By Kirsty Gregory
London commuters should be well used to announcements of delays and cancelled services across the transport sector, but just how hard is it for Londoners to get around the city day-to-day?
Transport for London is the predominant travel company in the city of London, allowing commuters to make over 31 million journeys across the network each day, according to their website. With so many people using TFL services each day, the system is relied on heavily to travel for business and pleasure twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Despite the company providing hundreds of trains, buses, cabs and tubes each day, it seems that getting around the city each day is much harder than some would think.
TFL statistics for the period between 7th January and 3rd February 2018 show that customers lost 1.79 million hours commuting, which was higher than the previous period.
Holloway resident and events assistant, Georgi Ivanov, 24, said that he was not happy with his daily commute. “My train was actually delayed by 14 minutes and I had to change with the tube after which was another five minutes… it made me late for work,” he said.
A student using Holloway Road tube station, Ana Wing, 20, said: “The tube service is pretty good for what it is, but when it’s bad it’s really bad, and its service is quite consistent at being bad.”
When asked about general satisfaction of commute, the majority of those asked said that they were unhappy with their travel and that more should be done to tackle delays and cancellations across the network.
Freelance copywriter Jo Swan, 44, said she was frustrated with the “regular bad service” she experiences on her way to work.
The question stands as to what can be done to get Londoners to work on time each day.
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