Pity those Londoners
Saw on the news all the wailing and moaning about the difficulty of getting into work for those living in London.
If it helps -
- We have no Tube system round our way.
- The nearest station is 5 miles away, with about one train per hour, going to two towns that I never go to.
- I think there are a few buses each day, not sure where they go to.
But somehow, we manage.
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I am sure Londoners will appreciate your sympathy as you clearly have no perception of how difficult it is to get to work in London without public transport. Using a car, which most people outside London would use, is not an option. If the Underground is not working buses can't make up the capacity. Even within London it can take a hour to get to work when everything is working so not much fun for all those people responsible for providing a quarter of the UK's wealth? As for people moaning about it perhaps we all would if our jobs were at risk?
David
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A previous poster posted Quote :-
"The United Kingdoms of :-
LONDON, England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland
Not necessarily in that order but always LONDON first" end quote..
Strangely enough, we who don't live in London just get on with our lives when difficulties occur. There is always a way round transport challenges as has been seen year after year.in the rest of the country. We can all adapt to a temporary break in routine
Seemingly not in London.
Cheers..................K
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And of course those who do not live in London and who have visited London,must have been walking round with their eyes closed if they think that living and working in the Capital City is a no different from being in the "other" areas of country,when just one of the ,10 Terminal stations has nearly 100,000,000 passengers per year as there are not just one or two terminal stations as is the case in all other parts of the country
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Indeed, LONDON is different from the rest of the country. If you asked me I would say it was stupid being that way, but many generations have chosen to live like that and lots of people now see it as "normal".
Ten Terminal Stations? Any terminal station? Any station? Any railway? not here. Oh, and most of the buses go to the town on either side, apart from the occasional random one that turns up with a destination further afield.
Any time I have been in LONDON I have shocked the locals I'm working with by WALKING to places.
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The answer, as we all know, is NOT to concentrate all the jobs in one city, (The Capital city of England ) but to spread the work around the country. That way London would not be so clogged up, overcrowded and congested. Their Transport systems would be less busy.
Now that IT wide area networking has been perfected. There is no need to have millions of workers descending daily on one comparatively small area in the country. Companies can communicate with other areas of their business and their clients on line, just as easily as speaking face to face.
While I was working, London was a destination I regularly visited, flying down to meetings and presentations, staying in some of the nicer hotels and doing the sights at night. That was part of the job.
Now I'm retired would I ever go to London during my leisure time?.
Not on your Nellie
Cheers.................K
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I too thank goodness for retirement as my husband spent all his working life in the capitol, the option to just go and work elsewhere would have caused serious consequences if everyone in his line of work did it, especially back when London was being bombed by the IRA or other extremists, or in the case of the Kings Cross fire or London buses exploding, yes he attended at all those incidents as did all the hospital staff, ambulance services and of course the police too, for them there is not the option to just take a few days off when there is a strike - you get there by hook or by crook and - often - stayed there for the duration. It is good that some have sympathy for the predicament many London workers are finding themselves in at the moment, but personally I am saddened by the 'smug' few who appear to have no conception of the difficulties of keeping a major city functioning at ALL times.
Alison
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Is that so --- I'm sure there is as much, if not more talent in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast ETC - but if it's your belief that Londonshire is financing everywhere in the UK by all means you are entitled to that opinion, But ---------- please don't mind if others have a more intellectually rational opinion.
Cheers........................K
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What ! ! Even the rest of the country (UK) where doors already close themselves!
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K
If it was that simple I am sure many companies would jump at the opportunity to move to other parts of the UK as for one thing you could argue it would be cheaper and offer employees in many case a better quality of life. However London, and I suppose you could include all of the south east England has the power to draw talented people from not only the UK but from the rest of the world. So if a company that needs specialist skills move way out of London what happens when they want more staff with similar skills which are not available locally. If they stay in London they know those skills will be available with not many problems. It's not an ideal situation but it is what we have. Governments have tried moving institutions out of London with very mixed success. I have never worked in London but through my work had to visit fairly frequently so got to know parts of London quite well. It is still a really wonderful place to visit, even if retired as there is so much to see and do. Us tourists don't make it any easier for those who have to work there.
David
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My son in law lives in Putney and commutes to Sunbury by bike. Perhaps more use could be made of all those 'Boris bikes' that are lined up in rows.
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The overall point made by the rail unions (I used to be a member) is that of safety with Driver Only Operation (D.O.O.)
However I and millions of others are mystified as to why that should be so - to the point of striking - when Health & Safety Executive have ruled the proposed changes are safe, subject only to a few amendments that the HSE require.
I would have to accuse the rail unions of cowardice in light of this revelation. They only appear to be concerned that retiring members will not be replaced on trains. After all, DOO trains run in all other parts of the UK quite successfully.
So, come on Unions - stop being luddites - do the job you are paid to do!
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An elderly neighbour was telling me last week about his equally elderly brother who still lives in the family home in a village between Mold and Holywell in Flintshire. He has had his driving licence revokeddue to failing eyesight and relies on the twice daily bus service to get to these towns, both of which have a community hospital which he attends regularlyas well as coming in to do his shopping etc.
He has just found out that the bus service will stop calling to his village due to "cut backs".
Londoners will soon be back to normal whilst George won't. I know who I sympathise and empathise more with.
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I'm not interested in the politics nor the sneering or shoulder chips. I feel for the everyday folk that call London their home & London their work place. It can't be easy faced with these problems & frustrations when you are constantly let down by all sides. They have families, they have jobs, they also have stresses at a level I shudder at. Londoners & London workers some of us care about your plight. Good luck to you all.
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We have the same with the rural bus services here,on one route there was a very vocal campaign to keep it running,but even that was not helped when a survey was taken and only one or two persons,used the bus for most of its route on most days after the school children had used it,it is up to the local council for funding,
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I heard one of the poor Londoners moaning that he had to walk home from work......and it took him an hour to do so!
If only!
I wonder if these cosetted people had any sympathy for me, when I had to drive 70 miles each way to work, for 4 years?
In fact, I have rarely worked within an hour's drive of home.......you have to go where the work is.
The spending on public transport in the south east is massively more, per person of the population, than anywhere else in the UK. And the spending goes on apace, with schemes such as Crossrail sucking in billions of pounds.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have to sort out our own transport.
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