F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
25 minutes in light traffic, 25 minutes in heavy traffic. Getting to work is predictable
Getting home on time becomes uncertain when all you bastards come to the West Country for your summer hols and jam up the M5.
Getting home on time becomes uncertain when all you bastards come to the West Country for your summer hols and jam up the M5.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Good luck to anyone trying to get to Waterloo this morning, large fire @ Vauxhall, SWT advising against travelling at all!
So i don't commute by Southern much anymore but follow lots of local folk on twitter who still do - it is incredible how many commuters from Reigate/Redhill who would normally be opposed to such a thing are screaming for nationalisation as Southern just fuck their lives up on a daily basis.
This by 'Jeremy Clackson' at Inside Croydon is really interesting
Southern Failways: The train driver’s story
it's based on this blog
The Real Blog: The real reason Southern Rail services have imploded
The suggestion being that the staff shortages crippling the network is actually Southern trying to fuck it's unionised staff hard for striking, in turn fucking everyone else.
Given the amount of Tory MP's actively pressuring Southern be interesting if this gains wider traction as it is surely something many of them would secretly approve of
This by 'Jeremy Clackson' at Inside Croydon is really interesting
Southern Failways: The train driver’s story
it's based on this blog
The Real Blog: The real reason Southern Rail services have imploded
The suggestion being that the staff shortages crippling the network is actually Southern trying to fuck it's unionised staff hard for striking, in turn fucking everyone else.
Given the amount of Tory MP's actively pressuring Southern be interesting if this gains wider traction as it is surely something many of them would secretly approve of
another Southern strike - as many have noted on social media and this article, no one will probably notice the difference from current terrible service
Another Strike Called For Southern Trains
Another Strike Called For Southern Trains
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
I did wonder cos these "staff shortages" have been going on for about three weeks. It was "excessive conductor sickness" the other day.
Southern are absolutely useless. I use four different rail services every day and it's noticeable how much shitter they are than anybody else.
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
I got a later train the other day and a man had a felt top hat on. I just thought that was what went on in London these days.
Through some kind of miracle, my train ran as per normal and then the underground was clear, probably because nobody else could make it in.
At Earlsfield, one guy on the platform did plead for everybody to move up, saying he had been waiting on the platform for an hour in the rain. I felt sorry for him.
At Earlsfield, one guy on the platform did plead for everybody to move up, saying he had been waiting on the platform for an hour in the rain. I felt sorry for him.
Virtual Blue
ready
delays from Streatham Station and then stuck on Blackfriars - Thameslink - Farringdon for fucking ages.
2 hours to get in.
Should have cycled.
2 hours to get in.
Should have cycled.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Hour and half on the Central line this morning, hot, sweaty, the rain steaming off people. Journey should take 50 minutes.
Shit commute
Shit commute
Virtual Blue
ready
Only took me 2.5 hours to Islington to Streatham.
Waste of a bastard day.
Waste of a bastard day.
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
Six and a half hours to and from work today. London, you've finally broken me.
ice-is-forming
I was born naked, shameless & fucking outrageous..
Had to sit and look at the Pacific Ocean for three minutes earlier whilst they fixed a hole on the esplanade  
Puddy_Tat
santa paws, do you ever come to the ghetto?
this morning -
doing the final check on the phone to see if train is still on time and see train service suspended (tree on the line in the bracknell area)
wait for info about when it's going to be cleared or that tickets accepted via reading - paddington.
no point in going via reading - guildford line as signals or power supply or something at guildford hit by lightning.
doing the final check on the phone to see if train is still on time and see train service suspended (tree on the line in the bracknell area)
wait for info about when it's going to be cleared or that tickets accepted via reading - paddington.
no point in going via reading - guildford line as signals or power supply or something at guildford hit by lightning.
local bus (to reading) not running due to power lines down across the road.
ticket acceptance via paddington announced, longish walk to get alternative bus to reading. just miss one.
signalling problems in the slough area - bloody slow journey to paddington.
wimbledon bit of district line suspended due to flooding so can't go that way.
paddington (bakerloo line) currently closed for rebuilding, walk to edgware road.
signal problems on the bakerloo line. eventually change to jubilee line at baker street, victoria at green park and northern line at stockwell.
about an hour and a half late for work, although i wasn't the last one to arrive.
this afternoon -
South West Trains more or less advising not to travel, no trains shown as calling at Wimbledon. Ticket acceptance via Paddington still in place. Bakerloo line still having problems, so decided to go to Victoria and round on the circle line.
Got to Victoria, circle line now suspended. Back down the victoria line. Remember that Paddington Bakerloo line is shut, decide that with the circle line being buggered no point in going via Baker Street, change to central line and walk up the road from Lancaster Gate.
Got on train due to leave paddington in just over 5 minutes rather than the one with the last minute rush to it. 5 minutes after departure time, guard announces a technical problem and suggests anyone for Reading gets off again. Again, avoid the train that's under siege and got a seat on the one a few minutes later.
At Reading, bloody great queue for trains in this direction, but one apparently coming in. By the look of things, it had probably been the first one through for an hour or two.
Home about 45 minutes late.
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
little_legs
Поехали!
Yesterday, again in the God damn windowless number 12, 4 kids sat eating the nasty chicken. The bus smelled like they were eating something rotten & reheated. I counted and kept reminding myself that they were hungry that's why they were eating. But then got off half way and walked.
This evening, during rush hour, a man with a dog on Victoria line train, the carriage was packed by people like a tin of sardines. Someone, unintentionally I am sure, stepped on the dog's foot. She did not like it and started to growl. The owner said to her it's ok darling, but she didn't care, she was upset.
This evening, during rush hour, a man with a dog on Victoria line train, the carriage was packed by people like a tin of sardines. Someone, unintentionally I am sure, stepped on the dog's foot. She did not like it and started to growl. The owner said to her it's ok darling, but she didn't care, she was upset.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The aircon on my train this evening was a bit fierce. Had to get the emergency jumper out of the bag. 
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Long trip to get to the office today, should have got in about 20 past 8, instead sat on the tube waiting and bored for an extra 30 minutes or so.
Good times.
Good times.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
If everyone was that small we could all get on one train
not-bono-ever
meh
so it looks like my southern line trains to London bridge will be reduced from c. 12 between 6Am and 9AM, to 3. yes, 3. and I have the choice of getting to work early and looking too eager or arriving late.
Time to dig out the bike and start sweating that lard off
Time to dig out the bike and start sweating that lard off
The piss taking is epic. Could it be the beginning of the end for rail franchises, though? We can only hope.
I'm so fed up with commuting, amongst other rat race things, that we have decided that we are ending this life(style) on 30 June 2019. On to new things after then, probably away from the ridiculously overcrowded south-east. A week on, we still seem to be holding to it as a concept -- it didn't dissolve the morning after, certainly.
I'm so fed up with commuting, amongst other rat race things, that we have decided that we are ending this life(style) on 30 June 2019. On to new things after then, probably away from the ridiculously overcrowded south-east. A week on, we still seem to be holding to it as a concept -- it didn't dissolve the morning after, certainly.
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