Solar Penguin wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 12 Feb 2005:

--- Mrs Redboots said...

Why? It is probably cheaper (almost certainly, if you have Pre-pay)
to buy a ticket from Oxford Circus to Brixton & then take one of the
3 or 4 buses that go from there to Crystal Palace, and reverse it.

Or even take a Number 3 bus all the way from Crystal Palace to Oxford
Circus. The only trouble with these methods is that you end up having
to travel on a bus. Not a pleasant way to travel at the best of times.

But infinitely preferable to the Tube!

Worse, it means you're on a double-decker bus, which means annoyingly
low headroom. (Well, unless you get the single decker 322 from Crystal
Palce to Brixton, but that goes via a very long way round and takes
forever, so even the double deckers are preferable to it.)

And you can't see out of a single-decker. But sat in the front seat
upstairs on a double-decker (and since those are just by the stairs, no
problem with headroom), and in no hurry, it's a joy!

(And besides, it's all academic because I don't have Pre-pay anyway. It
isn't valid on my local NR services and I don't travel by bus enough to
bother with it.)

Well, that is fair enough!
--
"Mrs Redboots"
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