LU is getting worse!
 

I travel up to London every sunday and i find delays on the central
line,jubilee line full of enginering works and the district the same.
Traveling from Upminster brige to baker street is close coming up to 1
hour 45 mins compared to a while ago to 1 hour and ten due to the fact
of delays and longer routes.
I find my self taking buses as its quicker yes buses being quicker!
I would like to see some improvement soon to the underground as its
getting rediculous
Regards
James
Lyons

LU is getting worse!
 

"EorJames" wrote in message
oups.com...
I travel up to London every sunday and i find delays on the central
line,jubilee line full of enginering works and the district the same.
Traveling from Upminster brige to baker street is close coming up to 1
hour 45 mins compared to a while ago to 1 hour and ten due to the fact
of delays and longer routes.
I find my self taking buses as its quicker yes buses being quicker!
I would like to see some improvement soon to the underground as its
getting rediculous

Have you taken the trouble to find out what the cause of the extended time
is?

LU is getting worse!
 

On 1 Mar 2005, EorJames wrote:

I travel up to London every sunday and i find delays on the central
line,jubilee line full of enginering works and the district the same.
Traveling from Upminster brige to baker street is close coming up to 1
hour 45 mins compared to a while ago to 1 hour and ten due to the fact
of delays and longer routes.

LTS/H&C?

I find my self taking buses as its quicker yes buses being quicker! I
would like to see some improvement soon to the underground as its
getting rediculous

It's like Vietnam: it's going to get worse before it gets better.

tom

--
22% Essential Components, 22% Repetitive Patterns, 56% Pauses

LU is getting worse!
 

Traveling from Upminster brige to baker street is close coming up to 1
hour 45 mins compared to a while ago to 1 hour and ten due to the fact
of delays and longer routes.
I find my self taking buses as its quicker yes buses being quicker!

During the current weekend closures, you could try getting the c2c
service from Upminster station to Fenchurch Street, then walk to
Aldgate East and get the "enchanced" Hammersmith & City from there to
Baker Street.

Having said that, the engineering closures do seem to be getting
worse. Half the underground seems to be closed at weekends these days.
There are some particularly badly-coordinated ones as well: for a
couple of Sundays last month (13th and 20th), much of NW London was
cut off from the centre, due to 3 separate sets of engineering works
resulting in the Metropolitan, Jubilee, Bakerloo, Chiltern, and
Silverlink Metro all simultaneously having no service to central
London.

LU is getting worse!
 

EorJames wrote:
I travel up to London every sunday and i find delays on the central
line,jubilee line full of enginering works and the district the
same. Traveling from Upminster brige to baker street is close
coming up to 1 hour 45 mins compared to a while ago to 1 hour and
ten due to the fact of delays and longer routes.
I find my self taking buses as its quicker yes buses being quicker!
I would like to see some improvement soon to the underground as its
getting rediculous

If you are a volunteer railway worker (Epping-Ongar according to another
post of yours), I would expect you to realise that the engineering works
are in order to provide the improvement you would like to see. How else
do you expect tracks to be replaced?

Re your journey Upminster Bridge to Baker Street: why the longer route?
District UB to Whitechapel, then H&C Whitechapel to Baker Street should
take about an hour next weekend when the usual District/Circle weekend
closure is in place, according to the TfL Journey Planner.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

LU is getting worse!
 

EorJames wrote:
I travel up to London every sunday and i find delays on the central
line,jubilee line full of enginering works and the district the same.
Traveling from Upminster brige to baker street is close coming up to 1
hour 45 mins compared to a while ago to 1 hour and ten due to the fact
of delays and longer routes.
I find my self taking buses as its quicker yes buses being quicker!
I would like to see some improvement soon to the underground as its
getting rediculous

So you want improvements, but you don't want any engineering works to
take place?

LU is getting worse!
 

Yes i know i would love the tube to be better.
But why do they have to do all of the work at once.
But im trying a diffrent route this weekend see if that will be quicker
James

LU is getting worse!
 

On 1 Mar 2005 15:49:44 -0800, EorJames wrote:

Yes i know i would love the tube to be better.
But why do they have to do all of the work at once.

The sooner it's done, the sooner it will be done.

But im trying a diffrent route this weekend see if that will be quicker

Is it a route that will take you to a place where you can buy some
punctuation?

LU is getting worse!
 

Why would taking the trouble to find out the reason for the delay make
it better or excuse LUL for it.

Kevin

LU is getting worse!
 

James Farrar wrote:
On 1 Mar 2005 15:49:44 -0800, EorJames
wrote:

Yes i know i would love the tube to be better.
But why do they have to do all of the work at once.

The sooner it's done, the sooner it will be done.

But im trying a diffrent route this weekend see if that will be
quicker

Is it a route that will take you to a place where you can buy some
punctuation?

Don't laugh, they're going to start on the District from this month.
For the last two weekends Waterloo has been virtually closed, and I
believe this is going to be repeated again this weekend. There was also
vast distruption to those travelling from the Buckinhamshire area. I
wonder if the rail operators realise that people would actually like to
have the convienince of being able to travel to London at weekends? On
top of that the cost of an all zones travelcard has risen to £6.

Neill

LU is getting worse!
 

LU is getting worse!
 

Neillw001 wrote:

Don't laugh, they're going to start on the District from this month.
For the last two weekends Waterloo has been virtually closed, and I
believe this is going to be repeated again this weekend. There was also
vast distruption to those travelling from the Buckinhamshire area. I
wonder if the rail operators realise that people would actually like to
have the convienince of being able to travel to London at weekends? On
top of that the cost of an all zones travelcard has risen to £6.
Would you rather have it happen in weekdays???????

--
Lars Elmvang
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Min mailadresse finder du ved kun at skrive det overeksponerede
domænenavn én gang

LU is getting worse!
 

On 1 Mar 2005, EorJames wrote:

Yes i know i would love the tube to be better. But why do they have to
do all of the work at once.

They aren't. There's plenty more to be done once the present batch is out
of the way!

tom

--
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. -- Alan Turing

LU is getting worse!
 

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:05:02 +0000, Tom Anderson wrote:
On 1 Mar 2005, EorJames wrote:

I find my self taking buses

It's like Vietnam

No it isn't. They drive on the other side of the road there.

--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p11218102.html
(Class 460 Gatwick Express emu 06 at South Croydon on 15 Jan 2005)

LU is getting worse!
 

On 1 Mar 2005 15:49:44 -0800, "EorJames"
wrote:

Yes i know i would love the tube to be better.
But why do they have to do all of the work at once.

the work is not all being done at once. However there is a huge amount
of work to be done as there is a lot of old assets to replace or
upgrade.

Things are temporarily worse because there are urgent works on the
Northern Line to deal with a long standing problem. The rebuilding of
Wembley Park knocks out the Met and Jubilee Lines and is running to a
very tight programme so as to meet various expectations connected with
the new Wembley Stadium. In addition you have upgrade work for the 7th
car project for the Jubilee Line. Oh and we have the long term closure
for Heathrow T5. That's just for the JNP lines.

There are further huge projects in the pipeline like the Victoria Line
upgrade and I would not be surprised to see regular closures of parts of
that line. However it won't happen while there are also the big closures
for track works on the District and Circle as that could potentially
leave Victoria without a tube service which I think is a step too far
for people to contemplate.

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

LU is getting worse!
 

LU is getting worse!
 

Ohh none of that please.
I have and its delays and engineering works.
Well at the end of the day as long as it makes a more quicker and
cumfey ride
im willing to settle.
Just gets really bad when your down there.
Im sure it will get better and i hope it brings a better lu.
James