"Graham Harrison" wrote in message
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"Richard J." wrote in message
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There's a new TfL site in beta testing at http://beta.tfl.gov.uk
They're asking for feedback (link at top right of home page), and my
initial impression is that they certainly need lots of feedback. The new
Journey Planner results are presented appallingly, merging the current
levels 1, 2 and 3 into a sprawling mess.

I like the current TfL site presentation. It's generally logical, and
makes good use of the screen. The new one seems to require endless
scrolling of widely spaced lines. Usability badly degraded is my initial
impression.
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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

I'm an infrequent user of the website. It might also be relevant to say
I'm using a 1920x1080 display and Firefox.

On first impressions I quite like the new layout. I'm not sure about the
graphic that informs me "we're working on it" but at least the whole thing
doesn't go blank and leave you wondering. The only real issue I had was
that when I clicked on a route to see details I couldn't close it until I
went to the header and clicked there which wasn't terribly intuitive for me.

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from LHR (T123) to Vic in 43 minutes (on the tube) pretty impressive, I wish
I could manage that in real life

Though sometimes it suggest HeX in 38 minutes.

But, of course, both of these times assume that I am standing on the
platform, bst as these two options start from platforms at least 5 minutes
apart both can be possible.

And whilst there's an option to turn off national rail, there's no option to
turn off premium priced rail. An "oyster" only and/or "fare applicable to
capping" options would be nice.

And it tells me there's delays due to engineering works on the Picc -
between South Harrow and Uxbridge. Why do I need to know this?

Finally, I assume that the "current location" only works if you are on
public Wi-Fi or 3G and not on fixed line BB.

If they can't determine your location it would be nice if the result of
trying was a box telling you so, not just "nothing"

tim