The Tube comes up trumps!

World travellers have voted London the best city for public transport, as well as of course saying how they believed it to be the most expensive. So at the end of the article we get the statement:

"It's proof that even when it comes to riding a bus or a subway, you get what you pay for."

Oh okay, so paying £35 a week for a zone 1-5 travelcard gets me a tube train that smells faintly of dying mice (not quite ripe, but on their way out) at least one seat covered in a substance I would be scared to guess at and the hottest,sweatiest,smelliest most horrific journeys during the summer.

Then of course we have the bus, those windows that do sod all unless you are sitting at the back,the school run making it unbearable and no where to sit (this also happens on the tube)

If I was getting what I paid for I would expect the following:

Someone to open the door and welcome me aboard (instead of getting barged out the way)

Guided to my seat (not fight for a seat)

Asked if the air conditioning is just the right side of cool (instead of having to strip just to feel a breeze)

Offered a wide selection of snacks and drinks (instead of peeling chewing gum off my arse)

Given the morning paper (not peel a 2nd hand copy of the metro off the floor)

Have a fast and efficient service all the way to my destination (constant stops anyone?Sitting in the tunnel for 15minutes?)

I also want leather seats, the choice of who sits next to me and somewhere to put my feet up. Of course that is asking too much, but you know...with the money TFL is taken off us it wouldn't be half bad to not have strikes threaten our journeys and having to wait half hour only for the bus to be full when it arrives. Gosh!