On Mar 12, 6:43*pm, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 12/03/2011 17:53, NM wrote:



On Mar 6, 2:18 pm, Neil *wrote:
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:22:21 -0600, (Roy Badami)
wrote:

I'm not sure I can think of any mode of transport that combines
*all*
of those (clearly desirable) elements.

A car can, though it misses the "arrives at a predictable time" one
on occasions.

Train? Punctuality? I would expect the car to be considerably more 'on
time' going by my own experience, trains are not even classed as late
until they are 10 minutes behind, this causes the punctuality figures
to look a lot better than they are, some people would say that is
lying.

Whereas cars don't have a scheduled arrival time, so whatever happens at
the Dartford crossing/M25/traffic lights they can never be "late". But
they can be unpredictable, going by the number of times I pick up the
office phone in the morning to hear "I'm stuck in a traffic jam at xxx".

--
Arthur Figgis * * * * * * * * Surrey, UK

And train arrivals are predictable? they can be 10 minutes late before
it even counts as officially late, built in cushion to mask their poor
performance. You remind me of the old Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter
RIP) with the daily standing joke about his late arrival down to the
railways, I don't think he arrived on time even once, comedy, yes but
based on reality.