{"id":2562,"date":"2007-12-10T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2007-12-10T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T17:47:47","slug":"series-on-commuting-continues-in-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/10\/series-on-commuting-continues-in-toronto-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.thestar.com\/images\/9d\/8e\/def54c354428a16e27173ac3acd7.jpeg\" height=\"254\" width=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week <em>The Star<\/em> is featuring a series on commuting. Yesterday&#8217;s was particularly interesting, looking at what was alternately termed &#8220;London&#8217;s underground commuting hell&#8221; and &#8220;London&#8217;s unforgiving underground.&#8221; It should provide some solace to those riders &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2007\/11\/23\/letter-from-queen-street-trouble-on-the-501-queen-streetcar.aspx\">crush loaded<\/a>&#8221; on to the Queen Streetcar &#8212; the transit grass isn&#8217;t always greener even in a celebrated transit city like London. Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/World\/article\/283890\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Darkness is the recurring theme of James Darley&#8217;s odyssey to and from his office in the British capital, a journey that begins and ends without daylight for much of the year in the tiny village of Radnage, Buckinghamshire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Darley, 59, a public relations executive, must time things precisely to prevent the 60-kilometre commute from eating even more deeply into his life. He&#8217;s out the door by 7 a.m. for the first leg, a winding drive through the glorious Chiltern Hills to the town of Princes Risborough, where he stashes the car a five-minute walk from the train station to avoid parking fees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most days the 7:19 regional rail service to London Marylebone departs on the dot, and a lumbering 50 minutes later he has another five-minute walk to the nearby Baker St. Tube station.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There, he descends into a particular hell that was invented in London: the subway in rush-hour. Darley endures the 20-minute sardine squeeze on the Jubilee Line for five stops beneath the heart of the city by erecting &#8220;a self-protective mental envelope. I refuse to allow it to bother me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfazed by luggage digging into his leg or &#8220;the exhalations of last night&#8217;s curry,&#8221; Darley emerges at London Bridge, where his final leg &#8212; a 12-minute walk &#8212; awaits. Most days, there is time to pick up a toasted sandwich at the corner shop before he steps into the offices of Chelgate Public Relations at the crack of 9 a.m.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other pieces in the series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saturday<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/World\/article\/283771\">Washington <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Today<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/284051\">Beijing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday<\/strong>: Jerusalem<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday<\/strong>: <span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_article_NavWebPart_Article_ctl00___Sidebar__\">Ramallah to Bethlehem<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday<\/strong>: GTA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday<\/strong>: Commuting = end of the world?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> Photo by Randy Quan for the Toronto Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week The Star is featuring a series on commuting. Yesterday&#8217;s was particularly interesting, looking at what was alternately termed &#8220;London&#8217;s underground commuting hell&#8221; and &#8220;London&#8217;s unforgiving underground.&#8221; It should provide some solace to those riders &#8220;crush loaded&#8221; on to the Queen Streetcar &#8212; the transit grass isn&#8217;t always greener even in a celebrated transit<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/10\/series-on-commuting-continues-in-toronto-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7596,2745,7598,7600,2828,359,7595,21,7592,4352,7597,316,7593,7594,7599,405,339,341],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-baker-st-tube-station","tag-beijing","tag-chiltern-hills","tag-james-darley","tag-jerusalem","tag-london","tag-london-bridge","tag-other-cities","tag-princes-risborough","tag-public-relations","tag-public-relations-executive","tag-queen","tag-radnage","tag-ramallah","tag-randy-quan","tag-the-star","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/10\/series-on-commuting-continues-in-toronto-star\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week The Star is featuring a series on commuting. 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