Why is our Country so crap???

ugly_queen_from_mars · #11 08-05-2003, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Neurotica80

So as soon as we get some nice weather in the UK everything comes to a standstill. It made me laugh yesterday watching the news, "heatwave causes chaos on the roads and trains", some countries have weather much hotter than this and for longer periods but they seem to get on with it alright. It took a man from my work 3 hours to get home yesterday because all the trains were delayed. We moan when its too cold and then when its too warm!! Its the same in winter when we get an inch of snow, the same happens, everything stops!!

Sorry for going on but I am embarrssed to be British sometimes!!

don't worry. here everything stops to work properly everytime we have a strong rain. but now that the weather is ****ed up and it rains very often during winter we have started to get used to it and the government does the things that they should have done years ago...

Mongoose · #12 08-05-2003, 10:26 PM

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So as soon as we get some nice weather in the UK everything comes to a standstill. It made me laugh yesterday watching the news, "heatwave causes chaos on the roads and trains", some countries have weather much hotter than this and for longer periods but they seem to get on with it alright. It took a man from my work 3 hours to get home yesterday because all the trains were delayed. We moan when its too cold and then when its too warm!! Its the same in winter when we get an inch of snow, the same happens, everything stops!!

its called safety

would you rather those trains went off the rails + killed many people?

Neurotica80 · #13 08-05-2003, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

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So as soon as we get some nice weather in the UK everything comes to a standstill. It made me laugh yesterday watching the news, "heatwave causes chaos on the roads and trains", some countries have weather much hotter than this and for longer periods but they seem to get on with it alright. It took a man from my work 3 hours to get home yesterday because all the trains were delayed. We moan when its too cold and then when its too warm!! Its the same in winter when we get an inch of snow, the same happens, everything stops!!

its called safety

would you rather those trains went off the rails + killed many people?

No of course not but how would we cope if we had this kind of weather from May to September, as many other countries do?? To me its just another excuse for our crap public transport system and then they wonder why no-one will use it!!

Mike · #14 08-05-2003, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Neurotica80

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

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So as soon as we get some nice weather in the UK everything comes to a standstill. It made me laugh yesterday watching the news, "heatwave causes chaos on the roads and trains", some countries have weather much hotter than this and for longer periods but they seem to get on with it alright. It took a man from my work 3 hours to get home yesterday because all the trains were delayed. We moan when its too cold and then when its too warm!! Its the same in winter when we get an inch of snow, the same happens, everything stops!!

its called safety

would you rather those trains went off the rails + killed many people?

No of course not but how would we cope if we had this kind of weather from May to September, as many other countries do?? To me its just another excuse for our crap public transport system and then they wonder why no-one will use it!!

Apparently they put the ballast in the wrong place on a number of tracks(the stuff that insulates them).

Tashjbj · #15 08-05-2003, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Neurotica80

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

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So as soon as we get some nice weather in the UK everything comes to a standstill. It made me laugh yesterday watching the news, "heatwave causes chaos on the roads and trains", some countries have weather much hotter than this and for longer periods but they seem to get on with it alright. It took a man from my work 3 hours to get home yesterday because all the trains were delayed. We moan when its too cold and then when its too warm!! Its the same in winter when we get an inch of snow, the same happens, everything stops!!

its called safety

would you rather those trains went off the rails + killed many people?

No of course not but how would we cope if we had this kind of weather from May to September, as many other countries do?? To me its just another excuse for our crap public transport system and then they wonder why no-one will use it!!

I think public transport is a problem in a lot of countries. The public transport isn't as good here as it used to be, but it still runs in all kinds of weather.. which is a plus!! It's the motorways which go into a frenzy. When it rains everyone loses their ability to drive faster than 50 kmh and when it snows it's even worse! 2 years ago when it snowed (it has snowed since, but this was quite heavy snow) there were 975 km of tailbacks!! Now that's just stupid!!

Tash

letitrock · #16 08-05-2003, 11:11 PM

virgin trains in particular are so uneffective. one out of five are actually on time in britain (well, england that is). ´

Why is our Country so crap???

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