London Banter - View Single Post - London Underground 'best metro in Europe'

Ian Jelf · April 27th 09, 09:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:03:17 +0100
Ian Jelf wrote:
Such judgements are always subjective, of course. But I have always
been a firm believer in the fact that London's transport system as a
whole is one of the best in Europe.

Poor reliability and sky high prices.

By European (but certainly not by UK) standards, London is expensive.

I seldom have any reason to complain about reliability in my fairly
extensive use of the Tube. Nor do I have problems with buses but
whenever I make such a point on here I always caution that I only really
use buses frequently in Central London. (Although whenever I've needed
them in suburbia I have no complaints and again the network compares
very well indeed with those in other parts of Britain.)

I wouldn't categorise it as anything
close to the best. I'll take frequent services and cheap tickets over tidy
stations any day. The NYC subway is a dump but the trains are fast, frequent,
air conditioned and it doesn't cost much.

Are they any more frequent than our Tube? I didn't get that impression
(I appreciate that they have express services superimposed.). I also
found it a much harder system to navigate.

networks, although I've not been to either. (Nor have I been to Moscow
but I've had a look at Gants Hill and I'm told it's much the
same.......)

Its the same in the way that primark is the same as harrods.

Well, they're both shops....... :-))
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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