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| Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"The difference between a seasoned Tube rider and a novice, is the seasoned person look at the big map in the station and goes, (this example i'll use my station at High barnet) in their head they'll say "Straight down to kings x, change to Met Line up to Finchley Road"
You plan before in your head, work out your interchanges and just do it, then you stare at the line map on the wall of the train 'occasionally' until you get your station, and then look for the maroon arrows.
The newbie doesn't, they pick their map up at the station, scan it, look over it, over and over again, jump on at platform 3 because the train is there even though 1&2 leave first, they sit there going over the map again, get going, stare at the line map on the carriage, station by station counting them down. Off they get left and right not knowing which way to go, then just follow the exit sign or speak to station staff asking the way, finally get to the Met line, ask people if they are going in the right direction, accidentally get on a circle line train, get off at Baker St, change on the right train, count down the stations again on the line map.
In short, you can usually spot them a mile off'"
When I was sorting out the emissions controls for LTB I used to love working with Frankie Darch of London General. He was 30 years "on the buses" and what that bloke didn't know about how to get around the capital could be written on a postage stamp.
I'd be down there for a week at a time and the only time I used my car was in the middle of the night to move the specialist measuring and monitoring equipment from garage to garage. During the day I'd be chaperoned by Frank. Not only did he know which buses and tubes to use, he also knew all the back stairs and seret passageways at stations. I don't think we ever waited more than a minute for any connection to arrive. | | |
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| Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"Tube maps can be misleading if you were in Oxford st and you wanted to go to Bayswater you go central line to nott hill gate the c&d line to bayswater on the map. But i'd get off at Queensway and cross the road outside. The app tells you, the paper map doesn't, for the layman the app is better.'"
After reading this, I downloaded the London Transport Planner app (I assume that's the one you're talking about?) ahead of the cup final. It seems to disagree with google maps
For example, going from Osterley Park Hotel (TW7 5NA) to Wembley Stadium at 11am.
1 hour 16 mins journey according to [url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Osterley+Park+Hotel,+United+Kingdom,+Greater+London,+Great+West+Rd,+Osterley+Park+Hotel&daddr=wembley+stadium&hl=en&ll=51.547589,-0.270324&spn=0.024713,0.066047&sll=51.520589,-0.291715&sspn=0.095491,0.264187&geocode=FbePEQMdHNT6_ylhLQVlBQ12SDGkYnWR2kTPzg%3BFbauEgMd1rv7_ykr35vNgRF2SDFMcfpzFpgN_g&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=24%2F08%2F13&time=11:00&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=def&mra=ls&t=m&z=15&start=0google maps[/url - H91 bus to Gunnersbury, train to Wembley Central (change at Wilsden Junction). It then says to get a bus to the stadium but I'm guessing it's walking distance.
According to the app it takes 1 hour 34mins - Walk to Syon Rail Station, train to Wembley Park (changing at Vauxhall Underground then Green Park then Finchley)
I'm not sure which to trust now. Is this because the app knows about upcoming engineering works, or does it not have as much information at its disposal as google?  | | | |
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| Quote Grimmy="Grimmy"After reading this, I downloaded the London Transport Planner app (I assume that's the one you're talking about?) ahead of the cup final. It seems to disagree with google maps
For example, going from Osterley Park Hotel (TW7 5NA) to Wembley Stadium at 11am.
1 hour 16 mins journey according to [url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Osterley+Park+Hotel,+United+Kingdom,+Greater+London,+Great+West+Rd,+Osterley+Park+Hotel&daddr=wembley+stadium&hl=en&ll=51.547589,-0.270324&spn=0.024713,0.066047&sll=51.520589,-0.291715&sspn=0.095491,0.264187&geocode=FbePEQMdHNT6_ylhLQVlBQ12SDGkYnWR2kTPzg%3BFbauEgMd1rv7_ykr35vNgRF2SDFMcfpzFpgN_g&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=24%2F08%2F13&time=11:00&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=def&mra=ls&t=m&z=15&start=0google maps[/url - H91 bus to Gunnersbury, train to Wembley Central (change at Wilsden Junction). It then says to get a bus to the stadium but I'm guessing it's walking distance.
According to the app it takes 1 hour 34mins - Walk to Syon Rail Station, train to Wembley Park (changing at Vauxhall Underground then Green Park then Finchley)
I'm not sure which to trust now. Is this because the app knows about upcoming engineering works, or does it not have as much information at its disposal as google?
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Guessing something being walking distance when the directions are telling you to catch a bus COULD be a big mistake.
Personally because it's a Cup Final at Wembley I'd forget about using the bus and just rely on the tube. | | |
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| Quote Grimmy="Grimmy"After reading this, I downloaded the London Transport Planner app (I assume that's the one you're talking about?) ahead of the cup final. It seems to disagree with google maps
For example, going from Osterley Park Hotel (TW7 5NA) to Wembley Stadium at 11am.
1 hour 16 mins journey according to [url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Osterley+Park+Hotel,+United+Kingdom,+Greater+London,+Great+West+Rd,+Osterley+Park+Hotel&daddr=wembley+stadium&hl=en&ll=51.547589,-0.270324&spn=0.024713,0.066047&sll=51.520589,-0.291715&sspn=0.095491,0.264187&geocode=FbePEQMdHNT6_ylhLQVlBQ12SDGkYnWR2kTPzg%3BFbauEgMd1rv7_ykr35vNgRF2SDFMcfpzFpgN_g&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=24%2F08%2F13&time=11:00&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=def&mra=ls&t=m&z=15&start=0google maps[/url - H91 bus to Gunnersbury, train to Wembley Central (change at Wilsden Junction). It then says to get a bus to the stadium but I'm guessing it's walking distance.
According to the app it takes 1 hour 34mins - Walk to Syon Rail Station, train to Wembley Park (changing at Vauxhall Underground then Green Park then Finchley)
I'm not sure which to trust now. Is this because the app knows about upcoming engineering works, or does it not have as much information at its disposal as google?
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I'd just walk to Osterley underground station, take the Piccadilly Line and change at Green Park to the Jubilee Line which takes you to Wembley Park .. then you get [uTHE[/u walk to the stadium, with all the atmosphere, down Olympic Way. | | |
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| Quote El Barbudo="El Barbudo"I'd just walk to Osterley underground station, take the Piccadilly Line and change at Green Park to the Jubilee Line which takes you to Wembley Park .. then you get [uTHE[/u walk to the stadium, with all the atmosphere, down Olympic Way.'"
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