Weather & Rail network = chaos

[BlackDragon]

Or perhaps it's against company policy/common sense for a driver to carry a large wad of cash around due to the prospect of mugging/robbery.
It's not hard to go to a shop and buy a small item to get change, or have a change jar at home which you use for buses.

To be fair, not everyone will carry enough change for a bus journey if they don't realise they are going to be getting a bus instead of a train for which they have a season pass for. Why shouldn't the bus driver provide change? The rail staff that walk around trains can do it, so I don't see why they can't.

For example the other day I had to get a train back after Badminton at about 8ish. For some reaosn there are no trains for at least an hour so I ended up having to wander for about 20mins to the closest bus stop with services, and only then for the bus driver to moan at me for the audacity of using a five pound note to pay for my ticket.

 

[Dave M]

I mean like drainage etc around the tracks....especially in low lying areas that are most likely to flood / areas that flood every year round.

Where are you going to drain low lying land to in a flood?

The only thing you could do would be build 20 foot embankments across hundreds of miles of low lying land for the trains to run on, it would cost too much, cause too much disruption, and would never get through planning.

Why does everybody think any disruption is the fault of poor planning or bad services - it's severe weather, it causes disruption, the fault lies with the people disrupted being unable to cope with it.