From the category archives:

Transport

Taxi company

To whom it may concern, I would like to make a formal complaint about you company and overall service. As a taxi company may I just remind you that you are in fact the highest ranked mode of public transport in this area, mostly by myself. To begin with I would like a detailed and [...]

Bus Trip Blues

Dear Stagecoach, Having travelled on your buses for many years, and having seen a considerable decline in standards, I feel I must voice my concerns, hoping you will listen and take notice, as I am sure I am only one of many disgruntled passengers. I would be grateful if you could address the following issues: [...]

My Trip to School

Every day I have to walk round the park o’r through it to get to the bus stop and then I have to wait about half an hour for the bus to come. There are no seats in the bus stop and some kids come just as the bus comes because they live really close [...]

Dangerous Car

Dear Mister Yakimoto, I am writing directly to you as president of the corporation that designed and built my car to make sure this issue gets dealt with promptly. My Jason says I am lucky to be alive and I need to tell you about it so you can act now to prevent major loss [...]

Virgin Trains’ megolomania made it worse

Dear VT, I am writing to complain about the six hour diversion and overall poor service on Virgin Trains on Sunday 4 January. I was travelling on the 11.55 train, as the 12.15 train I had booked had been cancelled because of the plane crash. We were told a power line failure meant the train [...]

Pothole

Northamptonshire County Council Notice. The action that will be taken to deal with a pothole depends on various factors, including the width and depth of the pothole and the position of the footway or carriageway in the network hierarchy. If the pothole is considered dangerous it will be filled within 24 hours, however in some [...]

Channel Tunnel Complaint

To be honest the service I received on the days following the 19th December was some of the worst I have experienced in any country, including developing ones. So the fact that it was from Eurostar in the most developed part of Europe was a surprise to say the least. I was made aware of [...]

To all those who sniff

Dear Train fellows on the 9.04am from Claygate to Clapham Junction. Is it really neccessary to spend most of the journey coughing and sniffing come rain or shine. If anyone didn’t have a cold before they boarded that train they certainly would have by the end of their journey. You might think that winter colds [...]

Taxi!

The worst taxi ride ever. That’s how I can sum it up, in a way that people can understand. By the end of it, I was so stressed out I could barely muster up the strength to speak. I called 30 mins early, you know.. to be on the ‘safe side’ just in case. Because [...]

Traffic Lights on Roundabouts!

More and more these days I’m finding that where once there was free flowing traffic, there are now standing lanes of vehicles polluting the air and stretching back for a mile or so. Why are we dumbing down everything in this country? It’s not as if it’s a particularly difficult concept. You just have to [...]

Mobiles more dangerous than speed

I take a lot of pride about being a 65-year-old car driver without a blemish on my licence. That was until I was clocked speeding by a roadside camera after visiting a pal in hospital. When the speeding ticket plopped through my letter box I discovered I was caught driving at 36 miles per hour [...]

Car Parking

Dear Hull City Council, Parking Meters are brilliant. I love parking meters. I love how they take my money, and give me a little bit of paper in return. Why does it cost so much to park? Once you’ve bought some land, you’ve bought it. All I want to do is sit my car on [...]

Parking Ticket

Dear Sirs, Ref: ISxxxxxxxx Please find enclosed my credit card details for payment of the above referenced Penalty Charge Notice. How apt is your Department Title “Parking Finance”! I feel this is a hotly disputed penalty and reserve the right to appeal to a higher authority. Upon parking, I observed that the parking slot in [...]

Rage Against Extortionate Parking Penalties on Asda Car Park for Customers

This month I was issued a £90 Parking Penalty on Asda’s private Car Park at the Leyton branch in London whilst in store spending my hard earned cash. Unfortunately, being my nearest supermarket, I spend hundreds of pounds at this budget on a weekly basis. I agree that tickets should be issued to cars in [...]

Public Transport

We are all supposed to be a little greener these days, trying to reduce our carbon footprint, we recycle our paper, not so much as a scrap gets past the bin lid without being shipped off to the paper recycling bin, it’s the same for everyone, we have a planet to save after all! My [...]