Archive | September, 2011

Driver John’s 1st Law of Public Transport

26 Sep

If the service before the one you are now waiting for had been as late running as the one you are waiting for is, you’d be on your way by now.

This is an old adage, coined 30 odd years ago when I used to travel by bus a lot. This blog entry was prompted when I had a trip by
train to London. Knowing that there were 3 trains at about 10 minute intervals at that time of the morning I headed for the station. The first train had just hove into view as I locked my car, but pulled out  bang on time as I walked up the steps to the platform. The next train was shown as 25 minutes late and that had pushed the one behind back as well. If the first one had been just 1 minute late I would have been on  it. Such is life.