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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
Posts: 19,178
OK - I'll tell you why I would not. On two occasions I needed to be with my PhD Supervisor (ex) to oversee a student's project o a Friday as it happened. I need to be on flights at LHR T5 at about 19.00. On both occasions because of Piccadilly Line problems with signalling or some such. I nearly missed conformance, On one occasion it was within a minute. Thank heaven one flight was at A15 or 16 so was the nearest that I needed to be. Boarding had started. As it so happened the person sitting next to me had cracked and left the same train as me at Osterley and got a cab for a King's Ransom. HI was working with the Bundespolizei and I had to go to Berlin on one occasion and Hamburg the other.
I'm afraid that I trust public transport in the UK about as far as I could throw one of the trains. Twice bitten, thrice shy.