welcome to the rush hour. bah.
 

What should have been a 20 minute bus ride home took nearly an hour and a half.

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I finished work at 6, got home 7.30.


At least I had a decent seat on the bus.

I hate that.
I'm currently training for my new job and it's in Surrey...I'm in London.
It takes me an hour and a half without traffic.

The pain of public transport but still less hassle than it would be to drive it I'm guessing?!?

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I guess.
I can't drive. So, it's walk or bus, basically. I'd have got home faster walking, but I was tired, and it was dark.

Besides the cruddy bus trip, how did work go?

Its worse in winter when its raining. The windows misted in condensation and just that hiddeous damp feeling of gloom as you inch home ever slower.

*now remembers why i opted for my car or the train*

I was asleep when you posted, Irene!

At least my work today is a 20 minute walk. In what looks like the rain!

I think the problem yesterday was some kind of unexpected traffic jam/roadworks...
I'll check the tfl site before I head home on Thursday, and if the roads look iffy I'll walk! Or get 2 buses and go the other way around.

Yes, Jess, work went well.
I shut down at 5pm, but that was because I hadn't eaten a proper lunch. I'll eat properly on Thursday, my next afternoon there.

*cuddles* i'm glad it went well honey. :)

Where is the job? I used to work for the trains, some routes are deff better than others!

The best thing about working shifts and free train journeys is that I never had to do rush hour tube or bus.

But it's not just rush hour when the buses go slow, I was in bus with road works about 7pm saturday, what should have been a 15 min max ride took almost an hour, my baby wasn't impressed and let the whole bus know. Luckily I was with a few friends otherwise I would of got so desperate I'd have walked, very dodgy area in the dark with bubba

Ooo rushhaur is bad...


I don't drive, but takes me 40mins to walk from my flat to uni, 20mins by bus on a good day... at the moment though as I keep being in practicals until 6 and there are 2 patches of road works between my flat and here and I have to get 2 buses anyway it can take upto 2 hours to get home :O would walk... but it's aberdeen and autumn now... so cold and wet and nasty...

My job used to be a 15 minute car journey from my house. In rush hour, on the bus it used to take and hour and a half. That's how long my partner takes to get to his job in LONDON on the train (we live on the sussex coast)!

I know. I could have got to my parents in SE London/Kent in that time, and it was only the next but one mini-NW-London-suburb along!

Ergh, I hate rush hour!
I'm not too bad on buses, but on packed out rush hour trains i'm prone to a panic attack. It's horrible!

I live in a NW London suburb too!

That's why I'm glad I have a car. I hate takin the bus, too many homeless people on it.

I always have to choose a good seat on the bus, to lessen chance of panic attack and such.
I've gone back to front in some ways, because I used to be able to handle trains and not buses, and now it's the other way round.
Just as well, as buses are the main way to get around where I live now.

I looked on tfl this morning, and that bus route was running normally. I will keep an eye on tfl...

Ok, you want a day from hell? I'll give you one.
I left my house at 7.30. I got to the Oval at 8.13.
Only to discover that a tube had derailed (empty you'll be glad to know) at the station I get off at for work. But also closed 4 stops ahead so no point in going to one with any intention to get a bus from the next stop. Not possible.
So I thought well I'm at the Northern line, go back to London Bridge and get an overland.
I was underground for over an hour. To be exact I couldn't even get near a tube to London Bridge until 9.20.
I got to London Bridge and their trains don't go to Morden South until 16.58 or 17.49. Why this is I do not know.
So I ask information and subsequently spend the next 10 minutes repeating the word M O R D E N. I even spelt it 3 times.
He said go to Tulse Hill and change. So I did.
Got to Tulse Hill at 10.35
Got to Morden South at 11.05
Then had to get a bus to the road I work on.
(I should explain I am currently training at Head Office - in Surrey and I love in South East London)

Got the bus, called my Mum to look on the net and see how many stops it was so I didn't get lost.

Got to work at 11.26.

B U L L S H I T

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