Work and transport

I’ve been ill for the past couple of days. Maybe it was some kind of karma for me telling people that were ill to get off the train and not to pull the passenger alarm? But to my credit, I waited to get off the train and was leaning over the platform edge before I […]

Consideration

The beat spits like fire into your bones. It booms and it bases and you rock your head back and forth, sway a little from side to side and regret that you are not somewhere that you can really get down and jam. But where you are is on public transport. And whilst you are […]

Leg room

I take one of two buses to get home. When given a choice, I will wait for the double decker, but more often than not there is a 10 – 15 minute wait from one bus to the next. So I have to either wait in the cold, rain, sunshine and/or sleet or get on […]

Passenger alarms

When I was going to school and taking the various forms of transport that I insisted on taking so that I could join in on the pre school fun, there were never any announcements about delays. The train was delayed and it was always presumed to be TFL or the train company’s fault. Later it […]

Tube strike

I was lucky today. I was able to work from home instead of trying to get into the office. From what I heard on the news this seems to be the same of many other people; contingency plans were put into place. The last time I ended up leaving my house at a stupid hour and […]

Just wait

Yesterday as I waited to board a train to Shepherd Bush at rush hour, I saw a man push his way past throngs of people trying to get off the train, so he could get on and secure a seat. It made me think of the two (there are more) most annoying behaviours that people […]

First class

My qualm It’s just after 7pm in the evening. A train has been cancelled which makes the one I am running for the first off peak train. I don’t notice this at first because I have a travel card. I realise this afterwards when I cannot get on two carriages as they are filled with […]

Please mind the… backpack

Yes I will confess to being one of those people that my cousin finds intolerable. You know the ones that have a huge backpack which takes up the space of a person; The ones that refuse to take it off. Yep, I am afraid, actually scrap that, I am not ashamed to say that I […]

Public transport etiquette

I wouldn’t go so far to say that I love public transport. But I would compare it to my legs: necessary and vital. From the moment I turned eleven and needed to get to school on my own, I used the tube, train, bus and eventually tram regularly. I grew up and lived for the […]