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Date: 18 January 2007 21:00:29
My housemate has just got home from work. It normally takes him around three quarters of an hour or thereabouts. Tonight it took 5 hours - of which four-and-a-half were spent between the same two junctions of the motorway.
What is it about Britain that causes the whole country to grind to a halt when the weather does anything even slightly out of the ordinary? I know the kind of winds we've had today are extremely rare, and if a tree gets blown down into the road there's not a lot you can do about it, but come on - it seems every extremity of weather is not prepared for in the same way in the UK as it is in the rest of the world.
From many years of using the train, I know this all too well. Summer? Too hot, tracks have buckled, engines have overheated, cancellations. Autumn? Leaves on the track, track becomes slippery, trains have to go slower, delays. Winter? Snow (generally only a light covering possibly once in the year, but that seems to be enough to cause problems for days on end).
Funny how the trains in France - by all accounts faster, cheaper and more reliable than the British ones - never seem to have these problems... They never should have privatised the railways... Oh, sorry, turned into my dad at the end there. But you get the point.
OK. Rant over. Please disperse, people. Nothing to see here.