Roland Perry wrote:

In message
, at
07:07:41 on Mon, 18 Feb 2008, "
remarked:
So in total, I waited for almost 18 mins on the platform! This is
really an unacceptable service.

You Londonders just don't realise how good you have it. Most of the
trains where I live only run once an hour, twice if you are really
lucky!
--
Roland Perry


I certainly take your point Roland, however tens of thousands of
people in London are relying on these trains to take them to or from
work, which isn't the case in Notts - it would be great if it was, but
it ain't. In a way being philosophical and stoical about it sounds
like a good idea, however I think that attitude can mean the pressure
is somewhat taken off the operator (in this case LU - in the broadest
sense, so I include Tube Lines in that) from getting it right - I
think Metro systems elsewhere in the world are far less tolerant of
'operating issues', whatever they may be. Of course one should balance
that against the fact that LU was starved of funds for years, and only
in the past few years have big improvements really started to take
shape. When the Jubilee eventually fully switches over to ATO I expect
that its level of performance will go right up.

Meanwhile I think it's a good idea for people to be equally demanding
of railway operations all across Britain, though it does seem that in
many places people have broadly given up on such hopes and are merely
thankful that a service of sorts operates at all.