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Batman55 · January 13th 10, 09:57 PM posted to uk.transport.london

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:45:02 +0000 (UTC), d 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.

No, no - you're in your own special episode. You do realise that LUL has
commissioned a special Boltar detector and when we know you are on the
system the random failure and delay generator swings into action. It is
our sole role in life to delay you and drive your bile gland into
overdrive. I'm not sure that we have programmed "igloo construction" as
a scenario but I am sure we could get someone to build one on the tracks
just to delay your particular train.

We only do it because we really, really love all our customers called
Boltar!

--
Paul C

At least OP was lucky enough to have trains "backing up". On Southeastern
they seem to have melted away, unlike the few cm of snow that caused the
problem. Once you got on a train, all was well. There just weren't many of
them around!

MaxB