In article ,
(Tony Dragon) wrote:

On 22/09/2013 20:09, d wrote:
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:39:09 +0100
Scott wrote:
Visiting London next weekend. Does anyone have any strong views on
which bus times app is the best? I'm not bothered about paying a
small fee to avoid adverts.

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the
tube. If you have to use a bus in London then you've messed up your
journey planning somehow.

Can anybody think of any areas of London that don't have tube or
train coverage?

Yes.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 2013\09\23 00:35, Peter Smyth wrote:
Tony Dragon wrote:

On 22/09/2013 20:09, d wrote:
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:39:09 +0100
Scott wrote:
Visiting London next weekend. Does anyone have any strong views
on which bus times app is the best? I'm not bothered about
paying a small fee to avoid adverts.

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are
slow, uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at
night. Use the tube. If you have to use a bus in London then
you've messed up your journey planning somehow.

--
Spud


Can anybody think of any areas of London that don't have tube or
train coverage?

There are parts of Camberwell that are over a mile from any station.


There are bits of Totteridge and Selsdon which are over two miles from
any station.

In message , at 09:36:16 on
Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Scott remarked:

There's 'Buses Due' (free), 'London Bus Hub' (free) and
'London Bus Checker' (£1.99).

The free ones don't seem to be available for Windows 8 (on a PC), which
is a bit of a puzzle. MS don't allow you to download a "phone" app to a
PC - so much for convergence and upwards compatibility!
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Roland Perry

In message , at 19:09:25 on Sun, 22 Sep
2013, d remarked:
Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the tube.

Tell that to my friend who turned up to catch a tube at Camden Town on
Saturday morning to find that section (not the whole) of the line
closed. They'd been expecting it to be closed on Sunday. Although rail
replacement buses were apparently available, they couldn't find them and
had to take a service bus instead and change to the tube at Warren St
(so that's an extra bus fare in TFL's coffers - very handy for them).
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Roland Perry

In message , at 23:14:32 on
Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Tony Dragon remarked:
Can anybody think of any areas of London that don't have tube or train
coverage?

Considering how central it is, there's a surprising big hole around (of
all places) the DfT. Quite a walk to St James's, Westminster or Pimlico.
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Roland Perry

In message of Sun, 22 Sep 2013
23:14:32 in uk.transport.london, Tony Dragon
writes
On 22/09/2013 20:09, d wrote:
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:39:09 +0100
Scott wrote:
Visiting London next weekend. Does anyone have any strong views on
which bus times app is the best? I'm not bothered about paying a
small fee to avoid adverts.

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the tube.
If you have to use a bus in London then you've messed up your journey
planning somehow.

--
Spud


Can anybody think of any areas of London that don't have tube or train
coverage?



It depends how you define London.
The London Loop http://www.walklondon.org.uk/route.asp?R=5 passes
through Havering-atte-Bower, where the 375 bus provides a service. It
does not run on Sundays and has a 90' service interval on Monday to
Saturday. Journey Planner suggests the trip is a 67', 5.9km, fast walk.
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Walter Briscoe

On 23/09/2013 12:27, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:14:32 +0100, Tony Dragon
wrote:

On 22/09/2013 20:09, d wrote:
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:39:09 +0100
Scott wrote:
Visiting London next weekend. Does anyone have any strong views on
which bus times app is the best? I'm not bothered about paying a
small fee to avoid adverts.

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the tube.
If you have to use a bus in London then you've messed up your journey
planning somehow.


Can anybody think of any areas of London that don't have tube or train
coverage?

There are plenty of places that are considerable distances from rail
connections. There are also plenty of areas that are more than 400
metres from a bus stop (TfL's own planning standard) and that's before
you ask yourself the question as to whether their nearest bus service
offers a practical choice in terms of places served and frequency
offered.


I'm glad that we all seem to agree, that if you live in London & use
public transport, buses are necessary & by using them you have not
messed up your journey planning.

On 2013\09\22 20:09, d wrote:

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the tube.
If you have to use a bus in London then you've messed up your journey
planning somehow.

What mind-boggling stupid thing to say. Wimbledon to South Wimbledon by
tube - that's what I'd call messed up journey planning.

Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:14:32 +0100, Tony Dragon
wrote:

On 22/09/2013 20:09, d wrote:
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:39:09 +0100
Scott wrote:
Visiting London next weekend. Does anyone have any strong views on
which bus times app is the best? I'm not bothered about paying a
small fee to avoid adverts.

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the tube.
If you have to use a bus in London then you've messed up your journey
planning somehow.


Can anybody think of any areas of London that don't have tube or train
coverage?

There are plenty of places that are considerable distances from rail
connections. There are also plenty of areas that are more than 400
metres from a bus stop (TfL's own planning standard) and that's before
you ask yourself the question as to whether their nearest bus service
offers a practical choice in terms of places served and frequency
offered.

Yes, I live around 650m from the nearest bus stop (with one bus route), and
about 1.2 km from the nearest Tube station.

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2013\09\22 20:09, d wrote:

Don't bother with the buses, they hardly ever show up on time, are slow,
uncomfortable and are usually full of scum especially at night. Use the
tube. If you have to use a bus in London then you've messed up your
journey planning somehow.

What mind-boggling stupid thing to say. Wimbledon to South Wimbledon
by tube - that's what I'd call messed up journey planning.

Walk?

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Colin Rosenstiel