Blonde's Eye View: The disruption eruption
Angela Clarke gets angry and asks why, why, why?
Canary Wharf is relatively new compared to other parts of London, so why does so much of it keep having to be repaired?
If bits aren't being patched up, they're being extended.
An escalator that's closed here, a new office block being built there, a platform being extended everywhere.
When will the powers-that-be accept people have sex, produce babies, and those babies grow into more commuters? Just build bigger stations/trains/buildings to begin with.
It's not like it's a surprise the population is increasing - it's been doing it for the last 250,000 years.
My entire journey to work is disrupted.
In just one day last week the council were re-surfacing the road I walk along to the station, three escalators were closed for repairs in the underground, and the front entrance to my office was blocked by the gas board.
These little things made me an hour late.
August sees an explosion of transport related maintenance.
Town planners assume there will be fewer people around to annoy during this holiday favourite month.
Or they think it's funny to ruin what would otherwise be some of the nicest days of the year.
Who wants to sit outside eating an M&S sandwich with drilling all around? Or sunbathe in the park while the smell of freshly laid tarmac wafts over?
If you're lucky you'll get two days of August to enjoy the school holiday effect - a speedy and smooth journey to work, minus the school run masses.
Then the ground will be ripped out from underneath you as "improvements" start.
Disruptions are not limited to August.
The announcement the Jubilee line upgrade work closures are going to continue all year, and possibly into next, comes as no surprise.
Just for once I would like to enjoy a whole journey where everything works. And pigs wearing hard hats and fluorescent jackets might fly.
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