[Travel] No trains brighton main line

[Cowfold Seagull]

Hopefully they sort trains and the roads by tomorrow!

Indeed, we need to get our priorities right, footie before work everytime.

 

[dazzer6666]

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[portlock seagull]

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Seriously?

 

[beorhthelm]

yes. transport in Sussex looks fubar, cut off from London. time for the revolution?

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Vote Tory, Get Tory.

Yes because it is all boris’s fault that it’s raining so hard

 

[casbom]

Seriously?

Yep!

https://twitter.com/SussexIncidents/status/1207950253606998016

Shows where the water is coming onto the road

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I wonder if the HS2 money could be better spent on bringing the current railway infrastructure out of the Victorian age and into the 21st century ? Of course it bloody well could !

Wasn’t the signals out at Croydon put down to the jolly travellers in the area cutting the cables for scrap?,

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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[dazzer6666]

Seriously?

Yep......source official Highways Agency......

https://twitter.com/HighwaysSEAST/status/1207949141046956032?s=20

 

[el punal]

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Oh dear! The West Upper bogs unable to cope again.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Wrong kind of water?

Five minute job

 

[portlock seagull]

Yep......source official Highways Agency......

https://twitter.com/HighwaysSEAST/status/1207949141046956032?s=20

Bloody hell!

 

[Questions]

Yes because it is all boris’s fault that it’s raining so hard

The M23 never seriously flooded under Tony Blair. Make of that what you will.

 

[Badger]

The one day of the entire year I wanted to get a train from Hassocks to London and this sh*t happens. Typical!

 

[Bold Seagull]

I wonder if the HS2 money could be better spent on bringing the current railway infrastructure out of the Victorian age and into the 21st century ? Of course it bloody well could !

If only the profit the railway franchises make that flies out of the country faster than any of our trains get to anyway could be funneled back into investment in infrastructure renewal.

We currently subsidise the railways approx. £5billion per year – up 200% since privatisation (that's just to the rail operators, not Network Rail or Rail infrastructure projects).

Fares 20% higher in real terms than in 1995.

It's not great is it. Are there any positives from the franchise system? Is there a better way where money could go into existing services and new services? Does profit drive excellence in service and investment?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

The one day of the entire year I wanted to get a train from Hassocks to London and this sh*t happens. Typical!

Get to Haywards Heath and you can.

 

[dazzer6666]

Get to Haywards Heath and you can.

How ? Everything cancelled London-bound at the moment. Would get to Gatwick and go from there.............

 

[Badger]

Get to Haywards Heath and you can.

I don't see how. The line is closed between Haywards Heath and Three Bridges.

It would take about 3 hours to drive to Three Bridges given the road closures.

 

[middletoenail]

Perks of living in a dictatorship I guess Not that you could criticise or complain. Not unless you wanted a holiday to a gulag, sorry, correctional facility!! (Be careful how you reply, you are being monitored...)

Haha, it's wonderful, you should try it sometime!