It's been a while since the TfL journey planner has been *quite* that obtuse.
If I leave my house and turn right, I am about an 8 minute walk to the nearest tube station, A. If I leave my house and turn left, I am about a 3 minute walk from the nearest bus stop, and about 15 mins past that the second nearest tube station, B.
TfL have a horrible habit of telling me to take a bus to station B to start all my journeys. (They suffer from the benign delusion that buses happen at regular intervals on the relevant routes ... this far out of the centre that just doesn't happen.) I've got in the habit of plotting my journeys from 'Station A' rather than from my house to work around this problem.
On Saturday night I was venturing south of the river to meet up with some friends. I wanted to check that the pub we had arranged to meet at was the one I vaguely remembered, so popped over to BeerintheEvening, who have the TfL planner embedded in their site in such a way as it only takes postcodes.
TfL did not want me to take a bus to station B. Oh no. That would be predictable. They wanted me to take *two* buses, to get to Station A.
Station A that is, if you recall, a ten minute walk, tops. Estimated travel time for that part of the journey by bus? 18 to 24 minutes ....
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Wednesday, 6 September 2006
After all this, won't you give me a smile?
Re the so-called 'battle of the free evening papers' - there is no battle, in my opinion. Save that of trying to get past the people being paid to hand them out.
London Lite couldn't hold my attention when there was no competition, and my alternative was reading the adverts on the tube (this is not hyperbole - I was in this situation last week, due to poor planning on the book provision front). thelondonpaper, though, is fairly interesting and gets bonus points for trying to draw attention to the Astoria situation in the first issue.
I think that's all the commute-based news I was going to talk about.
Except that TfL have finally got their customer charter claims page working, so every time you're delayed 20 minutes or more it's a little easier to fill out a claim form.
London Lite couldn't hold my attention when there was no competition, and my alternative was reading the adverts on the tube (this is not hyperbole - I was in this situation last week, due to poor planning on the book provision front). thelondonpaper, though, is fairly interesting and gets bonus points for trying to draw attention to the Astoria situation in the first issue.
I think that's all the commute-based news I was going to talk about.
Except that TfL have finally got their customer charter claims page working, so every time you're delayed 20 minutes or more it's a little easier to fill out a claim form.
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