Reply to: Fake Road Closures

[Hobosapien]

A rare case where following a sat nav blindly (quite literally for some of the coffin dodgers plaguing our roads) will have a positive outcome.

Then they are just left wondering why the chicken is wanting to cross the road.

[jamesbrown]

Move to the continent. Problem solved.

He could populate the continent with his tedious sockies.

[greenlake]

Surely closing fake roads is a good thing.

[Pip in a Poke]

Sounds like you were lucky not to be detrained as an undesirable, challenging them like that. How dare you not just go with the flow, causing a scene and disturbing other passengers.

Well, yes looking back on it the way he was slow hand-clapped out of the carriage by myself and the other passengers destined for the Plymouth - Birmingham NS Cross Country service could have made me the target of a tasering by British transport Police upon arrival at BTM

[Hobosapien]

Oh and it's not just the roads that are the target of my ire at the moment.

Customer service on the railways is another bugbear of mine.

Why? It took me 3 1/2 hours to get from Chippenham to Worcester last Saturday all because I was late arriving for my connecting service thanks to FGW. But the way I was treated as an annoying inconvenience and dismissed in an offhand manner by the jobsworth BR guy on the train made me bloody furious.

Read a transcript of the conversation & see if wouldn't have been bloody furious.

It went something like this:

Jobsworth BR guy: Tickets please

The Gal: Why are we running late?

Jobsworth BR guy: We had to detrain an undesirable at Oldfield Park

The Gal: Inneresting, I'm sure but owing to the late running of this service, I am likely to miss my connection at Bristol Temple Meads. What do you intend doing to help me out of this dilemma?

Jobsworth BR guy: Where are you going?

The Gal: Worcester Shrub Hill

Jobsworth BR guy: That's Virgin Trains - it's a different TOC

The Gal: So?

Jobsworth BR guy: Nothing to do with us , love.

The Gal: Can you not at least phone ahead and ask for the station to hold the train since there are a number of passengers for that service on board this train?

Jobsworth BR guy: They won't do that, they've got targets, y'know...

The Gal: What about the target to do with letters of complaint from disgruntled customers?

Jobsworth BR guy: As I said, nothing to do with us, love.

The Gal: So what do you suggest I do?

(and this is the comment that made me absolutely apoplectic)

Jobsworth BR guy: Just go with the flow, love


Go with the flow?? In what other business in a free market economy would that individual still have a job? Seriously.... :tantrum

Sounds like you were lucky not to be detrained as an undesirable, challenging them like that. How dare you not just go with the flow, causing a scene and disturbing other passengers.

[northernladyuk]

I wasnt getting holier-than-thou; there's me parading myself in my short mini skirt, high heels for hours and hours. Yet there they sit on chairs by the side of the road, lazy so and so's. I'm moving to Spain it's an easier life I tell yah.

Get yourself a decent parasol.

[woohoo]

In any case, I've seen you lurking around Le Havre ferry terminal before in your working skirt, so don't you get all holier-than-thou.

I wasnt getting holier-than-thou; there's me parading myself in my short mini skirt, high heels for hours and hours. Yet there they sit on chairs by the side of the road, lazy so and so's. I'm moving to Spain it's an easier life I tell yah.

[northernladyuk]

It's in Northern France, even your unholy nighttime actives have not worked the way to this beautifully unspoiled part of the world.

On a related note, in Spain women in the daytime sit at the corner of the road selling oranges, well pretending...they are actually selling sex.

More roundabouts really. But crossroads are historically associated with prostitution, witchcraft and news / gossip (trivia= the point where three roads meet).



In any case, I've seen you lurking around Le Havre ferry terminal before in your working skirt, so don't you get all holier-than-thou.

[woohoo]

One what was working the road. Is this about Seaforth Dock again?

It's in Northern France, even your unholy nighttime actives have not worked the way to this beautifully unspoiled part of the world.

On a related note, in Spain women in the daytime sit at the corner of the road selling oranges, well pretending...they are actually selling sex.

[northernladyuk]

It was at night and know one was working on the road.

One what was working the road. Is this about Seaforth Dock again?

[northernladyuk]

I'd also like to add that I ddn't get the compensation that would normally be owed after a delay of >= 1 hour because > 1 TOC was involved.

Ebsolutely scendalous.

Sounds like the problem is too much free market competition, leading to a fractured service across multiple train operating companies. What you want is nationalisation.

[woohoo]

So you’ve never been through a set of roadworks when they are lifting them? They start at the back and work to the front, the last thing to come down are the diversion signs, might be beyond your intelligence, but if they take the diversion signs down before the road is reopened, then everyone ends up queueing in stationary traffic.

It was at night and know one was working on the road.

[Pip in a Poke]

Oh and it's not just the roads that are the target of my ire at the moment.

Customer service on the railways is another bugbear of mine.

Why? It took me 3 1/2 hours to get from Chippenham to Worcester last Saturday all because I was late arriving for my connecting service thanks to FGW. But the way I was treated as an annoying inconvenience and dismissed in an offhand manner by the jobsworth BR guy on the train made me bloody furious.

Read a transcript of the conversation & see if wouldn't have been bloody furious.

It went something like this:

Jobsworth BR guy: Tickets please

The Gal: Why are we running late?

Jobsworth BR guy: We had to detrain an undesirable at Oldfield Park

The Gal: Inneresting, I'm sure but owing to the late running of this service, I am likely to miss my connection at Bristol Temple Meads. What do you intend doing to help me out of this dilemma?

Jobsworth BR guy: Where are you going?

The Gal: Worcester Shrub Hill

Jobsworth BR guy: That's Virgin Trains - it's a different TOC

The Gal: So?

Jobsworth BR guy: Nothing to do with us , love.

The Gal: Can you not at least phone ahead and ask for the station to hold the train since there are a number of passengers for that service on board this train?

Jobsworth BR guy: They won't do that, they've got targets, y'know...

The Gal: What about the target to do with letters of complaint from disgruntled customers?

Jobsworth BR guy: As I said, nothing to do with us, love.

The Gal: So what do you suggest I do?

(and this is the comment that made me absolutely apoplectic)

Jobsworth BR guy: Just go with the flow, love


Go with the flow?? In what other business in a free market economy would that individual still have a job? Seriously.... :tantrum

I'd also like to add that I ddn't get the compensation that would normally be owed after a delay of >= 1 hour because > 1 TOC was involved.

Ebsolutely scendalous.

[WTFH]

The road was advertised as closed, you can then select an alt route on sat nav. We choose to ignore the alt route and see if the where diversions sign posted. Ended up that one lane was open.

I forget I'm dealing with prize dicks like you.

So you’ve never been through a set of roadworks when they are lifting them? They start at the back and work to the front, the last thing to come down are the diversion signs, might be beyond your intelligence, but if they take the diversion signs down before the road is reopened, then everyone ends up queueing in stationary traffic.

[northernladyuk]

I've wondered for a while why they can't have roads made up of tiles or squares. You just pull up and replace the bits that need replacing. As you suggested you could use a big huge machine.

I know the cost would be astronomical but it would be cool. A hover car would be even better. Or spider cars that could traverse even the most bumpy road.

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