Overcome with an element of smugness...

[Bugner]

as I gently rolled past the masses waiting for buses at Victoria Station this morning. It looked like carnage!!

"Sorry is there a tube strike, oh I didn't realise"

 

[Downward]

Busy down there is it ?
Are the londoners all marching along singing knees up mother brown and making a day of it ?

 

[Bugner]

Not quite. Although that's a good idea, maybe we should all be doing the Lambeth walk and eating Pie & Mash.

In fact I think I will go for Pie & Mash at lunchtime. Double/Double with plenty of licqour and vinegar and a mug of tea

 

[fossyant]

Come on all you smug cyclists, give us lot who are not in the big shmoke a laugh....more reports....

 

[Jake]

just getting up, leaving in 2hrs time. sure it will be fine by then

 

[Sittingduck]

Coming in this morning and I only saw 1 confirmed POB! Riding down the pavement he was and had the cheek to overtake me going through Vauxhall (he's plucked up the courage to get on the road by then). Will be on the lookout for stranded office bunnies slumming it on the buses when I cycle past this afternoon

 

[CotterPin]

Saw quite a few cyclists along the road, one of them (an attractive young lady) studying a map. Unfortunately some other bloke had offered his assistance. Mass of humanity walking through the City and over London Bridge. Funnily enough, User, I did take my hands off the bars at that point and leant back, thinking this is the way to travel.

Then into the office to hear everyone else's tales of woes (those that had made it in). A bit evil of me, I know, but it did make me glow with a degree of inner smugness!!!

 

[Arch]

I'd love to be in London today.

I'd spend the day riding no-handed through the city, wearing a pearly cap and eating bowl after bowl of jellied eels.

Thanks for that image!

 

[Plax]

London makes me laugh. The last time it snowed Mr Plax and I were due to go to London the day after. I had to literally drag my suitcase out of the village to get picked up my Mr Plax (couldn't get my car out as it was completely snowed in down my street, and the high street was just sludge and compressed snow so Mr Plax refused to drive into the village. Charming eh). We got to London expecting masses of snow after all the news about transport choas etc - there was nothing left! Just a few icey pavements.

Now there's a tube strike and people can't get into work?! We get buses once an hour here, and the train station is nearly 10 miles away!

 

[Downward]

London makes me laugh. The last time it snowed Mr Plax and I were due to go to London the day after. I had to literally drag my suitcase out of the village to get picked up my Mr Plax (couldn't get my car out as it was completely snowed in down my street, and the high street was just sludge and compressed snow so Mr Plax refused to drive into the village. Charming eh). We got to London expecting masses of snow after all the news about transport choas etc - there was nothing left! Just a few icey pavements.

Now there's a tube strike and people can't get into work?! We get buses once an hour here, and the train station is nearly 10 miles away!

What ever happened to the spirit shown during the blitz ?!
I am suprised they just didn't shut London for 2 days.

 

[Sittingduck]

In fairness we have X-million folks here trying to get to work in a few square miles. The system is overloaded as it is.

 

[CotterPin]

That's why so much effort (albeit, some of it arguably misguided) is being put into getting more cyclists on the road. There is just not the capacity for them all on the underground or the buses

 

[Arch]

What ever happened to the spirit shown during the blitz ?!

Exactly. And not only did people still get into work, they might come home and find their house demolished by a doodlebug*

*Historical note, I'm fairly sure doodlebugs came after the blitz, but doodlebug sounded better than bomb....

 

[Tynan]

I came in down Mile End Road as per and it was gridlock, the little space left by cars, buses and trucks was choked by scooters and pobs on full on MTBs

it was slow, hard work and dangerous barring the stretches with bus lane, even then a lot of odd cyclists to watch out for

 

[surfgurl]

Arch, your historical note was correct.