The little page of TRANSPORT CHAOS  

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Transport Chaos as of 10.25: PANDEMONIUM(275)
Text version - Tube, DLR and Overground, - Today, CHASE-MOG - No service, KX-CAM - No service, LST-CAM - No service, PAD-RNAG - No service, PAD-BRSTL - No service, LOO-BGRAD - No service, RNAG-BGRAD - No service, LOO-GUIL - No service, FARN-SHOT - No service, FLIT-KTM - No service, MAN-EUS - No service, RAM-VIC - No service, RAM-CX - No service.

Current TRANSPORT CHAOS threat level: PANDEMONIUM(275)

  PANDEMONIUM No hotel rooms available, people sleeping in stations.
  HIGH High risk of chaos: outbreaks of Dunkirk spirit likely.
  ELEVATED Conversations may break out between strangers.
  GUARDED Moderate sighing, mobile phones in use.
  LOW Low risk of chaos.

Tube status: Tube Chaos Map
Rail status: CHASE-MOG, KX-CAM, LST-CAM, PAD-RNAG, PAD-BRSTL, LOO-BGRAD, RNAG-BGRAD, LOO-GUIL, FARN-SHOT, FLIT-KTM, MAN-EUS, RAM-VIC, RAM-CX.
Road status: A1, A4, A14, M4, M5, M6, M11, M25.

The little page of transport chaos looks at Transport for London's real time tube status to tell you which lines aren't working. It looks at National rail's live departure boards and monitors train journeys between London, Cambridge, Reading and Basingstoke, between London and Guildford, between Enfield Chase and Moorgate, between Flitwick and Kings Cross Thameslink, and between Farnham and Aldershot. It measures by how much the last two hours of arrivals have been delayed. It finally looks at the Highways Agency's Events Table to look for chaos on the A1, the A14, the M4, the M5, the M6, the M11 and the M25. It doesn't yet watch the trams or the DLR. It exists to let my friends know when they should retreat to the pub. A value of -MIA- for a train means that the train disappeared from the live departure boards before the scripts saw it arrive. (There's a semi-serious political point here. Most of the cost to the economy of terrorist attacks is in the form of transport chaos. Why not cut out the middle man and spend all that money on our infrastructure rather than a war?)

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BRSTL-Bristol
CAM-Cambridge
CHASE-Enfield Chase
EUS-London Euston
FARN-Farnham
FLIT-Flitwick
GUIL-Guildford
KX-London Kings Cross
KTM-Kings Cross Thameslink
LOO-London Waterloo
LST-London Liverpool Street
MAN-Manchester Piccadilly
MOG-Moorgate
PAD-London Paddington
RNAG-Reading (not a gerund)
SHOT-Aldershot
BGRAD-Basingrad
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James McKenzie, 2006