… or another reason to hate Coldplay, as if one was needed.
Coldplay are playing a gig this evening. At Crystal Palace, on a Monday evening. Guess what the trains coming home from London Bridge were like today?
Posts Tagged ‘west norwood’
Lies, damn lies and train times
Posted on in The World.The Post, the free local paper that gets shoved through my letter box every week, contains an article about a rail users group who want the local train services to run with tube-like frequency. They seem to have overlooked the fact that most tube lines have very few branches and junctions whilst many different rail lines join together and use the same tracks in South London. The train operators showed admirable restraint when they said “it is difficult to say whether their demands are reasonable or unreasonable until we sit down and look at the timetable.”
Elsewhere in the article there was a survey of “almost 200 commuters” which found that:
- ninety-five per cent of them used the service four or five days a week
They’re commuters, of course they use the service four or five days a week!
- sixty-four per cent were dissatisfied with the service
- 98 per cent thought it was unreliable
In the spirit of Josh from The West Wing, taken literally that means that 34% think that the service is unreliable but are still satisfied with it.
Veritable
Posted on in The World.Funny word isn’t it. Veritable. A sort of emphatic true. But if I’d called this blog Veritable Things it wouldn’t have had the same ring to it.
Anyway, there’s a banner up in the high street advertising a “Veritable French Market” that’s coming to “West – Norwood” (sic) tomorrow. I suppose that distinguishes it from all the “sort of, but not really” french markets?
“Fatal Fireams Incident”
Posted on in The World.That’s how the police “appeal for witnesses” board describes the lastest killing in West Norwood; though that rather po-faced languaged is somewhat undermined by the large MURDER at the top of the board.
This is, I think, the fourth murder in West Norwood in the six years I’ve lived here.