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On 19 Jul, 02:28, "Jonathan" wrote:
Public transport has always been awful; and over the past couple of years
I've noticed that more and more often I'm squashed inside a bus or train,
with hardly enough room to breathe, because the company decided to cancel
earlier buses or trains without notice, and without making any
alternative
arrangements.

If there was a decent tube system in south london some of the pressure
would be taken off the overground trains. But the amount of overground
lines has always been used as an excuse for not further extending the
tube south of the river rather than thinking the services could
complement each other. The its-difficult-to-tunnel excuse no longer
holds water in the 21st century so I guess the only obstacle now would
be money as it ever was - we have tight fisted victorians to thank for
the piddly mainline loading gauge meaning we can't have double deck
trains , and the frankly farcical loading gauge on the deep level tube
lines.

B2003


Lots of people I've spoken to about the petition have made lots of seemingly
excellent suggestions as to how public transport might be improved in the
long term.

But this misses the point of the petition, which is that transport operating
companies seem to routinely pull trains, buses and tubes out of service,
without putting any sort of substitute in place. The net result being that
drivers of services after large gaps attempt to solve the problem of the
backlog of passengers by cramming as many people into vehicles as possible.

Ultimately, changes to the system will have to be made, and someone will
have to spend some money upgrading the transport system we have at present.
But even if money is spent, unless transport operating companies stop
pulling vehicles out of service without notice and without providing a
substitute service, then passengers will continue to be frequently
jam-packed into carriages to a point where they almost cannot breathe, and
cannot exit without extreme difficulty.

This is the point of the petition.

I believe that that sort of gross-overcrowding situation is dangerous, and
will result in people being badly hurt or possibly even killed at some point
in the future.

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Jonathan
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sardines/