I commute from Romford each weekday to work in the City, and will complain like everybody else when the trains are cancelled, or delayed or overcrowded. But the truth is that Romford is actually very well served by public transport.
We have the main line in to London Liverpool Street and out to East Anglia; we have the “push-pull” to Upminster, with connections onto the c2c line between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness and the District line into London; and we have numerous bus routes in and around the town, including connections to stations on the Central and District lines.
Yesterday high winds led to severe disruption of services, both on my usual route home out of Liverpool Street, and on my alternative route from Fenchurch Street via Upminster. I feared that the tube lines would be even more overcrowded than usual, and possibly suffering disruption of their own. And so I decided to return home by bus, catching the number 25 from the City to Ilford, and then the 128 from there to Romford. It may have taken a couple of hours, but at least I made it home at a reasonable time – unlike some of my colleagues (and, doubtless, thousands of others) who have to make do with a much more limited public transport service.
So, yes, it’s easy to complain about public transport, and to want it to be better, and to take what we have for granted; but actually, the wealth of services that we have in Romford is something to be grateful for.
We have the main line in to London Liverpool Street and out to East Anglia; we have the “push-pull” to Upminster, with connections onto the c2c line between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness and the District line into London; and we have numerous bus routes in and around the town, including connections to stations on the Central and District lines.
Yesterday high winds led to severe disruption of services, both on my usual route home out of Liverpool Street, and on my alternative route from Fenchurch Street via Upminster. I feared that the tube lines would be even more overcrowded than usual, and possibly suffering disruption of their own. And so I decided to return home by bus, catching the number 25 from the City to Ilford, and then the 128 from there to Romford. It may have taken a couple of hours, but at least I made it home at a reasonable time – unlike some of my colleagues (and, doubtless, thousands of others) who have to make do with a much more limited public transport service.
So, yes, it’s easy to complain about public transport, and to want it to be better, and to take what we have for granted; but actually, the wealth of services that we have in Romford is something to be grateful for.
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