The Commuters Misery

[Dave the Smeghead]

Due to the sub zero temperatures I have had to change my commute.
On Monday whilst riding to work my eyes (more than any other part of me) got really cold, which also meant I couldn't see well at all, and then came the pain.... my eyes hurt and it was pretty excruciating.
So I reluctantly decided to take the train and tube to get to work during this sub zero period.
3 days in and already I have a sore throat and croaky voice but I can't get the abject misery etched onto the faces of EVERY SINGLE PERSON on both train and tube.
Is everyone, everywhere so damn miserable when travelling to work?

 

[Levo-Lon]

People seem happier off peak..

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Well Dave - are you having fun on the train and tube?

 

[Brandane]

Is everyone, everywhere so damn miserable when travelling to work?

No. I work in different locations, but it usually involves about 30 minutes door to door, in the warmth and comfort of a reasonably priced car, listening to the radio or my own choice of CD if I prefer. Normally there's not a lot of traffic either. I particularly enjoy the homeward commute. Let me guess; you live in London?

 

[ianrauk]

When people are packed together like sardines on a stinky, overly hot metal tube that is usually running late, day after day after day after day after day after day after day morning and evening. Then no wonder people are all moody in downfaced.

Every now and then I have to get then train to work and it's a great reminder how much better cycle commuting is. Even in crappy, freezing cold or wet weather.

 

[Levo-Lon]

ad a strike into the above equation

http://www.lbc.co.uk/how-much-does-a-tube-driver-make-in-a-year-111522

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Well Dave - are you having fun on the train and tube?

NO! If I have to use it much more I will go completely

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

No. I work in different locations, but it usually involves about 30 minutes door to door, in the warmth and comfort of a reasonably priced car, listening to the radio or my own choice of CD if I prefer. Normally there's not a lot of traffic either. I particularly enjoy the homeward commute. Let me guess; you live in London?

No, I just have to commute into it.
I live outside of the M25

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

When people are packed together like sardines on a stinky, overly hot metal tube that is usually running late, day after day after day after day after day after day after day morning and evening. Then no wonder people are all moody in downfaced.

Every now and then I have to get then train to work and it's a great reminder how much better cycle commuting is. Even in crappy, freezing cold or wet weather.

I am so with you on this. If I can just sort out my eye thing or it warms up a bit I will be straight back on the bike

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

ad a strike into the above equation

http://www.lbc.co.uk/how-much-does-a-tube-driver-make-in-a-year-111522

Didn't notice the last few - a few more cars on the route but no great issues for my cycling

 

[tyred]

All depends on where you live I guess. Congestion was terrible for me going to work this morning

 

[ianrauk]

I am so with you on this. If I can just sort out my eye thing or it warms up a bit I will be straight back on the bike

Are you wearing cycling glasses? That might help.

 

[Brandane]

All depends on where you live I guess. Congestion was terrible for me going to work this morning

That's outrageous; how do you cope?
The last time I commuted by bike (Largs/Greenock via the Brisbane Glen), this was the level of traffic I had to deal with:

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Is everyone, everywhere so damn miserable when travelling to work?

Not in Stockholm no. Nor in Copenhagen. Though the residents of both cities would probably have full-on nervous breakdowns, the Stockholmer within 10 minutes cracking first, if they had to endure the passenger densities on the London Underground. They moan about how busy the metro, trains, trams and busses get at this time of year. Especially in cph when 80% of cyclists take to public transport at the first hint of snow/ice. But compared to London they don't know what busy looks like.

"Does everyone run everywhere every time in this city?" asked an incredulous Stockholmer colleague after his first visit to Lahndahn with me last Autumn.

Fair play to the Swedes though. When public transport goes Pete Tong they'll form a queue, 1.5m between each person please, to complain to the first public official they see. And BOY do they know how to complain. Sheet they do not take.

 

[Levo-Lon]

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