Hmmm … Just when you thought the Rail Replacement Bus situation couldn’t get any worse … ?
An extra layer of bad gets added.
As you’ll possibly know, I work in Chelmsford: and get there by train.
Apart from on bank holiday weekends: win there’s a rail replacement service, as various bits of line maintenance get gone. As has been done, this weekend.
Sunday was the usual mess: Brentwood to Shenfield by bus, Shenfield to Ingatestone by bus, Ingatestone to Chelmsford by bus.
With the usual delays.
Sunday wasn’t good: but I got to work, AND got home.
Monday? Yesterday morning? There was a blivet in the works.
It turns out that — so late on Sunday night that it was at 12·45, on Monday morning — a man was attacked outside Murphy’s Sports bar — five or so minutes from my front door — and is in a serious condition.
In Queens Hospital, in Romford.
Some of the gossip I heard? Said he’s in an induced coma.
If true, and if the poor sod doesn’t come out of that?
Someone could be be facing murder charges.
For me? The immediate result was simply the fact that the police cordon thrown up — to let forensics do their job — meant the the rail replacement buses got re-routed.
Not something I was happy about.
And — considering someone’s Twitter feed got quoted on the Gazette’s website — I have to ask …
Will @EssexPCC be increasing the amount of police doing late night patrols in Brentwood?— Paul Downie (@Cuddy2977) August 28, 2017
Could’ve prevented that happening. pic.twitter.com/bGrdrxYmVs
Will Essex Police send and extra car down Warley Hill, at closing time? At bank holidays?
That could be good …
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