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Commute this week - walk to local station, train to London Bridge (slow as fuck), northern line tube (rammed and as hot as hell) and bus to N16 and then walk.
Surgery on a broken hand three weeks ago means I’m back at work but can’t ride til at least the end of the month. So far it’s taken me an hour and 45 minutes and is costing me about £20 per day.Commiserations. Hope it lasts less long than predicted. Would it be quicker to take the 149 from London Bridge to Stoke Newington High Street? Still a bit of a walk from there, but it's one change less.
How the hell do people do this every day?
They don't know how good cycling is.
More seriously, London's a public-transport-and-walking city. That's what's considered 'normal'. Cycling isn't. There's also a huge skill deficit in the population at large that means most would see cycling this distance as beyond them. Plus all the usual effects of 'modernism', e.g. the idea that you're a modern person if you use excessively heavy machinery for simple and mundane purposes, as, after all, we're all modern persons now and have left things like the 'humble bicycle' behind.
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Commute this week - walk to local station, train to London Bridge (slow as fuck), northern line tube (rammed and as hot as hell) and bus to N16 and then walk.
Surgery on a broken hand three weeks ago means I’m back at work but can’t ride til at least the end of the month. So far it’s taken me an hour and 45 minutes and is costing me about £20 per day. How the hell do people do this every day?