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[lethargic_man]

I've just discovered there's a forty-eight hour Tube strike starting. This severely pisses me off, because I had no idea there was one pending. If I had, I wouldn't have cycled to work the last two days. I'd intended to spend Friday cycling around the Northumbrian countryside; instead of which, I'm going to be so tired after having to cycle sixty miles in four days that I don't know where I'm going to get the energy to cycle home from on Thursday.

Grrr! :-(

[ETA: Though a glance at the TfL Journeyplanner suggests I could do the journey as fast by bus and train anyway as by Tube... assuming I can get on the train, what with the thousands of other commuters displaced off the Tube...]

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I found that sometimes having a break - an icecream, cup of tea, whatever - helped tremendously in getting my energy levels back up for cycling.

Sorry to hear about the lousy timing. I mean, *I* heard it on the news this morning thinking 'oh, I didn't know about it' but I thought that Londoners would have heard.

Our BBC: not so brilliant with the news, sometimes.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the lousy timing. I mean, *I* heard it on the news this morning thinking 'oh, I didn't know about it' but I thought that Londoners would have heard.

I would have, if I followed the local news, which I never do, or read the Metro, which I likewise never do. (All my fellow commuters wasting their time reading the same rubbish every day; it's prime reading time for me.) In any case, I wouldn't have had a chance since last Thursday, which is the last day I took the Tube.

I'm now at work only a few minutes later than if I'd taken the Tube. (Presumably—I've yet to determine the Tube time to my new workplace.) Cost me an arm and a leg, though, particularly as I'd run out of credit on my Oyster card and there weren't machines available to buy more.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

My journey planner says I have to take the tube instead of the bus 143 to Archway for my appointment. It would be more expensive and just 35 minutes. Then I put in the journey plan bus route only. It supposed to take 1 hour or more to get with one bus directly to Archway. I emailed the customer service to ask about distraction. I have no answer yet. If they do a tube strike, too, that would a complete disaster. I won't get anywhere. I could not find out otherwise what's wrong with the bus route. Any idea? Is there a sort of bus strike, too that is going on for the next two weeks?

[iddewes]

Gosh, I thought everyone knew about the tube strike!
I've been lucky so far, my bus was just as normal this morning.