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[email protected] · January 13th 10, 03:33 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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wrote:

Went by tube to work again this morning thanks to the council not
bothering to grit roads near me. Trains backing up from arnos grove
and more stalled going towards raynors lane. All due to "the severe
weather" according to the driver. Yeah -1C and 2cm of snow, thats
almost antarctic isn't it. I'm surprised we arn't building igloos on
the platform and breaking out the survival rations. Then delays on the
central line. No excuse heard for that, I guess they'd given up at
that point. Or the excuse book was buried under the snow.

Perhaps we're all in a version of the Truman Show and this is actually a
situation comedy for people to laugh at how we struggle through the
ineptness of public servants.

A work colleague complained how long it took him to get into Waterloo from
Mortlake. I just cycled from Putney. Must have taken all of 5 minutes
longer than normal as I cycled more cautiously over the slippery bits.
Traffic was pretty dreadful.

We just don't do stoicism in the country any more, do we?

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Colin Rosenstiel