I am livid. Absolutely livid. I’ve been diverting my recent online energies to trying to get to the bottom of the NIGHTMARE that was my journey home a week last Thursday (30th January 2003).
IT TOOK ME 9 HOURS TO GET HOME.
9 HOURS
Think about that for just one minute.
CLICK HERE TO VISUALISE MY STORY
I have emailed just about everybody who I think are representative of the collective responsibility of transport systems of London. I even emailed Annie Mole - the spiritual thought leader of the London Underground system - but apart from a couple of politically spun responses from Mayor Ken’s office - I have had little back from anybody. Alas - it seems nobody is interested.
Hey ho - perhaps most people in this country really are like British Airways cabin crew attendants: who don’t mollycoddle you - but, instead, speak down to you like a headteacher the moment you care to complain - or worse still - just simply ignore you when you’re in need. I can just picture the thought in their eyes: “well - the exercise probably did you a lot of good sir.”
Anyway - there were many things about my ordeal that night that I will never forget - but there is not enough space in this margin to write about it - but if there was one thing that kept me going on my 3 mile melee with a fierce killer blizzard - it was music that I had on my brain that night - it had to be the one that got me home with absolute gritless determination all mixed up with the feeling of rage. A heavy rock number with raw guitar, violent drum and climatic lyrical crescendo …
Posted by jag at February 08, 2003 01:14 PM“I’m on the nightrain
Ready to crash and burn
I never learn
I’m on the nightrain“
from a really motivational heavy-rock song by a visually unappealing eighties band called Gun N’ Roses.
Hi Jag,
I have bee following your story very closely and I must say that I really do sympathise with you.
When I take over the tube soon - I’ll make you an honorary London London Transport citizen - and you will have free access to the city’s transport system for the rest of your life!
By the way - could I ask you to host my blog for me? The people who run my office IT systems tell me that “the Internet is a jungle” and claim for security reasons that it is not a good idea to share my thoughts with the world.
LOL - Ken
ps - my preferred blog colour scheme is “Red”
Posted by: Ken Livingston on May 13, 2003 09:01 AMThanks Ken!
But I’m not sure that you’re the real Ken Livingston! I have asked the Mayor of London’s office to ask the “real” Ken to have a look at my “Transport Hell” webpage at http://www.jag.me.uk/transporthell so that he could learn first-hand about the debacle that was our transport system on the the night of 30th January 2003! I’m hoping he will be both entertained as well as annoyed! Hey - perhaps he will give me a free travelcard for life as you suggest! That would be great! If not, perhaps, wishful thinking!
Hey ho …
Best regards - Jag
Posted by: Jag on May 13, 2003 09:14 PMJag,
why do you hate Netscape so much? There’s more than one OS in the world, by the way, and IE isn’t available on most of them ;)
Posted by: Tim on June 16, 2003 01:56 PM