Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a 2.80
fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15 minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

B2003

On Jan 6, 10:14*am, wrote:
Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a 2.80
fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15 minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

Well at least you'll be able to claim your £3.10 back under the
Customer Charter.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/refunds/tuberefund/

wrote in message

Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and the
roads were unusable? I wonder how the Tube staff got to work? You
should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

d wrote:
Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a 2.80
fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15 minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a surprise.

No, that's just expensive. A rip-off would be something like a return
journey Local--KX, a 13 min turnaround and return KX-Local. Rip-off,
because I got charged £4 on (return) entry at KX and again at Local
station. Then spend 20min on hold + 10m in conversation at 5p/min to
get a refund sent to the wrong station gates (hence I'll have to get it
re-setup somehow). I'm sure there used to be a "call-back" option,
but maybe that didn't produce enough revenue.

And where can I find out about the time-out or whatever at KX that
deliberately and unfairly overcharged me (twice!) for a completely
unremarkable journey. where I touched in/out just fine? Nowhere that
I can see.

#Paul

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d wrote:
Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

No, that's just expensive. A rip-off would be something like a return
journey Local--KX, a 13 min turnaround and return KX-Local. Rip-off,
because I got charged £4 on (return) entry at KX and again at Local
station. Then spend 20min on hold + 10m in conversation at 5p/min to
get a refund sent to the wrong station gates (hence I'll have to get
it re-setup somehow). I'm sure there used to be a "call-back" option,
but maybe that didn't produce enough revenue.

And where can I find out about the time-out or whatever at KX that
deliberately and unfairly overcharged me (twice!) for a completely
unremarkable journey. where I touched in/out just fine? Nowhere that
I can see.

That's one of the less obvious downsides of OSI.

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 02:58:46 -0800 (PST)
martin wrote:
On Jan 6, 10:14=A0am, wrote:
Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a 2.80
fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15 minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a surpri=
se.

Pathetic bloody system.

Well at least you'll be able to claim your =A33.10 back under the
Customer Charter.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/refunds/tuberefund/

I always do - did it as soon as I got in. Notice how the refund forms have
pretty much disappeared from obvious locations in the stations and no mention
is made of refunds anywhere. And once you've claimed you have to wait at
least a month it seems. No doubt they're "regulating the refunds service"
(said in nasal voice).

B2003

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:04:30 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
wrote in message

Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and the
roads were unusable? I wonder how the Tube staff got to work? You
should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

Yes, no doubt getting up at 4am in a blizzard isn't much fun. But then thats
the nature of the career they chose. As a passenger all I'm concerned about
is why the service is still ****. And more to the point why does a signal
failure matter on an ATO line anyway? Either the ATO is working or it isn't.
If it isn't why can't they just drive the trains manually?

Or is signal failure a euphamism for total **** up?

B2003

In article , d
says...
Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a 2.80
fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15 minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

B2003



Broken rail around Stratford allegedly. not much anyone can do quickly
to repair.

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:32:21 -0000
Jim Brittin [wake up to reply] wrote:
Broken rail around Stratford allegedly. not much anyone can do quickly
to repair.

If they checked their track properly they might have spotted it before it
broke.

B2003

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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:04:30 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
wrote in message

Had to get the tube to work today for obvious reasons. Nice to see a
2.80 fare has gone up to 3.10. And for that extra 30p I get a 15
minute delay
on the central line due to some signal failure or other. Oh what a
surprise.

Pathetic bloody system.

The 'obvious reasons' presumably being that the Tube was working and
the roads were unusable? I wonder how the Tube staff got to work?
You should, at least, be pleased that they succeeded.

Yes, no doubt getting up at 4am in a blizzard isn't much fun. But
then thats the nature of the career they chose. As a passenger all
I'm concerned about is why the service is still ****.

The point I was making was that you found the roads undrivable, so why
would it be any different for Tube staff. You're lucky they could even
get in to work, in order to get you to work.

Not transport related, but I was also pleased that my newspaper was
delivered as normal, and so was my post (in fact, earlier than usual).