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Got to start this week with a big hinge, JOY of a journey in this morning, it seems the 106 has been diverted away from it's normal diversion so now it doesn't go past Stoke Newington station or along our bit of Manor Road at all. But there have been no notices about this, so we were stood at the stop for half an hour waiting. Bus driver said that it had to be moved away from it's normal diverted route because of traffic light failure there, but it's pretty crap that they couldn't send someone along the normal route to put up some signs saying "don't wait here"...
Fine day for some stupid kids to be jumping in front of the bus down my the park waving banners saying NO 106... I understand there have been petitions to get the bus rediverted away from the school and that, but the firt time I see protesters was the one day the bus wasn't going near the school. Any excuse to get out of lessons for them I suppose... Then there was a signal failure at Chalk Farm, so all in all it was about a one and three quarter hour journey in. I'm getting right disillusioned with London right now, I could commute in from the seaside in that sort of time!
pauly :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
They want the bus *away* from the school? They haven't thought a bus *to* school might be useful?
I don't get people sometimes.
darryl :: 11 Nov :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
There would be room to get a bus down there if it wasn't for all the cars parked up, where mummy's dropping her little darlings off. Also it's all the damn three wheeled baby buggies clogging up the street.
On a more serious note, the junction between the road the school's on and Stoke Newington Church Street (where the arrow is I hope) is a tight 90 degree turn, it's not best suited to a bus, and there's often a hold up while the bus gets round it. So one thing guess the residents are worried about is the traffic being queued up there, and traffic fumes poisoning people etc.
It's the cars and the school run that ought to be stopped, not the bus. Only about another four months of bus diversions anyway! This morning I got the train in instead...
pauly :: 13 Nov :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
128,000, sounds not bad... there was a two bed flat with sea views for the same price, but it was sold by the time I saw it...
Tried to arrange a vewinig of this place, but apparently it was under offer before I even saw it on the website... it's being sold privately apparently, probably for less than the 130k then!
Today, popex admin, all day...
pauly :: 10 Nov :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
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