Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Parking at felt ham?

There's easy parking there, but it would be a nightmare drive - through the northern bit of the City, then central, then the West End and Knightsbridge etc. The roads will be packed jammed, because of the strike.

The worst that can happen with public transport is that I need to walk to Waterloo to get the overground, and it's not that far - about 2.5 miles each way. Walking 5 miles in a day isn't going to do me any harm (although I'll probably get very wet, the way the weather is at the moment).

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

At those prices, yes you will madam!!

Although you might look at the bigger picture and think "I'm loaded, I'll suck it up for my own sanity/safety and I'd hate to get morning sickness among the spitting classes on those days"

If you were silvercar I'd add "... just go easy on your expensive shampoo for the next 3 months, that'll cover it"

£280 in taxis!? I've spent 10% of that on shampoo and conditioner, not quite hundreds of pounds!

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It's about cutting ticket office staff. Which seems pretty bloody inevitable, because so few people actually buy tickets - we all use pay-as-you-go oysters or travelcards now.

It's the way of the world. Shareholders getting richer by replacing jobs/people with technology.

Get some self-driven tube trains in there and the whole network can be run by robots

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There's easy parking there, but it would be a nightmare drive - through the northern bit of the City, then central, then the West End and Knightsbridge etc. The roads will be packed jammed, because of the strike.

The worst that can happen with public transport is that I need to walk to Waterloo to get the overground, and it's not that far - about 2.5 miles each way. Walking 5 miles in a day isn't going to do me any harm (although I'll probably get very wet, the way the weather is at the moment).

I had to do that sort of drive sometimes clerking when I couldn't handle the tube and carrying or just the walking . Stupid drive to just a couple of miles away from where I lived to pick up files then a crawl to some where else. I used to ask for out of London files so at least I had a reason to get in the car!

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's the way of the world. Shareholders getting richer by replacing jobs/people with technology.

Get some self-driven tube trains in there and the whole network can be run by robots

And the robots are less likely to go on strike

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

What is support of tube workers like? Pretty minimal I would guess. There will be friendless trains pretty quickly if they carry on holding a gun to the head of London.


GRRRR.. auto correct strikes again. Driverless, not friendless...

:rotfl:
I like the friendless train

Generali

Apparently a tube driver will be on £50,000+ by the end of next year.

The formula seems simple:

1. Demand a massive pay rise
2. To on strike and bring London to its knees
3. Get a very large pay rise.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/03/tube-drivers-salaries-50000

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

£280 in taxis!? I've spent 10% of that on shampoo and conditioner, not quite hundreds of pounds!

Whilst a student DD volunteered to man a mobile office in Toulon for a Tall Ships event. She had to pay her own travel expenses.

Her flight into Marseille was very late landing, her luggage was missing and her planned train journey to Toulon would have been delayed until the next day. So she took a taxi!

It used up her entire funds. It had not occurred to her to ask the cost.

She was clad in race t shirts for a week.

lostinrates

How's she doing spirit, continued upward trend I hope?

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, I have responded to his plea to go out there...

I've just followed you :eek: