Times: Traffic jams present Olympian challengeThe Times Britain February 21, 2005 Traffic jams present Olympian challenge By Andrew Barker and Lewis Smith Map: IN LONDON, completing a 12-mile journey in 42 minutes seems optimistic. Yet this is how...
Hysterical bollocks. Even before the Kengestion charge I've never had to spend all day in a traffic jam in London. Nor even as long as an hour.
It's typical Londoner mentality to get stressed out because their journey took 10 minutes longer than they were expecting then to start claiming they had to wait "all day". TBH I wonder what excuse the lazy arses now come up with for turning up to work two hours late because they were out so late getting pished that they missed the alarm clock or forgot to set it.
"Badger on the line at Baker Street" doesn't work so well.
BTW, manners, do Londoners have any? I just ask because after I have taken the trouble to arrange my journey so that I get in to London to start a meeting at a defined time I regard it as pee poor when the Londoners start rolling in one or two hours late with feeble excuses. FFS, if they walked they would get there on time if they woke up at a fairly reasonable time like 7.30 AM. Instead it seems it's considered normal to roll in looking like an unmade bed, reeking of the night before and blaming the motorist for their lateness.
Right of way 5161Hello, That's women for you! It's bad enough them trying to drive a car, but when it comes to anything complicated like approaching another car head-on or trying to get...
Funny how I can make it in time from Hampshire and they can't make it in time from bloody Islington to Waterloo.
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Right of way 5160and the car coming from the other direction would have to drive on the wrong side of the road (presumably on the wrong side of the white lines. the but to I hear what...
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
