! i felt like i had discovered a wormhole

Ruislip -> I find this to be an extremely funny name (when said in Dutch). Almost as funny as public transport in England.

i discovered the 272 bus on Saturday altho i didn't go on it (but i'd like to).

o to live in a place where 15 minutes waiting for a bus is a long time

but then u would be complaining like us. you would become the very thing you DESPISE.

The London Underground Victoria line will close early between Mondays and Thursdays from 4 February until late November 2008....

Passengers using the line after 21:45 will be asked to use alternative routes while overnight work takes place on a major upgrade of the line.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/7197.aspx

It's been like this for a lot of 2007 (from July through to November)- and no doubt this means it's going to be up the creek at weekends as well.

I missed out on Dr C's gig last night because the Hammersmith and City was out west on Kings Cross because clearly no one wants to do anything at the weekends.

"Full details of weekend closures will also be publicised nearer the time."

Seemed okay to me last month, although I chuckled every time the lovely voice announced that the Victoria line does not stop at Victoria station.

The "No smoking ANYWHERE on the underground" lady pisses me off. I wasn't gonna smoke, stop telling me off!

Ed there's more than one way out west!

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CLU/C5117~Way-Out-West-Posters.jpg

as much as i'm down with the message, these horrible mascots really piss me off

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/together-for-london-RHbanner.gif

should've drafted in natalie dee

I want to hunt and kill the staff of TFL today. I got a £20 fine last night because the station I was going to didn't have a fucking Oyster reader, unlike every other station before it. I have zone 1-3 card but this was 1 bastard stop into zone 4. Just my fucking luck etc.

figure on the left is based on blueski, surely?

should've drafted in natalie dee

^^^xkcd dude could have spoke to the children with these drawings. And then said something funny about wireless routing.

something about the faces is really patronising. i guess the whole campaign is really.

The cinema advert is horrid, and lasts about four hours.

I got a £20 fine last night because the station I was going to didn't have a fucking Oyster reader

Can you get it back? That's really their fault surely.

They nabbed about 4 other people saying the same thing as me, and basically said tough shit it was your responsibility to check before you travelled, so probably not. I'm going to appeal though, cos it's bollocks really.

Which station, out of interest? I didn't think there were many without these days.

Wood Street. Apparently the Oyster readers stop at Walthamstow Central, where I usually get off, but I had to go to the doctors, so I went on 1 more stop. Honestly didn't know it was in zone 4, but I have prepay on my Oyster anyway so tend not to worry about such things normally.

Yeah that is absolute bullshit.

I think you're all cynical bastards and that the adverts are quite cute. I don't have to stare at them every day though, so I guess the annoyingness doesn't quite seep into me.

they remind me of Love Is... urgh

Useless revenue protection staff - it's not that there isn't an Oyster reader at that station, it's that Pre-pay on NR is far from prefect, and is only valid as far as Walthamstow Central.

It's a complete mess, I found this map the other day which is useful in seeing where Pre-Pay is and isn't valid on National Rail (almost used overground there, which leads to more confusion, ie the 'overground train' in colloquial use, and the London Overground which is the North London Line and other ex-Silverlink Metro services - this has its own set of Pre-Pay anomalies too!). They should either introduce total Z1-6 Pre-pay fares on NR, or none at all. Having bits of lines here and there is just stupid.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/tickets/oyster-PAYG-08-01-02.pdf