My girlfriend has just been offered a job, after looking for about 4 months.
It's a manager's position at a restaurant, so she'll be doing afternoons to late night (e.g. midnight-1am).
That's fantastic, except for one thing, she doesn't drive, which means she's stuck having to take public transport. This in itself isn't a huge problem, as it's a single change train journey, taking ~45mins-1hr.
The problem is, there is no public transport after midnight, none at all. The last train is at 23.35. This basically means I have to wake up our 6 month old baby, and drive out to pick her up from work at 1am, get home, put the baby back to sleep, get to bed at probably 3am, then get up for work myself at 6am, the alternative is for her to get a taxi at £30 each way.
I could understand it if we lived out in the middle of nowhere, but we don't, we live in Birmingham. The second biggest city in the country!! Whenever I've been to other big cities in Europe, there's always been decent public transport around the clock, so why can't we do it here?
Thankfully we're planning on moving closer to the area (in a month, so apologies if I fall asleep on the drive to work and kill any of you in the meantime), but it just made me realise what a joke the government's attempts to get people out of their cars really are.
/rant
It's a manager's position at a restaurant, so she'll be doing afternoons to late night (e.g. midnight-1am).
That's fantastic, except for one thing, she doesn't drive, which means she's stuck having to take public transport. This in itself isn't a huge problem, as it's a single change train journey, taking ~45mins-1hr.
The problem is, there is no public transport after midnight, none at all. The last train is at 23.35. This basically means I have to wake up our 6 month old baby, and drive out to pick her up from work at 1am, get home, put the baby back to sleep, get to bed at probably 3am, then get up for work myself at 6am, the alternative is for her to get a taxi at £30 each way.
I could understand it if we lived out in the middle of nowhere, but we don't, we live in Birmingham. The second biggest city in the country!! Whenever I've been to other big cities in Europe, there's always been decent public transport around the clock, so why can't we do it here?
Thankfully we're planning on moving closer to the area (in a month, so apologies if I fall asleep on the drive to work and kill any of you in the meantime), but it just made me realise what a joke the government's attempts to get people out of their cars really are.
/rant
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