No online information during storms
 

"Neil Spellings" wrote in message
.. .
I'd like to congratulate National Rail, Transport for London, Southern
Trains and the BBC for all failing to provide any kind of up-to-date
travel information on station closures during the storms on Thursday.

SNIP

Neil


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For me, the highlight of the day was when I looked on the Southeastern
website to see if there was any information I could relay to my misses who
was stuck on one of their trains - it read

"The Southeastern website is currently down due to the volume of demand"

(I looked up the definition of irony in the dictionary afterwards)

Seems little point in having these systems that work when nobody needs them
but then they completely fail when they are needed.

No online information during storms
 

Not Rail I know, but both RAC.co.uk and trafficmap.co.uk sites seem to crash
providing the famous "page cannot be displayed". Just the one day of the
year when I need them to work too.

No online information during storms
 

In article , Frank Incense
writes
Not Rail I know, but both RAC.co.uk and trafficmap.co.uk sites seem to crash
providing the famous "page cannot be displayed". Just the one day of the
year when I need them to work too.



Quite..

Round this way BBC radio Cambs fell over on their VHF transmitter just
when I needed them for information!, but this is the best way of giving
out such info by Radio but there needs to be better coverage nation-
wide. For instance I was very interested in what "one" were up to around
the Stortford area, but their website fell over as did many other's and
BBC radio Essex was anally occupied with what was going on at Sarffend
on Sea seafront.. suppose it was more fun?..

As to anywhere else zilch. What's needed it seems is an emergency
channel radio system bit like radio autoroute in France on 107.7 MHz
IIRC.

Anyone should be able to receive the info they need especially mobile
AND at home, and work a battery wireless would take far, far less
current than a PC useful if your lights have gone out!..

However this would require some disaster planning ..something the UK
isn't that good at.....
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Tony Sayer