I hate the London Underground...

I saw some bloke get his head stuck in the closing doors once. He was pretty out of it. It was kinda funny, except we got delayed for like 20 minutes because for some reason they couldn't open the doors straight away, so there was this bloke, and like 8 people trying to stop the doors from crushign his neck. Also the emergency system was a bit ******, the driver was trying to talk to us to find out what was wrong but apparently the microphone in our carriage was stuffed.

No swearing
 
drizzy said:
Also the emergency system was a bit AHEMHEMHEMHEM, the driver was trying to talk to us to find out what was wrong but appar
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Not been on the London Underground but in the underground part of Merseyrail I love the whooshing of air as the train comes down the tunnel.
 
I have to use the underground every day. It sucks ass as hard as it did 20 years ago. Only non-genuine Londoners love the undergound and live in holes like Brixton, Stockwell, any of west London or A10 route just because it's on the tube lines because they think it's cool when it is in fact a ****hole.
 
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Underground is crap if you are a non-Londoner, or new to the city, but after living her a while, you learn to make it work for you.

Avoid rush-hour (not hard), know your contingency routes, and avoid touristy areas where-ever possible. :)
 
I use them every day during rush hour. Hey it's not great being pushed up against the tube door but you get use to it.

I've become a robot on the tube, sometimes I forget how I even got to work :)
 
I've been to London twice in the past 4 months and found the tube to be the most reliable form of transport I've used. Always on time and plenty of them!

Even when I was there at Wembley, yes it was packed, but what do you expect? But it was on time, and got me where I needed to go quickly!

Can't think of another cheap method of getting around London.
 
The Tube is great. Fast, Reliable (Except Circle & District, grr!) and easily navigatable if you pull your head out of your rear.

My only gripe is that it's overpriced like all the public transport in London.

As mentioned a few posts back, noobs on the tube make life annoying for everyone.
People who stand on the left hand side of the escalator for instance.
Or the people who stand in the middle of the platform so foot traffic has to navigate around them, rather than against the wall or near the yellow line.
Thinking about it, it sounds like a BBC documentry. "Noobs On The Tube" presented by Andrew Marr.
 
Quite like it, once you get used to the crowdedness and dirtiness, it becomes a quick and efficient mode of travel across London.
 
I use the tube at least 3 days a week from Waterloo to Oxford Circus, and I hate using it...

+ Commuters are so rude, barging past you when ever you're 'in their way'
+ Tourists wonder around in amazement, blocking escalators and standing in front of ticket barriers
+ Parents allow their discussing children to scream at full tilt in a carriage full of tired sweaty people.

Their is always some **** who will put his elbow in your face whilst your all packed up against the doors in the name of holding on to the roof rail.

Its at just that point when your day is over and your ready to go home, you get a seat and some old dear or parent with children comes over and death stairs you into giving up your seats when they just left the house and you have been running around a busy shop floor for hours and need to sit down for the 10 minute journey.

This is why I will never like the tube, its not about fair, or thoughtful, every ****** is out their for them selfs.

I try really hard on the way to work to allow others to pass by easily, I give up my seat, and I stand on the left, but its really annoying when your in a rush or need a seat that the whole of the tube is still in selfish mode.

People in London severely need to think about each other not just them selves.


/RANT (sorry, I had to get that one out my system!)
 
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People in London severely need to think about each other not just them selves.


/RANT (sorry, I had to get that one out my system!)
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I think that this encompasses my feelings in the original post. Using the tube means dealing with people from London. I travel all over the country and and people are generally nice. However, in London they are ignorant and It's the one place where I can't just drive to my meetings because I cannot park anywhere.

So I have deal with Londoners...and the tube.
 
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Don't use it then. It remains, despite what a lot of people say and think, as one of the most reliable modes of transport around.
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Spend some time in Berlin using the u-Bahn/S-Bahn and then come back and say that!

The rail (and bus and tram) system there makes the London Underground look like the Victorian, over crowded, late running, under invested mess that it is. Sure even given its faults it is a better way of getting round London that the bus!
 
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Spend some time in Berlin using the u-Bahn/S-Bahn and then come back and say that!

The rail (and bus and tram) system there makes the London Underground look like the Victorian, over crowded, late running, under invested mess that it is. Sure even given its faults it is a better way of getting round London that the bus!
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I lived in Munich for 5 years, using the u-bahn and s-bahn system there every day and I've used them in many other German cities. You can't compare them at all to the London underground because they don't run anywhere near as many trains or routes. Many a time I would be sat in minus 10 degrees at Garching-Hoeckbrueck station waiting ages for a u-bahn because they just aren't that frequent. Yes the transport system in German cities is great but the London underground improved massively while I was out of the country.

In Germany you have to set your clock and get to the station at the right time to catch your train, on the underground you can get to the station anytime knowing that your train will be along shortly.

You're comparing apples with oranges, can you imagine a London Hauptbahnhof where every single tube line goes through and every single train in the country to London terminates at? That should give you an idea of the differences in sizes, it would be impossible.
 
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I use the tube every day. Guaranteed I will use two lines every day and stop at 46 stops each and every day.

On top of this I will use the tube to visit different companies in London so often this number increases greatly.

I feel that the London Underground is the worst for a number of reasons:

* Horrific (literally horrific) prices. Are we still paying off the construction costs or something??? Can you say cash cow???
* No air conditioning
* No late service - is it too much to ask for a late service on Thurs / Fri / Sat?
* Always busy, hard to get a seat at 4pm sometimes - partly due to limited train sizes - a train can only be the size of the smallest platform on the line. You may think that at Rush hour this is to be expected but I've been on the underground in New York and Hong Kong at rush hour and have had plenty of space.
* Poor train and platform spekers - I can't ever understand what they're saying and most of the time they have a heavy accent of some kind.

I've visited and tried the tube in many different countires and cities - New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Rome, Paris and many others and they've all been much better. Well, only ROme because it's so cheap.
 
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