So this is how I read it.

They need to abolish the key worker limited timetable and return to a full subsidised service allowing buses and trains to travel empty if need be. Otherwise people are being sent to their deaths.

 

According to something I read over the weekend, they can't run a full timetable on the tube because so many drivers are ill or self-isolating (the figure I read was 40%, but it could be complete rubbish).

 

Possibly look into capacity on the railways especially. Run more carriages on services. Sumat has to give.

 

It’s really quite simple

People can go back to work starting today, something they could already do. Workplaces must continue to adhere to rules to create a safe environment, which are not yet published, due to be published tomorrow. On Wednesday people can return to work again after the rules are published.

Don’t know why people are confused.

 

I know for you personally its a problem at the moment, but long-term you might want to consider changing where you live or where you work (or get a car). You can't rely on public transport at various times of the year to travel so far.

 

I'm looking for new jobs all the time to be honest. Even considering a drop in pay and doing more menial labour.

 

mate works on planing side for TfL they are still running at 33% absence.

 

At the factory where my dad works they are asking people if they want to work up to 80 hours a week as they are so busy so I’m sure they’d live to have you . Two people have already died from Covid 19 there but in a different department to him. My mam went to live with a friend 8 weeks ago as she has to shield (they have to too so they’re shielding together) and he drops food off to them outside.

 

Tbh we want to get back to a situation where you can rely on public transport. Less snarl ups for road users and better for the environment. I hate driving!

 

Make sure you get some face masks Helen

 

Idiots. Idiots going to work. Nurses and hospital porters and cleaners. People in jobs whose employers did not furlough them. People who would lose their jobs if they didn't go to work. People who would lose their house if they didn't go to work. People who couldn't feed their kids if they didn't go to work. Idiots the lot of them.

 

Whats the point of going to work to pay your bills, feed your family if you end up dead getting on rammed trains like this. Could they not get a bicycle/Walk/Taxi? Life’s all about making choices. I for one, wouldn’t go on a packed train like that. I appreciate everyone has different circumstances but that has to be the last resort.
Failing that, at least get a f*****g mask n gloves!!

 

Wow. Skivers charter.

 

Do you think they enjoy it? Working for minimum wage all day cleaning, taking home half as much money as someone furloughed, sat at home eating M&S prawn cocktail crisps and putting on another box set. Do you think they enjoy getting on a packed tube, knowing that they're probably going to contract a virus that most people who earn far more money than them are hiding from, while they're pushed up against a stranger as they travel 20 miles to work, because that's the closest grotty little flat they could get to their employment after the gentrification of a city that has excluded everyone who actually has to work there. A taxi would cost more than their wage for the day. A walk would require them to set off for work before they left the previous evening. These are the people still running our country, still keeping things going, still paying the taxes paid to the furloughed. But yeah, they're idiots, and they're not even wearing masks, that until today our government did not recommend.

 

If you like what you do Steve don't change your job because the grass is not all ways greener on the other side. I know your pissed off with transport to and from work as the government's transport policies during this pandemic stink's. anyone would think Graylin was still at the helm and this new guy Chapps think that's his name as he's been known to change it, looks to be no better.

 

They were all cleaners?? How the hell do you know that?? I get what you’re saying about people not having a choice but please don’t tell me they are all cleaners. Also, if you do have to do it, common sense tells you a mask n gloves would be a good idea, or do they have to wait for the govt to tell them everything?

 

I'm not saying they were all cleaners for goodness sake. I'm sure at least one was. I used one as an example.

The government have said, consistently, that they do not believe face masks help. It has nothing to do with common sense. It is about following guidelines from people who are supposed to pass down relevant information.

 

Cheers Colliers. I know I've moaned about transport and said i wish I could be furloughed but that is frustration. I've done my job 10 years and don't know much else to be honest. Thought of starting a fresh does scare me and when this is over my job will probably be one of safest.

 

Didn't they announce yesterday that they were going to make face masks compulsory on public transport or did I imagine that - they are in many countries that are relaxing their lockdowns (and likely more successfully that ours).

 

Not compulsory and not masks. They advise 'face-coverings' but to leave the masks to those who need them in their jobs.