On 27 July, 15:10, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
asdf wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:37:21 +0100, Basil Jet wrote:

BTW, I am mildly amused by the timetables for the N29 which tell you
in big letters that there is a bus ever 6-8 minutes, with a footnote
saying that the following buses only go to Wood Green, giving the
exact times of the 50% which are short journeys... no-one realised
that giving the exact times of the long journeys might be more
useful than giving the exact times of the short ones... or just
giving the times of all the buses, utilizing the fact that the
timetable repeats every hour anyway. As usual with TfL information,
a one-size-fits-all policy is applied to everything, with little
care to special cases.

It's even worse for the N18. The N18 runs to Sudbury Town every 10
minutes, with every third bus continuing to Harrow Weald. However, the
timetables at stops (e.g. Trafalgar Square) don't mention the fact
that any of the buses terminate at Sudbury, i.e. they make it look
like there's a 10-minute-frequency service through to Harrow Weald.

The worst part is that there's no indication of what times the Harrow
Weald buses actually run, which I think is unacceptable for a
half-hourly service.

If it's this timetable here...http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/use...__000062ee.pdf
... the times of the Harrow Weald buses are hudden in the footnotes... but
there is no clue as to where the other buses terminate, so unless you are
going exactly to Harrow Weald, this timetable doesn't tell you whether you
have 6 buses an hour or 2. It seems to me that the main timetable panels
having an S after the time of each Sudbury bus would be a much better
solution, but I guess perceived simplicity is a higher priority than actual
simplicity. They need to learn from Einstein's (mis)quote... Make things as
simple as possible, but not simpler.

I'm not sure why they are using Long Elmes as a destination either.... are
people in Paddington Green trying to get a bus to Warren Street supposed to
know that Long Elmes is the wrong way? Do the N18s have Long Elmes written
on the front?

We should get together with news:misc.transport.urban-transit to run an
annual Most Misleading Transport Information In The World Competition, and
this timetable should be the British candidate. The prize could be an
engraved watch with a working second hand, no hour or minute hands, and the
dial replaced by the dial of a compass.-

No; Milton Keynes would win every prize, and that wouldn't be fair.