of these in London

[Spike]

Wake up, Khan, stop the agenda-loaded hounding drivers and concentrate on things providing facilities like this:

[Safe]

[Ottavio Caruso]

Am 14/02/2024 um 16:07 schrieb Spike:

Even those dirty and lazy Italians have better metros:

[Tim Streater]

So we should rip out the functioning Underground system that we already have, and replace it wih another. Yep, that makes perfect sense.

[Spike]

Have you ever commuted on LU?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not since around 1974 and it was shit then.

More diseases in the Tube than Porton Down. And parasites. People crawling with lice and fleas, miserable morons crawling from a shit flat to a shit job...no thanks.

[Tim Streater]

Nearly 60 years ago, yes. My route was Southfields <-> Earls Court <-> South Ken.

[Spike]

So you’ll be familiar with how grubby and run-down most of it is.

[Smolley]

Daily in 1956, from Hounslow East to Hammersmith. Annual season ticket was £4.17/6.

[Ottavio Caruso]

His Alzeihmer's memory is stuck at 1954.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Fucking hell. I wasn't even born 60 years ago and this dinosaur Tim is teaching me life lessons!

[Ottavio Caruso]

Fucking hell. You're as good as dead.

[Smolley]

Probably soon, but I grew up in the best period, plenty of good jobs, easy to buy a house, no overcrowding at hospitals. Car insurance £36 for Ford Zodiak mk2. We had 5 local cinemas, Trolley Buses and Greenline routes.

[Smolley]

You clearly need it.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Yet your generation f***ed it up.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Do you do skype lessons from your care home? Do you know what day it is today?

[Smolley]

You are demonstrating one of the classic signs of low self esteem and low self worth. You should be able to get free treatment for it on the NHS.

[Fredxx]

It all went downhill after 1973.

[Tim Streater]

Yes, today may be your lucky day in tat you finally understand your fundamental need to wise up.

Oh, and the expression is "doddering old fossil", not "dinosaur" IF you don't mind.

[Tim Streater]

Certainly a lot of it could do with a lick of paint and better track maintenance so the trains don't sound like the they're running over broken rails.

Still, back then you were lucky to have two carriages which were no-smoking, whereas today ...

And some of the rolling stock dated back to the 1920s/1930s. And while there's still ancient stock, quite a lot is modern and even air-conditioned, AIUI.

It would be even better with driverless trains.

[Brian]

While the Paris system isn’t especially attractive, it is cheap, clean, and efficient.

Public transport in Luxembourg - even parking at train stations- is free, except First Class. Spotlessly clean, efficient, …..