As a Londoner, I now resent bikes, because they hold up bendy buses for absolutely AGES
Look on the bright side. Our local council has just closed off, without warning, all the sensible routes through the center of town for us to get home by (divering traffic onto either more crowded roads or a mile-long detour), and now we discover that the rail platform we get off at in the evening on the way home will be closed for 3 months. I don't remember them doing this when Greenwich got its DLR. The alternative station is one I'd much rather go to in the morning than in the late evening....
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Date: 2006-02-01 12:00 am (UTC)Look on the bright side. Our local council has just closed off, without warning, all the sensible routes through the center of town for us to get home by (divering traffic onto either more crowded roads or a mile-long detour), and now we discover that the rail platform we get off at in the evening on the way home will be closed for 3 months. I don't remember them doing this when Greenwich got its DLR. The alternative station is one I'd much rather go to in the morning than in the late evening....