On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:00:21 -0000, "David B"
wrote:

IMHO if you need to be somewhere at a certain time, moreso if you have an
appointment or interview, you simply have to add extra slack to guarantee
arriving on time. I think this applies whether you use public transport or
your own car, the difference being that if you use your own vehicle, you
can't blame someone else for not providing a service if there is a traffic
jam due to an accident or breakdown. If people generally left earlier, their
journeys would be less stressed

Oh, indeed, and I tend to do most long distance journeys in that
manner, and similarly any short-distance ones that are time-critical.

It's just that, regardless of the practicality of the situation, if a
10-minute journey takes 20 minutes, that's rather more annoying than
if a 6 hour journey takes 6.5 hours!

Neil

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