All change

[slycat]

The subject of course is a play on words relating to both the fact that the train timetables changed today and what they say when a train reaches it's final destination.  Anyway, the train timetable changes were set to totally screw with my daily routeine, meaning that I would have over an hour added on to my time out of the house.  In retaliation, I've got an alternative.  It's one I wouldn't have thought of but it's such a great idea.  Basically, my next door neighbour works in the same town that I do and drives there every day.  Now, as real life is not a soap and no-one talks to their neighbours, I had only recently learned this from my Mum.

Couldn't have come at more a perfect time really as I am now able to have 20mins more to myself in the morning and get into work early (rather than dead on or late) every day.  Only problem with this is that my neighbour finishes work at 3.30pm meaning I have to find my own way home.  However, rather than wait until 6.36pm for the train home (getting me home around 7.10pm including the walk), I can get home at about 6.30pm with no walk by getting the bus.  Getting the bus means that I don't need to leave work until 6pm but that's not a huge problem as I'm still getting home more or less the same time I would had I got the train before the times changed.

I will of course have to get the train when my neighbour is off work but on the whole, this has been quite a good thing rather than the problems I would have expected from the changes.  My only real worry now is that as the bus I get is the last service, there is the chance it doesn't run for whatever reason.  And unlike the trains, you've no prior notice that the service has been cancelled.  Ah well, I guess I just hope this doesn't happen...

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Oh, dashed good show, what? ^_^

What is it with so many bus companies thinking that 6-7pm is positively the middle of the night, though? There was one route near me that ran until about 10pm during the week, which was fine - but on the weekends, when nobody would ever think of, say, going out, it closed at 6pm. Or 5pm on Sundays. Still, it was only about a half hour walk from the station, even if a bit of a dull route through very flat suburbia.

[slycat.livejournal.com]

The UK bus service does my head in. I much prefer the trains, considering they run until late in the evening and all stations have electronic displays (assuming they are working) to let you know if your train has been delayed or cancelled. However, I'm having to take the bus nout out of necessity

[yagfox.livejournal.com]

Get a bloody car! *heheh*

[slycat.livejournal.com]

All in good time. Gotta learn how to drive one first. Don't forget the debts i'm in at the moment...

[hrrunka]

The RDS traffic report flicked me on to Southern Counties Radio, and was late one side or the other. You can guess what the main topic of conversation on the station was. It even got a mentin in the traffic report itself...

[atpaw.livejournal.com]

Mm. Cityrail (our woeful excuse for a public transit system - I honestly cannot remember the last time that I arrived to visit Sydney furs at the advertised time, regardless of whether delays were advertised (trackwork) or not. :P) has made the tactful maneuver of rather than trying to make the trains run on time, they're getting rid of half the services, and making all the train timetables ten minutes late, so that it will seem> like the trains are running 'on time'. :P

Cityrail sucks balls!