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Probably the wrong forum (should be in life) but I don't care - I'm too incensed:
So I get into Kings Cross this morning. I'm waiting for the tube on the Victoria Line to Green Park and there's a train at the platform waiting. There's no room to get on, so I carry on waiting...and waiting. After nearly ten minutes, I (and about 10,000 other people) realise something is very amiss - there are no announcements to explain why it's just standing there. Just when I decide to forget it and take the Piccadilly Line to Green Park, there's an announcement:
"Can everyone please evacuate Kings Cross IMMEDIATELY, please."
A collective groan emits from all the commuters including furious rage from some, me included. So I decide to evacuate (not that I've any choice in the matter) and go and walk to Euston and catch the tube there. I get onto the street and I'm met with a sight of utter pandemonium and chaos - commuters milling about EVERYWHERE looking confused and angry...in the stinking, squalid rain! Hundreds of them running about like mindless lemmings.
Silently fuming, I traipse to Euston and I'm just getting into the station when the tannoy beeps overhead:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Kings Cross station is now open after being closed due to overcrowding."
I snarl with rage and throw myself on the train in fury amidst startled, bemused stares from other passengers who quickly change the expression on their face to a blank look after they've witnessed my anger. My face must have been a picture - the looks on their faces were cowed instantly after seeing how irate I was.
Get into work half an hour late and find out Marylebone station was closed, so people went to Kings Cross, which caused Kings Cross to close BECAUSE OF BLOODY OVERCROWDING.
STUPID DAMN TUBE!
So now I'm in a bad mood at work and it's going to continue for the rest of the day.
So I get into Kings Cross this morning. I'm waiting for the tube on the Victoria Line to Green Park and there's a train at the platform waiting. There's no room to get on, so I carry on waiting...and waiting. After nearly ten minutes, I (and about 10,000 other people) realise something is very amiss - there are no announcements to explain why it's just standing there. Just when I decide to forget it and take the Piccadilly Line to Green Park, there's an announcement:
"Can everyone please evacuate Kings Cross IMMEDIATELY, please."
A collective groan emits from all the commuters including furious rage from some, me included. So I decide to evacuate (not that I've any choice in the matter) and go and walk to Euston and catch the tube there. I get onto the street and I'm met with a sight of utter pandemonium and chaos - commuters milling about EVERYWHERE looking confused and angry...in the stinking, squalid rain! Hundreds of them running about like mindless lemmings.
Silently fuming, I traipse to Euston and I'm just getting into the station when the tannoy beeps overhead:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Kings Cross station is now open after being closed due to overcrowding."
I snarl with rage and throw myself on the train in fury amidst startled, bemused stares from other passengers who quickly change the expression on their face to a blank look after they've witnessed my anger. My face must have been a picture - the looks on their faces were cowed instantly after seeing how irate I was.
Get into work half an hour late and find out Marylebone station was closed, so people went to Kings Cross, which caused Kings Cross to close BECAUSE OF BLOODY OVERCROWDING.
STUPID DAMN TUBE!
So now I'm in a bad mood at work and it's going to continue for the rest of the day.
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Probably the wrong forum (should be in life) but I don't care - I'm too incensed:
So I get into Kings Cross this morning. I'm waiting for the tube on the Victoria Line to Green Park and there's a train at the platform waiting. There's no room to get on, so I carry on waiting...and waiting. After nearly ten minutes, I (and about 10,000 other people) realise something is very amiss - there are no announcements to explain why it's just standing there. Just when I decide to forget it and take the Piccadilly Line to Green Park, there's an announcement:
"Can everyone please evacuate Kings Cross IMMEDIATELY, please."
A collective groan emits from all the commuters including furious rage from some, me included. So I decide to evacuate (not that I've any choice in the matter) and go and walk to Euston and catch the tube there. I get onto the street and I'm met with a sight of utter pandemonium and chaos - commuters milling about EVERYWHERE looking confused and angry...in the stinking, squalid rain! Hundreds of them running about like mindless lemmings.
Silently fuming, I traipse to Euston and I'm just getting into the station when the tannoy beeps overhead:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Kings Cross station is now open after being closed due to overcrowding."
I snarl with rage and throw myself on the train in fury amidst startled, bemused stares from other passengers who quickly change the expression on their face to a blank look after they've witnessed my anger. My face must have been a picture - the looks on their faces were cowed instantly after seeing how irate I was.
Get into work half an hour late and find out Marylebone station was closed, so people went to Kings Cross, which caused Kings Cross to close BECAUSE OF BLOODY OVERCROWDING.
STUPID DAMN TUBE!
So now I'm in a bad mood at work and it's going to continue for the rest of the day.
So I get into Kings Cross this morning. I'm waiting for the tube on the Victoria Line to Green Park and there's a train at the platform waiting. There's no room to get on, so I carry on waiting...and waiting. After nearly ten minutes, I (and about 10,000 other people) realise something is very amiss - there are no announcements to explain why it's just standing there. Just when I decide to forget it and take the Piccadilly Line to Green Park, there's an announcement:
"Can everyone please evacuate Kings Cross IMMEDIATELY, please."
A collective groan emits from all the commuters including furious rage from some, me included. So I decide to evacuate (not that I've any choice in the matter) and go and walk to Euston and catch the tube there. I get onto the street and I'm met with a sight of utter pandemonium and chaos - commuters milling about EVERYWHERE looking confused and angry...in the stinking, squalid rain! Hundreds of them running about like mindless lemmings.
Silently fuming, I traipse to Euston and I'm just getting into the station when the tannoy beeps overhead:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Kings Cross station is now open after being closed due to overcrowding."
I snarl with rage and throw myself on the train in fury amidst startled, bemused stares from other passengers who quickly change the expression on their face to a blank look after they've witnessed my anger. My face must have been a picture - the looks on their faces were cowed instantly after seeing how irate I was.
Get into work half an hour late and find out Marylebone station was closed, so people went to Kings Cross, which caused Kings Cross to close BECAUSE OF BLOODY OVERCROWDING.
STUPID DAMN TUBE!
So now I'm in a bad mood at work and it's going to continue for the rest of the day.
oh dear sorry to hear that m8
It's not even as if they've evev improved the service. Now the central line is out and they're bringing the congestion charges in soon which'll force even more people onto an already overcrowded tube system.
It's all messed up.
It's all messed up.
As a regular Tube user, that is an all too familiar story. With the Central Line facing more changes (and possible closure in some areas for up to six months), as well as the stupid decision to proceed with congestion charging, its only going to get worse...
Unbeliever wrote:
> It's not even as if they've evev improved the service. Now the central
> line is out and they're bringing the congestion charges in soon
> which'll force even more people onto an already overcrowded tube
> system.
>
> It's all messed up.
the rail industry as gone down hill big time since it was privatised, blaim Margret Thacher for that.
> It's not even as if they've evev improved the service. Now the central
> line is out and they're bringing the congestion charges in soon
> which'll force even more people onto an already overcrowded tube
> system.
>
> It's all messed up.
the rail industry as gone down hill big time since it was privatised, blaim Margret Thacher for that.
If they wanted to, they could re-nationalise ut. However, "New Labour" has policies more akin to the Tories so that's not going to happen.
To an extent, in London that is what is occuring - however, Livingstone will have the liion-s share of the legislative power in conjunction with the current private firms - as Transport Secretary Alistair Darling made perfectly clear recently, the Tube is Ken's responsibility - the government are keeping out.
RM18 wrote:
> responsibility - the government are keeping out.
which means more chaos i would imagine
> responsibility - the government are keeping out.
which means more chaos i would imagine
why was the station closed?
coz the tube sucks
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