Met Suspension Wednesday 5 December 17:00 Onwards

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If you are stuck at Ricky for a long time, there is an alternative to the taxi. The hourly 336 bus stops outside Rickmansworth station and goes to High Wycombe via Chorleywood station, Chalfont & Latimer station and Amersham station. Have no idea what the fare is nowadays as I haven't had to use it for about 5 years!

At about 17:35, one met train I was on had an automatic announcement "There is a good service on all London Underground lines".

I was aware of the service suspension and thought "oh no there is not!!!" as well as being annoyed at yet another misleading automatic announcement!

There must have been a problem this (Thursday morning) as an S8 appeared to stall on the approach to Harrow down road (into plat 3) and was there a good 15 mins. Trains were blocking back to Neasden. Thankfully I sailed past on my Chiltern Turbo! ;D

I was told it was cable theft.

It certainly wasn't cable theft. The train got gapped going over points where a 5 mph TSR was imposed.

I should imagine that, as 'funk' is a Met line T/Op, he might have other sources of information.

Exactly what has that to do with the price of bread or anything else?

The source apparently passing misinformation ! Perhaps someone got it from the greatest source of such, wikipedia!

T/Op sources are generally limited to the direct variety, the line organisation being top of the list.

Actually I'd say about 90%, honesty would be far better! In today's PC world where no-one must be unduly alarmed the softly softly approach is designed to keep the sheep happy although it is generally frustrating to anyone with a brain and a thought process.

Of course these days everything seems to be an Act of God and nobody's fault and it's more than a job's worth to lose face by telling the truth. It's very political and badly so, no wonder ES and other media have the attitude they do when things go wrong. I can see both sides but I have always thought that information dissemination was weak no matter how good the technology to deliver it.

Of course the favourite defence to misinformation, bending the truth or simple dishonesty is the well worn "we don't want to cause panic". People need to toughen up, we live in a rough environment where people should not be treated as mushrooms.

I was caught up in the failure on 5 December. Although my wife tried to get to Rickmansworth by road to pick me up, Amersham was gridlocked and she ended up returning home. I ended up walking from Rickmansworth to Chalfont. Five miles in the dark was not entirely fun, especially the section between Chorleywood and Chalfont where the road is unlit, the pavement is overgrown and diverts briefly into some woods beside the road, and someone has helpfully erected a set of knee-high concrete bollards right in the middle of the pavement. That was a lovely walk home...