AmandaJR
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Agreed. Plus of course the idiots who use it every time - I really don't care if you can't make it because you're taking your cat to the vet!
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Agreed. Plus of course the idiots who use it every time - I really don't care if you can't make it because you're taking your cat to the vet!
chrisd
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I think the practical point is that there is so much of it out there now, and the symptoms are , in most cases, similar to just a heavy cold, and there's very little Government rules to follow, that the doctors are just assuming that anyone with the cold like symptoms are carrying Covid, also given that hardly anyone is testing now. I think the assumption in September that it will actually be a cold is possibly herd immunity kicking in to some degree
PJ87
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Do you follow the news? Lol it's been well published that from today the met is running a reduced service due to a fault that's been found with the s8 stock .. s7 stock unaffected but all s8 stock have been grounded until the fault is fixed
There is the saying as old as time
Check BEFORE you travel ?
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/article...et-line-trains-on-monday-due-to-faults-53641/
Amersham to Baker Street and Chesham to Baker Street
Every 30 minutes in both directions.
Uxbridge to Aldgate and Watford to Baker Street
Every 15 minutes in both directions.
Internally, TfL expects the issue is likely to affect services through to May, and is likely to have only affected trains that were recently serviced at the wheel lathe at Neasden depot
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Orikoru
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Is reduced service a good excuse for getting a simple information board wrong then??
Orikoru
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Probably explains why the numbers are 'going up' again then.
How daft.
chrisd
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Probably explains why the numbers are 'going up' again then.
The numbers are going up because anyone can do what they want to do. There's no need to wear masks, stay at home etc etc
PJ87
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What did the information board say? Was it the electronic ones or the hand written ones?
Orikoru
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Hand-written??? No the normal one above the platform. It says 'Metropolitan Line - 2 mins' like normal. Two minutes later when that train arrives it's 'Out of Service'! So I waited for it for no reason at all, should have just got on the first one and I wouldn't have wasted 12 minutes of my life.
PJ87
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So not the service status board then but the platform displays with next train? So much can go wrong with them they aren't full proof. (Blame years of underinvestment)
However there are so many apps now (tfl go) has status updates, next train times (press the station get next train times)
Considering you moan at people without online banking on their phones I think you should be moaned at for not using travel apps ?
Orikoru
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Is this a joke? The platform display is literally there to tell you when and what the next train is for God's sake. Do you get commission for defending TFL incompetence every time somebody moans about them?
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PJ87
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Is this a joke? The platform display is literally there to tell you when and what the next train is for God's sake. Do you get commission for defending TFL incompetence every time somebody moans about them?
I wish. To be fair it was correct the next train was there ... It just wasn't in passenger service ?.. we have so many problems with our vids we resort to turning them off at times of service disruption
It's the downside of the upgrades unfortunately, you are traveling on a line that's running 2 signalling systems side by side and when things go wrong the vids are a very basic bit of tech and can't keep up with changes as quickly
When all is running well they are a useful tool
However like everything they should come with a warning (only an indication)
Just like our screens at work that tell me where the trains are im not allowed to make safety critical decisions from the information on the overhead 40 inch screens I have to make it from the ones that are smaller and have the information backed up by several systems.
Ours is one of the most advanced modern rooms, the met is trying to catch up but obviously covid has hindered the 4lm upgrade.
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Foxholer
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It probably was for the Metropolitan line though!
So not 'wrong', just inadequate!
Orikoru
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At this particular station Metropolitan is the only line anyway so redundant in that sense.It probably was for the Metropolitan line though!
PJ87
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Least you know now lol should be another month apparently, whoever set up that wheel lathe is gonna be in a whole heap of trouble
SteveW86
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I hope nobody has messed with your desk when you do make it in
Orikoru
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Not today, but last week someone stole my bloody drawer pedestal. Not even been returned, I just don't have drawers now.
SteveW86
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Due to go and see “The Gruffalo” this morning with the wife and child in Southampton, walking out the house at 9:45 and get an email to say it’s been cancelled as the cast have Covid.
Luckily, Sophia has taken it like a champ and we are about to bake some cakes instead.
Luckily, Sophia has taken it like a champ and we are about to bake some cakes instead.
Rooter
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Amazing how resilient kids are getting with Covid, not sure of your ones age, but still!!
We were sat in the Theatre for the xmas Panto, 5 minutes past curtains up a stage manager comes on to cancel it. There were a few very unhappy kids at that one!!
