"Recliner" wrote in message
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I don't know how long this has been around, but I'd not seen it befo

"Walking can be a quick and easy way to get around, particularly when
travelling during the busiest times, which are 08:00-09:00 and 17:30-18:30
Monday to Friday. The table below shows some popular journeys within zones
1 and 2 that are quicker to walk."

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-tu...rney-times.pdf





I don't believe that there's a single person in the whole world who gets the
tube from Bayswater to Queensway, or Gt Portland St to Regents Park.

It's bleeding obvious to anyone who has a map, that when you are standing at
one of these stations that then other one of the pair is 2 minutes walk up
the road.

What does happen though is that people making a longer journey make a change
to get to one of the stations when they could have stayed on the line that
they are on to get to its pair.

tim

tim... wrote:

"Recliner" wrote in message
...
I don't know how long this has been around, but I'd not seen it befo

"Walking can be a quick and easy way to get around, particularly when
travelling during the busiest times, which are 08:00-09:00 and 17:30-18:30
Monday to Friday. The table below shows some popular journeys within zones
1 and 2 that are quicker to walk."

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-tu...rney-times.pdf





I don't believe that there's a single person in the whole world who gets the
tube from Bayswater to Queensway, or Gt Portland St to Regents Park.

It's bleeding obvious to anyone who has a map, that when you are standing at
one of these stations that then other one of the pair is 2 minutes walk up
the road.

What does happen though is that people making a longer journey make a change
to get to one of the stations when they could have stayed on the line that
they are on to get to its pair.

You're probably right, but I've seen lots of tourists apparently using the
Tube map as their map of London, with no sign of a street map.

Recliner wrote:
You're probably right, but I've seen lots of tourists apparently using the
Tube map as their map of London, with no sign of a street map.

Yes - as an infrequent London visitor it's taken a long time to get beyond
the tube map as my mental model of London. At first it was because it was
much clearer and more convenient than the A to Z. These days with Google
Maps et al it's easier to have a real map to hand, but the tube map is still
my primary model when I don't have one. And I usually end up being the
'local' whenever I go to London with other people who know less than I do.

(But the problem with the walking times PDF is it's in alphabetical order,
so no use to people for whom the tube map is their primary model)

Theo

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:15:44 +0100, "tim..."
wrote:


"Recliner" wrote in message
...
I don't know how long this has been around, but I'd not seen it befo

"Walking can be a quick and easy way to get around, particularly when
travelling during the busiest times, which are 08:00-09:00 and 17:30-18:30
Monday to Friday. The table below shows some popular journeys within zones
1 and 2 that are quicker to walk."

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-tu...rney-times.pdf





I don't believe that there's a single person in the whole world who gets the
tube from Bayswater to Queensway, or Gt Portland St to Regents Park.

It's bleeding obvious to anyone who has a map, that when you are standing at
one of these stations that then other one of the pair is 2 minutes walk up
the road.

What does happen though is that people making a longer journey make a change
to get to one of the stations when they could have stayed on the line that
they are on to get to its pair.

tim



I once stopped a colleague trying to take the tube from Lancaster Gate
to Paddington. A bit further than Bayswater to Queensway but still
much, much faster than the tube.

Even longer distances can be competitive. I met several colleagues
on a train into Paddington. We were all going to Victoria Coach
Station. They took the Circle (as it was then) and I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

I often think that one of the problems is that we all call the
Underground map a map. It's a diagram and if people understood that
some (but not all) would find out about the alternatives.

On 2016\08\30 23:28, Graham Harrison wrote:

Even longer distances can be competitive. I met several colleagues
on a train into Paddington. We were all going to Victoria Coach
Station. They took the Circle (as it was then) and I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

Bloody hell, did they go via Aldgate?

On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 23:50:55 UTC+1, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\08\30 23:28, Graham Harrison wrote:

Even longer distances can be competitive. I met several colleagues
on a train into Paddington. We were all going to Victoria Coach
Station. They took the Circle (as it was then) and I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

Bloody hell, did they go via Aldgate?

....And which park is meant? Is it Hyde and Green sellotaped together?

In message , at
07:07:29 on Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Offramp remarked:
Even longer distances can be competitive. I met several colleagues
on a train into Paddington. We were all going to Victoria Coach
Station. They took the Circle (as it was then) and I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

Bloody hell, did they go via Aldgate?

...And which park is meant? Is it Hyde and Green sellotaped together?

Anyone walking through Green Park on a short cut from Paddington to
Victoria is lost.

In other news, Google maps says it's a 46 minute walk, and 20 minutes on
the Circle; but it's not unknown that the Circle is unreliable, has a 10
minute latency, and some people walk fast.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message ,
at 07:07:29 on Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Offramp remarked:
Even longer distances can be competitive. I met several colleagues
on a train into Paddington. We were all going to Victoria Coach
Station. They took the Circle (as it was then) and I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

Bloody hell, did they go via Aldgate?

...And which park is meant? Is it Hyde and Green sellotaped together?

Anyone walking through Green Park on a short cut from Paddington to
Victoria is lost.

In other news, Google maps says it's a 46 minute walk, and 20 minutes
on the Circle; but it's not unknown that the Circle is unreliable,
has a 10 minute latency, and some people walk fast.

We walked from the Science Museum to Lancaster Gate station to get the
Central Line to Liverpool St. As we had a baby and pram it was probably as
good as the alternatives.

Leaving shortly after the museum closed at 7 we could have caught the 19:58
had my daughter not prioritised getting food at Liverpool Street first.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Friday, 2 September 2016 15:31:27 UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

Bloody hell, did they go via Aldgate?

...And which park is meant? Is it Hyde and Green sellotaped together?

Anyone walking through Green Park on a short cut from Paddington to
Victoria is lost.

Thank you Roland for your interesting comment.

Which park is meant?

In message , at
06:24:09 on Sat, 3 Sep 2016, Offramp remarked:
I walked across
the park and arrived 3 minutes after they did.

Bloody hell, did they go via Aldgate?

...And which park is meant? Is it Hyde and Green sellotaped together?

Anyone walking through Green Park on a short cut from Paddington to
Victoria is lost.

Thank you Roland for your interesting comment.

Which park is meant?

Hyde.
--
Roland Perry