Uncool London Needs To Improve
London is the world Capital of Cool, well I think it is. The biggest rival for London in the cool stakes has to be New York, which I haven’t been to yet. So if they Mayor of New York would like to give me a free Jolly so that I can personally appraise the Big Apple, I’m ready, willing and able to travel at any time.
As all regular readers of London Is Cool, will be aware I love life in London and really appreciate the opportunity to be living here. I personally feel that anybody with some life left in their body and soul cannot but fail to appreciate London. Sure it has many faults, but hell nobody is claiming this place is paradise. I lived in a so called paradise for 9 months and it isn’t as good as it is cracked up to be.
I have previously written about some of the negative sides of London life, which I focussed on in my article 5 Very Uncool Things About Life In London. I know there is a hell of lot more than 5 uncool things about life in The Big Smoke, but they were the things that personally irked me the most. I however have discovered another issue with this city that needs to be sorted out.
I was out and about in central London last night until around about 2am, when I decided to call it a day and head home to my Gaff in Kilburn. When I arrived at the tube station I was painfully reminded that London Underground was closed. Thankfully the night bus service in London is fairly good, well its better than nothing I should have said!
It got me to thinking if London wants to be taken seriously as a cutting edge city, the capital of cool, a place that never truly sleeps. Why the fuck does London Underground have to totally shut down in the early hours of the morning, especially at the weekend.
I know I’m asking for too much for the tubes to be up and running 24/7, as they have to shut them down at night to do so called planned maintenance. Why cant they at least operate a reduced service at the weekends, what about 1 tube an hour on most lines.
Mayor Boris is busy in New York bestowing the virtues of London to New Yorkers, which is a city that truly never sleeps. From what I can gather that includes the sub way over there, which runs 24/7. Hopefully it will give Boris the spark to consider something similar for London Underground at the weekends. But I doubt it, that twat is probably tucked up in his bed with Rupert his teddy bear by 9pm.
So much is being made about fact that the Olympics are coming to London in 2012 and that it is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the delights of this city and confirm its status as a world beater. Well Boris and his goons will have to stop just talking about it, because talk is cheap and counts for nothing. London must move forward and give the people what they want and need, which is tubes 24/7 at least at the weekends.
I know for a fact that if the London Underground management, staff and unions read this they will probably be heading to the doctors tomorrow for medication for stress. You can just imagine the Unions been given my proposal, the fuckers would be on strike in a flash.
One other uncool thing about London, that I will never tire of repeating concerns that buffoon of a Mayor Boris Johnson, there is something that I really hate about Eaton and Oxford educated twats like him. I’m starting to get the impression that the role of Mayor of London for Boris is all about him, his ego and profile, I don’t think he has a clue about real life and issues. Hopefully I’m wrong and he can go on and do his part in ensuring that London continues to stand out from the other great cities of the world, such as Paris, New York, Barcelona and Aberdeen!
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