Tristán White wrote:
Barry Salter wrote in news:ehoiuj$oia$1
:

SNIP
The only times it seems to suggest using Silverlink are if you put
a Silverlink Station in as the origin...And even then it says to
change to the DLR at Canning Town.


Not surprised. The Silverlink seems to not work well on the Journey
Planner website, I've been complaining about that since it started.

Want a proof? Try typing in

tomorrow 26 October, 13:10

STATION START: CANNING TOWN
STATION END: CAMDEN TOWN

You meant CAMDEN ROAD

Now, the Silvelink does it in 26 minutes.

But the first option given is a journey involving two two journeys
(Jubilee to London Bridge, London Bridge to Camden Town) and then a
bus journey (Camden Town to Camden Road).
Total: 48 minutes.

It even chooses a route starting at 12:59!

That's because, quite reasonably, it offers several journeys starting
either side of the departure time you specified.

So complete and utter ********.

I'm not sure if it is deliberate or not, but I find it daft that the JP
offers a journey that starts earlier and finishes later than the next
one on its list, which is why that 48-minute journey shouldn't have been
included. But it's a general feature of the JP, not just NLL-related.

You and I know that the Silverlink is the best service, yet it
decides that it's the second best.

Not second best, just the second in a list ordered by departure time.
Whether Silverlink is the best service, leaving aside issues of
reliability, comfort, etc., depends on when you get to Canning Town, as
their trains only run every 30 minutes.

There is a bias about the Silverlink south of Stratford on the
site. It even gives as an option waiting 18 minutes (why?) for a
Jubilee Line, missing the Silverlink from Canning Town and then
getting the later Silverlink from Stratford.

Again, you misunderstand what the JP is offering. It doesn't suggest you
wait 18 minutes. It's telling you that if you are late getting to
Canning Town, and arrive there between 13:19 and 13:28, then
Jubilee+Silverlink is the fastest route, which is true.

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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)