Use tube trains they are safe........ Bollocks

[NorthernRaider]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ation.html

[bigpaul]

NO public transport is safe, too many people, too many attitudes, thats before anything goes wrong.

[Prepared Chick]

This being stuck on the train can a real issue. Years ago I worked in the City (London) and luckily I went to work really early so missed the following drama: - at rush hour the central line got stuck between bethnal green and liverpool street for 5 hours. (why this took so long God knows why) anyway by they time they sorted it all out the had to have ambulances because people where dehydrated. Some had to be put on oxygen because they couldn't breathe etc. My work colleague still came to work, but the state she was in we sent her home.

I think its vitally important to always have a little prep bag with you when you travel everyday on the tube light torch light, portable fan, water, some food like fruit bar/energy bar etc. I have even toyed with with a mini hammer to break the glass if need be - because it is so incredibly packed on the central line - also the air quality is EXTREMELY poor in the tunnels. So i am looking at portible oxygen (I think I saw on Medisave for very reasonable price) - as an asthmatic I think I have to consider oxygen options.

[James Jackson]

being stuck in a tunnel with strang people is the last thing i would call safe, might as well walk in the midle of a road at night and say its safe

[bigpaul]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-18517190 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-17201864

[NorthernRaider]

(20 June 2012, 11:11)bigpaul Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-18517190 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-17201864

HA the Tarka lines its beautiful in places but suffering from Londonitus like up here. Whilst Londonabad getys yet another multi billion line the rail operators were asked by the government to tell them what is the absolute minimum extra number of railway carriages it needs to serve the huge area from Leeds, Manchester, York right the way to Berwick.

90 was the reply from the rail operators, 90 is the absolute minimum we need so the government has funded..............3.

[bigpaul]

(20 June 2012, 13:20)NorthernRaider Wrote:

(20 June 2012, 11:11)bigpaul Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-18517190 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-17201864

HA the Tarka lines its beautiful in places but suffering from Londonitus like up here. Whilst Londonabad getys yet another multi billion line the rail operators were asked by the government to tell them what is the absolute minimum extra number of railway carriages it needs to serve the huge area from Leeds, Manchester, York right the way to Berwick.

90 was the reply from the rail operators, 90 is the absolute minimum we need so the government has funded..............3.

dont you know that the Westminster governments thinks only London is important, the rest of the country can go hang ? every time a minister says he/she is going to "The Westcountry" they go no further west than Bristol or Taunton, the only time they come to Devon or Cornwall is on their holidays!

[Pagan-Mist]

I've used the tube twice and nothing in hell would induce to use it again, I feel sorry for people who do have to use

[NorthernRaider]

We have a big international airport near here, it has flights going all over Europe and the UK, It has a railway station of its own about a mile and half from the passenger terminal.
(A) Their is no connection of buses or taxis from the station, you have to walk, probably because of (B) the train only stops once A WEEK and only in one direction.