Comments on: Travel misery for Greenwich train users

By: Snow brings travel chaos for Greenwich commuters | Greenwich.co.uk

Snow brings travel chaos for Greenwich commuters | Greenwich.co.uk — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:22:17 +0000

[...] came in for heavy criticism last time there was snow. In January of this year, local MP Nick Raynsford accused southeastern of not having learned the lessons from snow-related disruption in February 2009. He returned to his [...]

By: Snow falls, so Southeastern cuts SE London off « 853

Snow falls, so Southeastern cuts SE London off « 853 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:58:26 +0000

[...] Raynsford, whose Labour party privatised Southeastern in April 2006, says the company is “the weak link” in the transport [...]

By: Alan Palmer

Alan Palmer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:18:16 +0000

My journey to Charing Cross wasn’t too bad this morning. The train arrived about the normal time and was less full than normal; I even got a seat! I had to change at London Bridge, though. The journey back was worse. I waited ages for a bus to Charing Cross, gave up and cought one to Waterloo instead. Of course I then had to get to London Bridge. I managed to cram myself onto a jam-packed train, and then waited for 10 minutes on a dangerously crowded London Bridge platform until the half-hourly Greenwich line train arrived. I arrived home about a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, although I’d left work an hour earlier than the regular leaving time.

I suppose Southeastern are damned if the do and damned if they don’t in this sort of situation. If they take no action overnight they are accused of being unprepared of the snow is bad, and if they wait until the morning they risk being accused of going off half-cocked.

By: Indigo

Indigo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:14:19 +0000

Hmmn, even the Beeb is tweeting there to thank viewers for their videos, some of which will appear on the 6.pm London news.

Hope Ben Marsh’s server stands up to the hammering

By: Indigo

Indigo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:10:39 +0000

Dipped in and out of the awesome phenomenon that is uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk all day today. Seem to be only a handful of people tweeting from SE3, SE10, SE7, and one of them reports that passengers are being turned off a bus at Shooter's Hill (too steep?) Even newspapers are twittering there ("come and look at readers' photos of the snow" type thing), and Heathrow has twittered there to tell people where to find information about the travel situation.

By: H

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:34:57 +0000

And more of the same planned tomorrow! Why bother.