Let it snow...
Jan. 30th, 2019 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaThe joy of snow.
Leave a little later than I'd like. Miss the tram by a few seconds.
Decide I'll go back a couple of stops. Improve odds of getting a seat on the next tram. Next tram is 6 minutes away.
30 minutes later, next tram is 2 minutes away. But seems to be taking a few minutes to do 1 minute of travel. The one after is 6 minutes away. And the one after that is also 6 minutes away. Decide this one is going to be rammed. Walk back another stop.
En route, I see a tram heading to "Out of Service". After a while I surmise that perhaps there is a blockage upstream and they turned this tram around to start the route at the stop I just left. I run back to where I came from. It turns out I'm right. Fortunately it waits for me. And I get a seat.
Next stop, everyone tries to squeeze on the tram.
Stop after that, there's no room for anyone else.
Finally get to my destination. I have a lot of people to fight through. Some people have got on without waiting for everyone else to get off.
Turns out there was a broken down car on the track. This is the problem with the Manchester Airport Branch. It does quite a lot of street running. A good portion of Metrolink runs on the old railways branch lines so it's kept off the roads, but on this branch, if there's traffic, the trams are stopped. If there's a broken down car actually on the tracks, they don't even have the option of going around the blockage.
Seems the buses were worse. There was an epic queue at the bus stop near work. The empty car park suggests that the roads weren't any better.
Hopefully things will clear up for the trip home.
Leave a little later than I'd like. Miss the tram by a few seconds.
Decide I'll go back a couple of stops. Improve odds of getting a seat on the next tram. Next tram is 6 minutes away.
30 minutes later, next tram is 2 minutes away. But seems to be taking a few minutes to do 1 minute of travel. The one after is 6 minutes away. And the one after that is also 6 minutes away. Decide this one is going to be rammed. Walk back another stop.
En route, I see a tram heading to "Out of Service". After a while I surmise that perhaps there is a blockage upstream and they turned this tram around to start the route at the stop I just left. I run back to where I came from. It turns out I'm right. Fortunately it waits for me. And I get a seat.
Next stop, everyone tries to squeeze on the tram.
Stop after that, there's no room for anyone else.
Finally get to my destination. I have a lot of people to fight through. Some people have got on without waiting for everyone else to get off.
Turns out there was a broken down car on the track. This is the problem with the Manchester Airport Branch. It does quite a lot of street running. A good portion of Metrolink runs on the old railways branch lines so it's kept off the roads, but on this branch, if there's traffic, the trams are stopped. If there's a broken down car actually on the tracks, they don't even have the option of going around the blockage.
Seems the buses were worse. There was an epic queue at the bus stop near work. The empty car park suggests that the roads weren't any better.
Hopefully things will clear up for the trip home.
