In message
,
Paul writes
On Dec 13, 10:34*am, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
00:15:06 on Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Paul remarked:

i have just tried to look up *journey on Boxing Day, and it says that
information will be available "..mid December...". *i would have
thought that 13th December counts as "mid December".

It's still November up at EMT's HST depot (where they are fitting wifi)
and of course at the Cambridge Guided Bus site we are still waiting for
"Late Summer" 2009 to arrive.
--
Roland Perry

I see that Tfl have now posted a link for Christmas and New Year
travel information on their website.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/...ore_you_travel

It says "To plan your quickest way around London over Christmas and
New Year, use Journey Planner. "

Of course, when you go into journey planner and actually click on a
date over the Christmas and New Year period, it says "information
regarding services over the Christmas period will be available in mid
December." Lets hope that someone remembers to upload the information
before Tfl closes down for Christmas Day.



I emailed TfL regarding this issue when I ran across it in November
(trying to make arrangements for Boxing Day). I did point out that
National Rail these days try to give 12 weeks notice, so TfL giving less
than that was disappointing (to my mind).

I love the "I hope this helps" little sign off, so touching, so caring,
so completely missing the point.

Here's their response:
Dear Paul

Thank you for your email.

Journey Planner is setup a year at a time - November to November. In
the later part of each year, our Journey Planner team work hard to
develop the system for the following year - i.e.: to include December
2010 and onwards.

We need to compile routing and timetable information for all normal
services during December, especially over the Christmas period when
services are particularly disrupted, before we can offer route planning
facilities.

Historically, we have always announced the Christmas schedule around
the first or second week of December, including the dedicated Boxing
Day bus timetables.

We believe it is important to have all data released at the same time
to provide accurate multi-modal journeys, rather than incomplete or
partly inaccurate information.

Subsequently, New Years Eve and New Years Day information is expected
to be available just before Christmas, with full timetables for the
special all-night Underground, Bus and Tramlink services.

When diversion information is received for the Central London
celebrations, these stops will also be removed from Journey Planner.



I hope this helps



Kind regards