FruitBat ([info]al_fruitbat) wrote,
@ 2009-06-10 08:08:00
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Gah! My Strike-Fu is poor
Left the house before 6am today, hand-held GPS and bus route plan in hand. Two buses - ought to do it.
First fail - My first bus started running from 7am, not 6am. D'oh!
However, taking three different buses (406, 102, 143) I got to Archway and onto my needed bus, the 43.
I got to work 10 minutes earlier than usual, only to discover that the bloody Northern Line is running fine today.

D'OH!

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[info]secondhand_rick
2009-06-10 11:29 am UTC (link)
I feel guilty for having laughed at this. Proper lolled too.

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[info]denalyia
2009-06-10 12:33 pm UTC (link)
I know! I took one bus all the way in, so while it took twice as long, wasn't as bad as it could've been. But I could have taken a single bus just to Archway and gone from there. Ah well...

I think the few running lines are due to the fact there's more than one tube union. A friend's boyfriend belongs to a different union than the RMT and in her words, they are far more sensible about when/when not to strike. Hence, none of them are involved in this and are going into work. She asked for everyone to please be extra nice to any tube staff they see during this. :)

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[info]al_fruitbat
2009-06-10 12:53 pm UTC (link)
What makes it worse is now that the Northern Line is reporting 'Minor Delays' and their live departure boards for London Bridge show trains arriving in 18 and 23 minutes :-(

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[info]mrlloyd
2009-06-11 08:18 pm UTC (link)
I thought that faced with this problem anyone who possibly could worked from home?

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