themodelcommuter

OK, so maybe it was a bad idea to give a bus company (National Express) a train franchise (or two as they have)*. I agreed to go up and look after the parents house this weekend. No issues, small jaunt up to Norfolk that I do most weekends. Today I had a quick look at train times to see how long I could spend round my friends house before I had to leave. I’ll admit I was expecting engineering works and a slightly longer journey, but what I wasn’t expecting was for 3 hours of the journey to involve buses or waiting around for busses (or in one rare case a train). Not useful and I am not, at the last minute, trying to get out of heading up there as I really don’t want to spend my entire Sunday sat on public transport.

*For the benifit of those people who’ve been trolling on some of the other commuting blogs I read and pointing out small things like its Network Rail, not NXEA digging the track up… yes, I know, but it’s much more fun to blame a bus company for wanting to run more busses .

~ by The Model Commuter on October 10, 2008.