Update on July 29th 2012 – You can ignore all my rants about Tooting Leisure Centre and their lack of online timetables – you can now view the swimming timetable for Tooting online, and even filter it by, for example, Adult Lane Swimming. Now all they need to do is to get some lane discipline going…
At last! This will be of interest to nobody except other Tootingese, but Kinetika have at last published the swimming timetable for Tooting Leisure Centre online [update on Feb 18th 2010: this link has been dead for a long time: please see later post here]
Having a corporate website that doesn’t provide information that the public might want to access is, well, typical of the dumb way that people use computers and the net. I guess I could now take down my Tooting Swimming Times page now after so many years, except that it’s still more useful as a quick guide to when the pool’s open to the public than the official one. It’s too much to ask that Kinetika publish updates so that the public know if there’s a gala on and the pool’s closed. It would take them 5 minutes to update the site, whereas the number of hours wasted by members of the public turning up to a pool that’s closed runs into hundreds.
One day I’m also going to challenge them on their policy of having a ‘ladies’ swimming’ on a Saturday afternoon, but no equivalent for men. Surely we men should get a discount, or do we have to accept that this is just a kind of Feminist Tax? What have I ever done to women that I have subsidise their leisure activities? I’ve slightly changed my view on this now: I still think it’s wrong, but I now think it’s wrong because of the gender-assumptions underlying it: what about the many groups of people who may also wish to swim alone, for reasons other than their biological sex?
