A Commuter Protests!

[metalboxproducts]

dunno if the situation is similar here in american south, but still sort of fucked up:

thou its the railway [the only passenger railway, Amtrak] and not the metro or Greyhound, i recently tried to book a roundtrip ticket from north texas to austin. this is an estimated 4.5 hr trip and costs between $43 and $60. the rail is supposed to take less time than Greyhound, be less crowded, and cost less.. so of course i book the rail

come to find out theyve been bussing people due to railwork. delays are several hours and they make no apologies. the guy said to me "if youre riding a train you can't complain, you just have to take off your watch and enjoy the ride". i couldnt help but laugh in disbelief.

even when they are bussing people, the delays are still several hours. and they make no concessions or inform you of how long the delay will be until you nearly board the train/bus.

these delays are pretty inconvenient when you have no transportation yourself and rely on the metro once you get to your destination. or what about people with disabilities who have difficulty sitting that long on a train, etc. and the crazy thing is they get away with it because theyve had a monopoly on the country's passenger rail operations since 1971.
furthermore it's almost impossible for anyone to afford a plane ticket anymore, people can barely afford gas for their cars.

the customer service guy tried to tell me the several hours of rail delays is normal and that the trains run on signals blah blah. point of the matter is its really unreliable and the mass transit system in texas is fucked from what ive seen [including city metros]. i wish it werent so, seems like it almost forces people to drive to get anywhere on time

Yeah i read an article about Amtrak a while back. The company's losing loads of money. I heard a rumour they were thinking of shutting New yorks grand central station . There subsidised by your government aswell

[shonky]

Yeah, I think the things that put me off London the most are

a/ the price of everything
b/ transport

And there's no beach!

I wouldn't call alot of pebbles a beach. You should goto blackpool. Seven miles of shit incrusted golden sands..

Might not have sand (apart from that wierd imported rectangle of sand that's been introduced to the bit near the Volks), but it's nice to be able to stare out to sea and not have the rest of the modern world in view (apart from the yuppy stnuc on their boats and jetskis who anyone with any decency should use as target practice). I know you got parks, but we got parks too and only a 20 minute bus ride from the south downs which is nice.

So thar

[gravious]

Move to the Netherlands.

Seriously, their public transport system is like clockwork, and all the buses trams and trains I've been on there have been smooth as fuck.

Also they have special lanes in the middle of the road just for trams/buses.

Although a lot of it is only possible because a lot of the country was bombed flat in the '40s, allowing roads to be rebuilt appropriately.




Glasgow tube is efficient, but there is one line, and it goes like this:

So theres not too many locations available

[bagelator]

Move to the Netherlands.

Seriously, their public transport system is like clockwork, and all the buses trams and trains I've been on there have been smooth as fuck.

Also they have special lanes in the middle of the road just for trams/buses.

Although a lot of it is only possible because a lot of the country was bombed flat in the '40s, allowing roads to be rebuilt appropriately.




Glasgow tube is efficient, but there is one line, and it goes like this:

So theres not too many locations available

thumbs up. the germans and french know they trains and all. props to my man makai who just did paris to amsterdam without paying, although it took him 25 hrs

[bedward]

beneath the pavement, the beach.

[pk-]

i'll take a photo of our metro's to show ya how public transport shold be

you're joking lol

it's a moving playground for scallies

[djshiva]

The railways are notoriois. Bob Kiley say's there the worst in any developed country. Infact the whole public transport infastructure is fucked basicly. It's a wander anybody gets too on time. In any other country it would couse a public revolt. . That's what badly planned privatization does. Blame Thatcher.

sounds lousy, but i would be willing to bet that the US public transportation system is even worse. considering that it's city by city, with hardly any between city railways (unless you are on the east coast), it's pretty bad.

in my city (indianapolis), you pretty much need a car or you are not getting to work. if you do, it will take you 2 hours to go 10 minutes away, or there won't be a route that gets you where you need to go.

i can't even get to my hometown by bus anymore, because a 4 hour drive that used to be a 4 hour bus ride, is now 11 hours!!! ridiculous!!!

p.s. privatization fucking stinks.

p.p.s. that sign is fuckin' brilliant!!!

[metalboxproducts]

i can't even get to my hometown by bus anymore, because a 4 hour drive that used to be a 4 hour bus ride, is now 11 hours!!! ridiculous!!!

[djshiva]

i can't even get to my hometown by bus anymore, because a 4 hour drive that used to be a 4 hour bus ride, is now 11 hours!!! ridiculous!!!

yeah...dumb ain't it? they totally changed the route so you go in a completely different direction (west) to go there (south).

hate it.

[boomnoise]

london is just simply over crowded, too may ppl too close together


travel up north is fine.



I hate the underground

when i lived in slough (fuk knows why) i had to travel to victoria then from victoria to trafalgar. i always used to get aggro with ppl in suits tryin to push me about for 1cm arm room, i was givin it "nee chance sonna just payed daft amounts for this journy this is MYSPACE"

[vertigo]

I cannot imagine a note from the Metro in NY asking for pardon for all the rats, the lack of air conditioner, the garbage, the delays ,........