Reply to: Tube Strike

[SueEllen]

So the streets in London were busier and more traffic but apart from that minimal interruptions, sack all of them I say!

You sack ALL the tube workers and watch how strike ballots that will occur on some trumped up payment thing.

[SlipTheJab]

So the streets in London were busier and more traffic but apart from that minimal interruptions, sack all of them I say!

[greenlake]

The DLR has customer service assistants as it's all above ground.

[stek]

Is the metro ALL above ground?

The DLR has customer service assistants as it's all above ground.

Only outside the city centre. There's only two lines at the moment, they're building or rather digging two more now, gonna be a ring.

They all have those weird platform door things too like they have on one or two tube lines.

Only trouble is there's bedlam when one breaks down, they need to get a driver and a train towing thing in front of it to shift it. That's why I always take the train to the airport....

[MrMarkyMark]

WGAS?

The French owner of the Manchester Metro link RATP Group, for one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATP_Group

[/The RATP Group (French: Groupe RATP), also known as the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (English: Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports) is a state-owned public transport operator headquartered in Paris, France. Formed in 1948, the group has its origins as the public transport operator for the city of Paris.

[LondonManc]

Ah yes, but then railways on the continent would suffer

WGAS?

[MrMarkyMark]

Just clean and efficient would do for the good folk of Manchester!

Ah yes, but then railways on the continent would suffer

[LondonManc]

Go to Spain or France, nice cheap, clean, efficient railways there

Just clean and efficient would do for the good folk of Manchester!

[darmstadt]

Public transport strike here too, and it's the first day of school (and work for many people) but from what I've heard its actually been reasonably trouble free.

[MrMarkyMark]

The bigger laugh is that the Metrolink in Manchester is more expensive than the DLR for similar length journeys. London weighting eh?

Go to Spain or France, nice cheap, clean, efficient railways there

[LondonManc]

Regardless of any of this, the lack of transport infrastructure spend in the Northern part of this country is a disgrace.

Still, I guess we must be the only country in the world that is paying higher fares to subsidise other countries railways.

The bigger laugh is that the Metrolink in Manchester is more expensive than the DLR for similar length journeys. London weighting eh?

[PurpleGorilla]

Tube Strike

Lovely commute to South Wales this morning, the fog clinging to the majestic valley, and a cool clean breeze.

[MrMarkyMark]

Regardless of any of this, the lack of transport infrastructure spend in the Northern part of this country is a disgrace.

Still, I guess we must be the only country in the world that is paying higher fares to subsidise other countries railways.

[LondonManc]

Is the metro ALL above ground?

The DLR has customer service assistants as it's all above ground.

Mostly, just like the Metrolink in Manchester.

Difference with Manchester is that it crosses streets and dopey drivers don't realise, no matter how many times it happens, that when car meets tram, tram wins.

[SueEllen]

The metro in Copenhagen is driverless and the ticket machines are automatic both to buy and use. Wonder if anyone actually works there at all...

Is the metro ALL above ground?

The DLR has customer service assistants as it's all above ground.