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Average commuter burns more than 320 calories getting to and from work
Blender Fox:To put it in perspective, a medium fries from McDonalds is 330 calories, so heading to and from work will burn this off. This DOESN’T however, mean you can slack off the trip to gym....
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20 questions every Londoner asks themselves on the morning commute
Originally posted on Metro: Only 17 more stops… (Picture: Getty) 253 working days in 2014 means 253 soulless morning commutes. There’s nothing we can do to make it better (other than giving you...
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Why I don’t use Public Transport to travel to work
People tell me I should use public transport to save on money, so I decided to check cost differences. To use buses only, would take me 2 hours on a good day, and on a bad day, possibly 3 hours to get...
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Stockwell Tube passenger dies after being hit by train as he ‘bends down to...
British Transport Police says John Burgess died three days after suffering serious head injuries in horrific accident at Stockwell Underground station After now using public transport a lot more since...
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Victoria Station
Did somebody forget to turn the shower off? :P Filed under: News Tagged: News, Public Transport, Station, Victoria
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Commuter Frustration #1 – People who don’t move down inside the cars
It’s rush hour, and a busy carriage, and there’s space inside the train, but people don’t always want to move down inside the car because it’s harder to get off.Filed under: Public Transport Tagged:...
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Commuter Frustration #2 – Bikes
People who bring full sized bikes onto trains. Tolerable on rail services, as some train stations are quite far out of towns, but on underground trains where every inch of space is a premium, and...
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Commuter Frustration #2 – Spitting
This seems to be a norm these days, but it is still unhygenic and disgusting. I’d love to push the spitter’s face into their own spit and order them to lick up every drop of it…. But I’d probably be...
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Commuter Frustration #2 – Bikes
People who bring full sized bikes onto trains. Tolerable on rail services, as some train stations are quite far out of towns, but on underground trains where every inch of space is a premium, and...
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Taking the Same Train Each Day…
When you take the same train each day, you notice things…. The person with the crazy hair The person who reeks of BO or has a flatulence problem… The person who always never has time to do her make-up...
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Underground
Ah, the joys of travelling on the London Underground Filed under: Public Transport Tagged: London Underground, Public Transport, Thoughts
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London’s Ghost Stations: Mapped | Londonist
A really interesting map of all of London’s abandoned and partly-abandoned stations. Some of which I knew about (Mill Hill East for example), others, like Highbury + Islington, which I use daily to...
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TFL’s French WiFi
So, Transport for London appears to be routing WiFi traffic out to *France* on some underground stations. I was passing through Marble Arch the other day and Swarm was picking me up as about 8K from...
View ArticlePost-Christmas Day holidays
Well, it’s the day after Boxing Day. The day where the majority of people who haven’t taken the interim days off on holiday, go back to work. There was definitely a run-down feeling on the train ride...
View ArticleThe Genius of the London Tube Map
The London Tube map is iconic and TED has a talk about it.
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Travelcards
In the old days, an off-peak, Zones 1-6 Travelcard would cost you £3.10 Don’t believe me? Here’s one from 1991 The equivalent ticket today would cost you £12.70, or £12.50 on Oyster…. Yes, this is a...
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"Amended" Timetable
So “amended” means having a two hour gap in between these two trains… Evidently "amended timetable" means "2 hours to next service" according to @GNRailUK ? pic.twitter.com/GwOGMXjOkn— Blender Fox...
View ArticleNew Year
Most people are back to the office for the first time today, and yep, the trains were packed…. :-(
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