(no subject)

[ewt]

Travel is messy today. this map shows, in colour, lines that are having delays. It's a real-time map, so it'll change throughout the day.

Yeah.

Right now? The Hammersmith & City line is okay, as is the DLR. The Waterloo & City is alright too but no surprise as it's entirely underground. There are four additional lines running with only minor delays; the rest have severe delays.

I think I'm entitled to whinge at this one. It's less than 5cm of snow, and nobody can go anywhere. Ridiculous. And I did put it behind a cut, so serves you absolutely right if you didn't want to read it.

At least the TFL website can cope with the traffic. That's more than I can say for National Rail.

Comments

[owlfish]

That's impressively disrupted!

[jaq.livejournal.com]

My impression is that there isn't regular enough snow here for it to be worth having much equipment to deal with it.

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. And adding to that the reactions of people who are not used to these severe weather conditions. Even the traffic on the roads today was thicker than usual and even coming to a standstill a few times, despite the fact that there was not a single flake of snow on the entire road from where I live to the office (6 miles through south Beds/north Herts).

[karen2205]

We get little bits of everything - wind, snow, heat waves, the wrong kinds of leaves, rain and stuff hasn't been designed to function in our little bits of everything. Even where individual things are capable of working the machinations of the rest of the transport system they're joined up with means everything gets slowed down.

But, we get freezing temperatures every winter, even during the mild ones, there's no excuse for points freezing (as has caused some mainline rail services to be delayed). Nor is there really any excuse for major disruption on the tube.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

The cost of dealing with it for the small amount of time that it happens for versus the cost of not dealing with it and having delays one or two days a year still comes out in favour of having the delays, AIUI.

[fluffymark]

I don't believe it's that bad at all. I had no delays from Leytonstone to Wimbledon, which includes both overground tube and train sections. In fact, I think I've just done the journey in record time (45 minutes).

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I, mind you, have just spent longer getting to the office than it would take to walk on a normal day... I agree though, it's all a nice change, not worth spending billions of pounds just so we aren't late two days a year.

[561.livejournal.com]

I suppose that the other way of viewing this is that it would be a waste of a lot of time and money to make services (nearly anything in fact) able to cope with snow. We don't get enough snow and we don't get it very often and most people are quite happy to see it was a welcome break from grey-rain and have a good old british moan about how dreadful everything is and with stiff upper lips just try and muddle through.

Really, we enjoy this kind of thing. But seriously, I don't really care if snow == transport stops since it hardly ever snows and it is all part of the fun. If you are lucky you get a day off school too (because of the transport thing) and this means you get to make a snowman!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

My transport worked just the same as it did yesterday.