Mundane News

[carpiste]

Getting ready for the new project with clients. Also working out how to get the last one ready for sale...

You sell your clients!!!

😄

 

[mybike]

Good morning. Soon time for the morning bike ride commute, I meant commute; yes it's a hard life, see me suffer et c...

A number of clients are somewhat bewildered by my strange tree hugging habits. One lives in the same village as me and yesterday he asked "how many hours" it took to ride to work in a morning. He was somewhat floored when I said it took 35-40 minutes.

I think we sometimes have an exaggerated sense of distance when we are used to travel by car and train.

It used to be amusing when I worked in central London how, lacking an underground service for some reason, people would have no idea how to get to their office. You could actually walk as quickly as using the underground.

 

[biggs682]

Sun's out now I can turn the office light of

 

[mybike]

Morning, there's plenty of weather about today. An excess, I'd say.

It's not raining at the moment.

 

[PeteXXX]

It used to be amusing when I worked in central London how, lacking an underground service for some reason, people would have no idea how to get to their office. You could actually walk as quickly as using the underground.

In some stations you walk almost as far as if you actually walked to your destination

 

[Andy in Germany]

Perhaps you should read more of the chapter. It doesn't say what you think it does.

I'm not sure it says what the chap with the sandwich board thinks it does ether, especially as it was written for a specific audience in the Roman Empire.

 

[PeteXXX]

@biggs682 I'll let you know when the sun goes in. That'll give you 15 minutes warning to put your light on 👍

 

[Andy in Germany]

In some stations you walk almost as far as if you actually walked to your destination

It's like that in some parts of Tokyo: there's even two layers of underground with the upper being a plaza between street and tracks, so you can literally walk between stations.

On a weekday evening it has the advantage that people are generally walking to a destination so it's quicker than squeezing past crowds on the pavements above ground.

 

[mybike]

I'm not sure it says what the chap with the sandwich board thinks it does ether, especially as it was written for a specific audience in the Roman Empire.

Not just for them, else we wouldn't have it.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It used to be amusing when I worked in central London how, lacking an underground service for some reason, people would have no idea how to get to their office. You could actually walk as quickly as using the underground.

It was only through riding around that I began to figure out where the stations actually were at ground level. While the London underground map may be a style icon of sorts, it only gives an approximate indication of the geography, which of course leads people to follow the signs in the tunnel without really knowing where they would be on a street map.

 

[PeteXXX]

Is it Covent Garden tube station that has about 190 steps up (or down), beaten only by Hampstead with 320?

 

[cookiemonster]

It's like that in some parts of Tokyo: there's even two layers of underground with the upper being a plaza between street and tracks, so you can literally walk between stations.

On a weekday evening it has the advantage that people are generally walking to a destination so it's quicker than squeezing past crowds on the pavements above ground.

Shinjuku station. In two parts with a freeway in between them.

And two huge shopping malls as well.

Not a place to be near in the Tokyo rush hour.

 

[Oldhippy]

I loved the Japanese transport system. Barring rush hours utterly brilliant. You buy a train ticket and it means you are definitely getting on a train as advertised.

 

[biggs682]

Well that's another job done

 

[Illaveago]

Dull out there today. WFH so commute was opening the door to the conservatory. Winter boots still soaked from yesterday's torrential rain. I'd just got them dry from mountain biking a couple of weeks ago. Better pop the coffee on.

Do you put newspaper in them ?