I have been away constant reader(s). Do not be sad at my having momentarily left you, I have returned and am altogether the better for it.
Although really I'd rather still be away. There is nothing to bring you back to the mundanity and idiocy of London than returning on a weekend and daring to use public transport.
Why is London Underground such a joke? How can Paris and Berlin operate such better services, with more complexity and a far slimmer price? Why are we constantly being shafted by TfL?
No one is fooled by their ridiculous advertising, you would have to be a tourist or a bonefide moron to fall for it.
E.G.They hiked the prices up on the buses from 80p to £1, and then slathered posters everywhere a few weeks later saying "bus fares slashed to 90p!". NO TfL! BUS FARES BLOODY INCREASED BY 10P!
Ditto tube fares. They were £1 for a 1 zone journey, then they were risen to £2 before 'plummeting' to £1.50 with only the last stage advertised.
And on top of that they subject us to moronic or just plain offensive advertising. Do you recall those awful boob job ads? People on their way to work in the morning are usually miserable enough before being informed that they are physically unacceptable in the chest. And what about children going to school? Must the first lesson of the day be that they are not permitted to have a healthy body image? That the unnatural act of surgery to physically alter your normal state is actually desirable?
TfL makes me so angry. Expect more vitriol in their direction.
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Transport for London: "In the continued and inevitable pursuit of the Marxist-Leninist, scientific socialist new society, your season's harvest of grain will be requisitioned by the Party until further notice..."
Soviet Communist Congress: "Due to the continued upgrade of the London Underground Network, there will be no service on the District line until further notice..."
BAM - HISTORY!
Years of inadequate maintenance on the cheap, is the problem - a particularly British phenomenon.
To be fair, some of the lines are showing their 140-year old age, but that's no excuse for the Jubilee line extension - or some of the incredibly rude staff!
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