In message , Dave Arquati
writes
Ian Jelf wrote:
In message , The Only
Living Boy in New Cross writes

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
...

I had a free morning on London on Tuesday so decided to bid a

farewell to

RMs on the 36.

Some observations:

As someone here commented recently, the new bus interchange at New Cross
is great for photography.


What is this "new" interchange of which you speak? I've lived in New
Cross for over five years and the interchange is just the same as
ever. I wish they would build a new one!
I was just being dim, sorry. I meant the new interchange at
*Vauxhall*!

Does the 36 normally terminate at New Cross Garage, rather than the
station? The one I was on did and so did the following two.


Back when the 36 ran from Queens Park to Lewisham, half the buses
would terminate at New Cross Garage. This situation has been
formalised with the introduction of the 436. Any bus terminating at
"New Cross" will terminate at the bus garage, except for the 321 and
the P13, which for some reason terminate at the Sainsbury's.

Finally, why do people give South of the River such a hard time? I've
seen better areas than Peckham but I've seen *much* worse, too!


Don't start me on this one...I get sick of ignorant colleagues who've
never been further south than Leicester Square looking at me as if
I've survived a war zone on a daily basis!
Some people (all North Londoners) I was talking to after a walk
recently were all coming out with this sort of stuff. I was trying
to get them interested in a guided walk of Crystal Palace and the
principal reason they weren't interested was because it was so
difficult to get to places south of the river by public transport.

Oh yes... the frequent and widespread train network in South London
makes it extremely difficult to get anywhere, not to mention trams and
buses... :-)
You just but that was precisely the point that was being made to me.
No tube = no public transport.

When I mentioned the NR network, someone said that they knew of one
station where there was only a train **every half an hour**! When I
said that most of the network had far more - and in any case every 30
minutes would be considered good in some areas - I was treated to the
incredulous one-liner "but you'd need a **timetable**"!

Perhaps that's a Tube map mentality, which might be partly resolved
when the Overground Network-style maps are combined better with Tube
maps.
Indeed.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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