On 9 May, 21:13, Arthur Figgis wrote:
Boltar wrote:
On May 8, 9:25 pm, Simon wrote:
You are just being silly. TfL provide cheap and excitant travel for
Londoners.

Sorry , that joke is lost on me , it must be too early in the morning.

It's true, though. Try elsewhere in the country. See what response you
get in Hull to something like "the 01.00 bus was a whole 10 min late,
and they only run every 20 min".

No offence to Hull but its hardly a seething metropolis. I won't deny
that public transport in this country frankly is **** - every
reasonable size city in germany and quite number in france have a
metro system. Here what do we have: london , a toytown subway in
glasgow , the newcastle metro which has a service lousy enough to
rival the northern line in the bad old days and liverpools
"underground" which is really just a suburban NR system with a few
underground stations.
Other large cities had nothing until recently when some cut price
trams rocked up. Cities like brum and manchester need proper
underground systems , not trams and yet more buses.

B2003