Reply to: more commuting hell

[Sockpuppet]

I cycle. 30km, just less than an hour.

all uphill?

[hattra]

wait 30 minutes for a virgin to Preston

[TheMonkey]

Ahh lightweights. You want to brave First Captial Connect (ex WAGN). This morning - ticket machines all broken, 21 people in queue for ticket office being served by a very slow half-man half-monkey hybrid. Miss the direct train into King's Cross due to this. Get on the slightly late following train, which gets stuck about 2 miles up the line for 30 mins because the one I'd missed broke down. When it finally moves, some muppet passes out and they have to hold it in the station for 45 minutes (the time it takes for the ambulance to arrive). By that time I've had it and decided to go home.

[threaded]

I cycle. 30km, just less than an hour.

[lilelvis2000]

You are Reginald Perrin and claim my £5.

Reggi seemed to ride on much posher trains than Northern can afford. Nevermind they get a per passenger subsidy, but they do seem to run some c*ap hardware.

[ASB]

eurostar was delyed so got to the hotel in Paris after modnight, still get double pay for Sunday travel, 1st class, working today in clients office then travel back to London tomorrow evening, all at ether double rate or time and half....not so bad considering the contract should have ended last Friday !!! and I've now been handed a 3 month renewal.

Dunno if it helps, depends where you are but this is a decent new hotel in the redevelopment of Levallois.

http://www.evergreenhotel-paris.com/

It's about 170 if you book on line. Arriving on a sunday book the w/end rate which was 120 for 1 night then change mind on arrival. Generally they'll give the same rate for a the next few days.

[Ivor1]

My commute = will I make it to my client a live and checking out everyone who looks dodgy getting on the tube with a bag.

Actually today was one of the worst some man got on at Baker Street, was looking around nervously and then starting chanting to himself , Im sure some do it just to make people nervous

[DaveB]

Think yourselves lucky, I've been doing M6/M62 commutes for the past year, it is very close to permanent gridlock, somebody brakes on the M60 and there is a 10 mile queue on the M6. Its time to start watching Ch4/5 get a new life programs again !

I'm doing the same trip from the other side. A1 - M62. Not usually as bad as the east bound version from what I can tell but regular snarl up on the 62 still cause grief. If the bloody trains ran at convieniant times I'd use them!

[rootsnall]

Think yourselves lucky, I've been doing M6/M62 commutes for the past year, it is very close to permanent gridlock, somebody brakes on the M60 and there is a 10 mile queue on the M6. Its time to start watching Ch4/5 get a new life programs again !

[n5gooner]

eurostar was delyed so got to the hotel in Paris after modnight, still get double pay for Sunday travel, 1st class, working today in clients office then travel back to London tomorrow evening, all at ether double rate or time and half....not so bad considering the contract should have ended last Friday !!! and I've now been handed a 3 month renewal.

[DaveB]

"Eleven minutes late, staff difficulties, Hampton Wick."
"Eleven minutes late, signal failure at Vauxhall."
"Eleven minutes late, staff shortages, Nine Elms."
"Eleven minutes late, derailment of container truck, Raynes Park."
"Eleven minutes late, seasonal manpower shortages, Clapham Junction."
"Eleven minutes late, defective junction box, New Malden."
"Eleven minutes late, overheated axle at Berrylands."
"Eleven minutes late, defective axle at Wandsworth."
"Eleven minutes late, somebody had stolen the lines at Surbiton."
"Seventeen minutes late, defective bogey at Earlsfield."
"Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!"
"Twenty-two minutes late, black ice at Norbiton."
"Twenty-two minutes late, obstacles on the line at Berrylands."
"Twenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden."
"Twenty-two minutes late, fed up by train delays, came by bike. Slow puncture at Peckham."
"Twenty-two minutes late, escaped puma, Chessington North."

[Spacecadet]

You are Reginald Perrin and claim my £5.

i've just started watching series one of that again this weekend!

"Twenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden"

[SallyAnne]

[QUOTE=Sockpuppet] I'm still not about of bed QUOTE]


There is something so very wrong with that! You're in bed talking to this lot?

[DimPrawn]

You are Reginald Perrin and claim my £5.

[lilelvis2000]

I forgot to mention that in the evening on the way home - the trains were still not being allowed through. So, wait 30 mins. for a bus to Bolton - which takes nearly 60mins. to get there. wait 30 minutes for a virgin to Preston and then run at Preston to catch the service to York. And then a bus home. 2.5 hours later ..I get home.

Those of you following will have surmised that I spent an equal amount of time commuting as I spent in the office.

And this morning - as usual the 8:30 was cancelled.