(Confession: despite hearing snow ploughs all last winter I had completely forgotten what the terrible whirring and rattling sound as of the sky falling actually meant when it woke me up this morning.)
These are the reasons for the pendeltåg being late: Winter: There's snow! OMG! THERE IS SNOW ON THE TRACKS, IT'S A GIANT STOOOOORM HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TRAIN SERVICE TO FUNCTION PROPERLY???? (this reply btw is used both when actually is a huge snow hurricane and when we have had 3 mm of gentle fluff) Variations: - It's the cold, the signal system freezes up! - The snow is melting, we're getting water everywhere - The snow isn't actually that bad on the tracks, but we can't get our people to work because there's snow on the roads (true story!)
Autumn: There are leaves on the tracks! THEY B SLIPPERY! Variations: The slipperly leaves we had last week has wrecked the wheels of the trains, thus they are still running late :(
Summer: - Vacation - this means every other train is cancelled in the time table for some lines but the reamining ones will STILL not run on time, dammit - The heat makes the tracks bend!
Spring: Spring... spring I don't think has a unique reason yet. Slush and late snow, sometimes but I actually think a coolish Mayday is the one day on the year that the trains are optimized for.
Hee! Just like on the western side of the border, that. Except that these days, at least around Oslo, the generic excuse is, "We haven't done maintenance on the trains/tracks for the last 3-4 decades! You cannot expect the trains to run on time under these conditions! :("
It's so goddamn embarrassing. And don't even get me started on the shock and surprise, every motherloving autumn, when the white stuff appears as if by magic. Never you mind that the weather forecast has gone on about it for days in advance. OMG SNOW! HOW CAN THIS BE?! WHAT DO WE DOOOOOO? D: It's embarrassing for the entire country, but more so up here in Trondheim, which prides itself on not being a part of wimpy South Norway. But did we get war-types in the headlines two days ago? You betcha. "SNØKAOS!" they said. And it was. I despair.
"We haven't done maintenance on the trains/tracks for the last 3-4 decades! You cannot expect the trains to run on time under these conditions! :(" s You too? I suspect this is the true excuse in Stockholm too, but they try not to speak loudly about it
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Date: 2010-10-22 04:51 pm (UTC)These are the reasons for the pendeltåg being late:
Winter: There's snow! OMG! THERE IS SNOW ON THE TRACKS, IT'S A GIANT STOOOOORM HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TRAIN SERVICE TO FUNCTION PROPERLY????
(this reply btw is used both when actually is a huge snow hurricane and when we have had 3 mm of gentle fluff)
Variations:
- It's the cold, the signal system freezes up!
- The snow is melting, we're getting water everywhere
- The snow isn't actually that bad on the tracks, but we can't get our people to work because there's snow on the roads (true story!)
Autumn: There are leaves on the tracks! THEY B SLIPPERY!
Variations:
The slipperly leaves we had last week has wrecked the wheels of the trains, thus they are still running late :(
Summer:
- Vacation - this means every other train is cancelled in the time table for some lines but the reamining ones will STILL not run on time, dammit
- The heat makes the tracks bend!
Spring:
Spring... spring I don't think has a unique reason yet. Slush and late snow, sometimes but I actually think a coolish Mayday is the one day on the year that the trains are optimized for.
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Date: 2010-10-22 05:57 pm (UTC)It's so goddamn embarrassing. And don't even get me started on the shock and surprise, every motherloving autumn, when the white stuff appears as if by magic. Never you mind that the weather forecast has gone on about it for days in advance. OMG SNOW! HOW CAN THIS BE?! WHAT DO WE DOOOOOO? D: It's embarrassing for the entire country, but more so up here in Trondheim, which prides itself on not being a part of wimpy South Norway. But did we get war-types in the headlines two days ago? You betcha. "SNØKAOS!" they said. And it was. I despair.
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Date: 2010-10-23 12:22 pm (UTC)s
You too? I suspect this is the true excuse in Stockholm too, but they try not to speak loudly about it
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Date: 2010-10-24 04:54 pm (UTC)Aaw, disfunctional public transport systems of the world unite.