Rain rain

So the tube has been okay mostly for the last week or so which you forget completely when you have to travel 4 stops in the opposite direction to actually get on a tube in the morning. That’s not get on and get a seat that’s physically get on. I might not have time for the gym now 🙁

Plan to test mobile phones on the Underground

Transport for London (TfL) had appealed for telecommunications companies to come forward for a trial on the Waterloo & City line but have drawn a blank.

The aim of the test – originally scheduled for 2008 – was to find how out technically and commercially viable a scheme would be.

All I can say is thanks god – it’s one of the few places where you get peace and quiet from people on mobiles. I commute using the trains and so sadly don’t get the luxury of not being in contact on my way to and from the office.

Still we know it’s possible as mobile operator O2 already offers mobile phone access on the Glasgow Underground. So really it is inevitable that eventually there will be a London trial on the tube.

Severe Weather Warning

So London has closed down due to snow. It’s the most snow we have had in 18 years apparently and more to come today. All very exciting but means I can’t make it into the office and neither can most other people unless they can walk. Another ten centimetres forecast for today which means most people even if they could get in might not make it back out again!

The Airports are now closing too which means it is bad, trains are suspended in the south west and the south east, all except one tube line is part suspended – the Victoria line is the only one which is completely underground so the weather rarely affects it.

So snowball fight anyone? Oh and don’t eat yellow snow…