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What's the least shitty way to get to Canary Wharf from Euston at rush hour?

Not experienced London rush hour in a couple of years so am not especially looking forward to it.
 
Epico said:
What's the least shitty way to get to Canary Wharf from Euston at rush hour?

Not experienced London rush hour in a couple of years so am not especially looking forward to it.
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where are you actually starting from? just wondering if something involving the overground from willesden junction round to stratford might be an option. and cheaper as it avoids zone 1
 
Sweaty cramped 40 minutes on the way home tonight, bus top deck, tooth by jowl with a poor screaming baby and a six year old (or thereabouts) happy girl who blew a whistle constantly in the seat beside me. For 40 minutes. Gruelling. The mum looked utterly worn down. When I stood up, I noticed I'd had my foot in a fried chicken box, and my shoe had ketchup and mayonnaise on it.

At least it's the weekend now :)
 
Someone hit by a train, so the usual chaos. Abrupt cancellations, so I've had to get a roundabout route home which has added an hour to the journey. On the plus side, I've learned that there is a spoof Twitter account for Cross Country trains - called appropriately enough Cross Cuntry. :)

@crosscountrytrn
 
Change of boss means I'll be going to London more, which is fine if there are no delays, but yesterday I was delayed leaving Glasgow AND on arrival at Gatwick as a 777 was pushing back and some kind of pin broke in the pushback vehicle so it got stuck. We were then stuck waiting to get onto a stand for 30 minutes.

Fortunately not delayed on the way back but fucking hell don't people know how to wait to get off a plane? On both journeys when I was stood in the aisle waiting to get off two other people decided to also stand in the same space as me and constantly jostled me for space. To top this off tonight, when I was stood in the aisle two women in the aisle in front of me both turned round and said 'i need to get my case', which they'd stuck in the overhead lockers behind them, and then looked cross when I asked them where I should move to given they were blocking the aisle in front and there was a ton of people behind. One eventually decided to let me move out of the way but fuck's sake, doesn't anyone have common sense or manners anymore?

God help me if I have to do that on a regular basis.
 
equationgirl said:
Change of boss means I'll be going to London more, which is fine if there are no delays, but yesterday I was delayed leaving Glasgow AND on arrival at Gatwick as a 777 was pushing back and some kind of pin broke in the pushback vehicle so it got stuck. We were then stuck waiting to get onto a stand for 30 minutes.

Fortunately not delayed on the way back but fucking hell don't people know how to wait to get off a plane? On both journeys when I was stood in the aisle waiting to get off two other people decided to also stand in the same space as me and constantly jostled me for space. To top this off tonight, when I was stood in the aisle two women in the aisle in front of me both turned round and said 'i need to get my case', which they'd stuck in the overhead lockers behind them, and then looked cross when I asked them where I should move to given they were blocking the aisle in front and there was a ton of people behind. One eventually decided to let me move out of the way but fuck's sake, doesn't anyone have common sense or manners anymore?

God help me if I have to do that on a regular basis.
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Get the train instead - it's only a five hour journey. ;)
 
A tresspasser on Stockport viaduct halted most trains out of Manchester at rush hour, given most of them go over the viaduct. I'm not sure what's going on, except that a woman is on the viaduct and the police and fire brigade are there. So much longer journeys for everyone heading south like me, as we've had to get on any train that bypasses the viaduct.
 
Onket said:
About 20 mins. :mad:

Diversion will be in place for some time.
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#badtimes

I'm lucky - if everything is on-time, my commute is about 30 minutes usually - but if the tubes or trains are fucked - can take hours to get home
 
Onket said:
About 20 mins. :mad:

Diversion will be in place for some time.
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I got caught in that one 2 weeks ago on my way to an appointment. I left 10 minutes earlier than I needed to (not knowing about the diversion) and ended up being 15 minutes late :mad:
 
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