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The next train on Platform 2 is in 58 hours | Libby Purves - Times Online
Government has become an attitude of impatient irritation at the way that mere citizens snarl up its administrative systems. It reminds me of the feeling I had (and suppressed) as a waitress, annoyed at having my nice clean tables clutteredgap-year sons (“hungover 18-year-olds”) were set to inputting confidential health records, with names, into a digital system, for the minimum wage. It may seem to make economic sense, but it is symptomatic of this universal, contagious lackway from the Transport Department’s insouciance about Christmas trains and the general decrepitude of transport systems? Not really. It’s the same sickness: the new British disease. The citizen is nagged about carbon emissions and thenour norms. Beside that it leads to terrible anger and frustration, and we tend to forget it easily and accept more craps from our government. H.Marph, LONDON, A small comment on transport problems over the christmas
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