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Alistair Bell · October 31st 04, 06:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

(James) wrote in message . com...
Some
things aren't intuitive. If you arrive by TGV at Montparnasse and want
to go to CDG Airport, most people would look at the map, take the 4 to
St-Michel or Châtelet, then transfer to line B. For a start the RER's
nearer Halles than Châtelet (and don't even think about St-Michel),
but why walk all that way to line 4 (and it IS a VERY long way to
lines 4 and 12 at Montparnasse) only to sit on a slow packed train
anyway. The answer is, if you didn't know, line 6 towards Nation,
changing at Denfert-Rochereau onto the RER.

Yes, but that's the same as knowing 'if you're going from Victoria to
Heathrow, don't change to the Picc at Earl's Court or South Ken -- use
Hammersmith or Barons Court' or 'by far the easiest way from Waterloo
to King's Cross is to take the Bakerloo and change at Oxford Circus'.
London has its share of counterintuitiveness too...