Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Sam NelsonSam Nelson Date: Jan 29, 2008 01:40
In article giganews.com>,
"nightjar" .me.uk> writes:> I had to go up the Smoke yesterday afternoon. I never bother to drive into
> London, so went down to the railway station, where I discovered that the
> rail system had been thrown into disarray by unexpected winter weather in
> January. My train had been cancelled,
>
> [snip tale of PT woe]
>
> If this was a typical train journey, I'm glad I only need
> to use PT every few years.
Meanwhile, yesterday, the mother of my children drove from home[0] to
South Shields for a meeting, allowed herself half an hour's slack in travel
time against holdups (Edinburgh City Bypass and A1 were involved, after
all), didn't need any of it, arrived half an hour early for the meeting
and accomplished useful business in that extra time, drove home without
holdup or incident and declared it a successful working day. Tiring, of
course, but the PT alternative was considered and wasn't at all pretty.
Moral: if you want stuff done, don't put yourself in the position of
having to rely on anyone else to do it for yo
---especially not PT
operators.
0] `Somewhere in central Scotland'
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SAm.
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