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The Older Gentleman wrote:
> True. The delicious irony is that he's given comprehensive public
> transport instructions to a group of diehard motorcyclists, and in so
> doing, pointed out that a significant chunk of the network is actually
> FUBAR'd on the day in question

significant chunks of the network are fubared nearly every day of the
week. there's a whole page of metro just to keep you up to date with
exactly which chunks are fubared on any particular day.
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On 24 Jan 2008 09:01:50 GMT, in
<479853fe$0$13926$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>, dog <dog.RemoveThis@dev.null> wrote:

>The Older Gentleman wrote:
>> True. The delicious irony is that he's given comprehensive public
>> transport instructions to a group of diehard motorcyclists, and in so
>> doing, pointed out that a significant chunk of the network is actually
>> FUBAR'd on the day in question
>
>significant chunks of the network are fubared nearly every day of the
>week. there's a whole page of metro just to keep you up to date with
>exactly which chunks are fubared on any particular day.

They consider it a success when they're able to accurately state which
bits are borked on any particular day.

A bit like some systems I was working on at BA some years back, whose
measure of success was being able to inform passengers of their
luggage losses and expected arrival whil they were still at the
airport - efforts to stop or redcue baggage loss may, or may not, have
been going on, but it's a sad reflection on these things that the
whole systems and teams of people are dedicated to mitigating the
effects of poor service, rather than being able to concentrate on the
service itself.
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Champ wrote:

> See the section headed "DERIVATION OFF THE RAILS" at
> http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/503/letters.htm

"If you try to extract from the OED all the -ee suffix words which are
nouns you get a list of 329 words"

I bet he's a hit with the girls.

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:52:33 +0000, SD <salad.dodger.DeleteThis@dsl.pipex.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:03:44 +0000, Paul Corfield
><aooy65.DeleteThis@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>
>><blush>
>
>Never mind blushing: can you have a word with the powers that be to
>the effect that a hand-scrawled note in coloured crayon, informing
>passengers that the East London Line station at Shadwell will be
>closed until mid two-thousand-and-TEN does not look *desperately*
>professional, even if you do station (hah) some poor sod outside the
>gates to turn away prospective passengers.

This is Shadwell you are talking about?

>Thankyou.

There are announcements every 20 seconds that the East London is closed.
It was plastered all over the newspapers up to 22 December last year
that it was closing. The TfL website tells you it is closed. There are
stonking big "Rail Replacement Bus" signs on the side of double decks
circumnavigating Wapping and Shadwell north of the water and round
Rotherhithe and New Cross to the South.

I didn't think you made use of the tube anyway? I thought you were
strictly a two wheel person and then DLR only as an act of desperation?

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:09:58 +0100, Ace <seesig.DeleteThis@ifrance.com> wrote:

>On 24 Jan 2008 09:01:50 GMT, in
><479853fe$0$13926$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>, dog <dog.DeleteThis@dev.null> wrote:
>
>>The Older Gentleman wrote:
>>> True. The delicious irony is that he's given comprehensive public
>>> transport instructions to a group of diehard motorcyclists, and in so
>>> doing, pointed out that a significant chunk of the network is actually
>>> FUBAR'd on the day in question
>>
>>significant chunks of the network are fubared nearly every day of the
>>week. there's a whole page of metro just to keep you up to date with
>>exactly which chunks are fubared on any particular day.
>
>They consider it a success when they're able to accurately state which
>bits are borked on any particular day.

I'll bite. You're wrong on this - completely and utterly wrong.

>A bit like some systems I was working on at BA some years back, whose
>measure of success was being able to inform passengers of their
>luggage losses and expected arrival whil they were still at the
>airport - efforts to stop or redcue baggage loss may, or may not, have
>been going on, but it's a sad reflection on these things that the
>whole systems and teams of people are dedicated to mitigating the
>effects of poor service, rather than being able to concentrate on the
>service itself.

There is loads going on to improve the tube. In the meantime there is a
drive from our MD that we must keep our passengers informed as to what
is going on. By and large that strategy is working - simple things like
the line status boards are a very helpful addition to allow you to
travel with confidence.

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:12:31 +0000, Paul Corfield
<aooy65.RemoveThis@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>There are announcements every 20 seconds that the East London is closed.
>It was plastered all over the newspapers up to 22 December last year
>that it was closing. The TfL website tells you it is closed. There are
>stonking big "Rail Replacement Bus" signs on the side of double decks
>circumnavigating Wapping and Shadwell north of the water and round
>Rotherhithe and New Cross to the South.

So, they've spent so much money, there's none left for a half-decent
notice?
>
>I didn't think you made use of the tube anyway? I thought you were
>strictly a two wheel person and then DLR only as an act of desperation?

I don't, but I do ride down Cable St every morning, and I feel sorry
for the LUL droid stood outside the gates of a closed station.
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Paul Corfield wrote:
> There is loads going on to improve the tube. In the meantime there is a
> drive from our MD that we must keep our passengers informed as to what
> is going on. By and large that strategy is working - simple things like
> the line status boards are a very helpful addition to allow you to
> travel with confidence.

i want to travel with a difference kind of confidence, though - the
expectation that my public transport will actually arrive at the time it
says on the timetable, and be cheap - a lot cheaper than me using my own
transport, due to economy of scale. the "confidence" that i might be told
that there is a delay or a cancellation, and even what the reason for it
might be, is little consolation for the fact that i can't get to where i
want to go at the time i expected to be able to, and i've still been
charged more than it would have cost to do it all myself for the
privilege.
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:16:20 +0000, in
<0rvhp35uccn8mipt0vvra4f5tijovtjd5c DeleteThis @4ax.com>, Paul Corfield
<aooy65 DeleteThis @dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:09:58 +0100, Ace <seesig DeleteThis @ifrance.com> wrote:
>
>>On 24 Jan 2008 09:01:50 GMT, in
>><479853fe$0$13926$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>, dog <dog DeleteThis @dev.null> wrote:

>>>significant chunks of the network are fubared nearly every day of the
>>>week. there's a whole page of metro just to keep you up to date with
>>>exactly which chunks are fubared on any particular day.
>>
>>They consider it a success when they're able to accurately state which
>>bits are borked on any particular day.
>
>I'll bite. You're wrong on this - completely and utterly wrong.

I expected nothing less.

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On 25 Jan 2008 09:02:45 GMT, in
<4799a5b5$0$13937$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>, dog <dog.DeleteThis@dev.null> wrote:

>Paul Corfield wrote:
>> There is loads going on to improve the tube. In the meantime there is a
>> drive from our MD that we must keep our passengers informed as to what
>> is going on. By and large that strategy is working - simple things like
>> the line status boards are a very helpful addition to allow you to
>> travel with confidence.
>
>i want to travel with a difference kind of confidence, though - the
>expectation that my public transport will actually arrive at the time it
>says on the timetable, and be cheap - a lot cheaper than me using my own
>transport, due to economy of scale.

You moved back to the wrong country then.

Oddly enough, I very rarely use the tram/bus/rail system in
Switzerland. I very much like the fact that it exists, is reliable,
clean and cheap, and is used by much of the population as their
transpart of choice.

But for me, I just like to get there faster, which is nearly always
the case for driving vs. trains, usually significantly so, like 1.25
hours from Basel to Engelberg by road c/w 2.5 by rail. Plus we've got
so much in the habit of carting shedloads of (ski) gear with us all
the time that it's a right PITA getting on and off trains with it.

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