Chris Tolley wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:47:10 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote:

I did once meet a couple of Imperial students on the Circle line on
their way from Gloucester Road to High St Ken... having walked from
Imperial to Gloucester Road to catch the Tube because they didn't know
the way to Kensington High St on foot! Some scientists have no common
sense...

It isn't common sense they lacked, but local knowledge. I'd reckon these
people were engineers rather than scientists. they chose a robust
solution to a simple problem.

Actually I was generalising... they were medics...

Surely common sense would dictate that you ask someone. Also combining
the fact that the distance was only one Tube stop, and that they must
have known that many other Imperial students go to the shops on Ken High
St, would have led to a reasonable conclusion...

Personally I'd probably baulk at the price more than the distance.

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Dave Arquati wrote:
I did once meet a couple of Imperial students on the Circle line on
their way from Gloucester Road to High St Ken... having walked from
Imperial to Gloucester Road to catch the Tube because they didn't
know
the way to Kensington High St on foot! Some scientists have no common

sense...

Or the science museum tourists I followed down the subway to South Ken
when there was no circle line. They muttered about how awkward it was
to get to High St Ken

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OK that's up to you, but do you at least admit that the decision depends
on various factors, for example how heavy the luggage is and whether
there are wheels on it? Whether it's raining? Can you honestly not
imagine a situation where this tube journey might ever be a good idea?
Even if you can't, you have to admit there's not much in it, surely?


I agree there's not much in it, which is why I find the idea of someone
paying a £2 fare for the privilege (vs a short, free walk) fairly
unlikely.

Obviously it would be a different matter if you already had a travelcard,
so the cost of the journey would effectively be free, but that's straying
from the original point about somebody paying the single fare to make a
journey from Euston to MC.


When I worked in between MC and Camden Town, I thought nothing of
walking to Euston, and I'm a right fat lazy *******, me.

That's not quite my point - what I'm saying is there may be circumstances
when what seems to you at first sight like an idiotic solution is a
perfectly good idea.


Sorry, I can only see very, _very_ exceptional circumstances, in which
paying full fare to go from the surface at Euston to the surface at MC
would be a good idea.

For example, if I needed to go somewhere North of MC, and there was a
violent riot taking place in Eversholt street, I might consider it.

BTN

"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote in message
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"Jim" wrote in message
k...


OK that's up to you, but do you at least admit that the decision depends
on various factors, for example how heavy the luggage is and whether
there are wheels on it? Whether it's raining? Can you honestly not
imagine a situation where this tube journey might ever be a good idea?
Even if you can't, you have to admit there's not much in it, surely?


I agree there's not much in it, which is why I find the idea of someone
paying a £2 fare for the privilege (vs a short, free walk) fairly
unlikely.

Obviously it would be a different matter if you already had a travelcard,
so the cost of the journey would effectively be free, but that's straying
from the original point about somebody paying the single fare to make a
journey from Euston to MC.


When I worked in between MC and Camden Town, I thought nothing of
walking to Euston, and I'm a right fat lazy *******, me.

That's not quite my point - what I'm saying is there may be circumstances
when what seems to you at first sight like an idiotic solution is a
perfectly good idea.


Sorry, I can only see very, _very_ exceptional circumstances, in which
paying full fare to go from the surface at Euston to the surface at MC
would be a good idea.

For example, if I needed to go somewhere North of MC, and there was a
violent riot taking place in Eversholt street, I might consider it.


I think you'd be surprised how many people would do this under much less
exceptional circumstances.

xx j

Sorry, I can only see very, _very_ exceptional circumstances,
in which paying full fare to go from the surface at Euston to
the surface at MC would be a good idea.

For example, if I needed to go somewhere North of MC, and
there was a violent riot taking place in Eversholt street, I
might consider it.

And if there was a non-violent riot?


Matt Ashby
www.mattashby.com

Dave Arquati wrote:

I did once meet a couple of Imperial students on the Circle line on
their way from Gloucester Road to High St Ken... having walked from
Imperial to Gloucester Road to catch the Tube because they didn't know
the way to Kensington High St on foot! Some scientists have no common
sense...

Funnily enough, in all the years I've been travelling to IC (mostly, as
last night, for the express purpose of consumption of intoxicating
liquor...), I've still never learnt the route from HSK to the Union Bar.
Which I suspect would have been quicker than waiting 5 minutes for a
Circle line train, and walking up from Gloucester Road...

Dave Arquati wrote:
Chris Tolley wrote:

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:47:10 +0000, Dave Arquati wrote:

I did once meet a couple of Imperial students on the Circle line on
their way from Gloucester Road to High St Ken... having walked from
Imperial to Gloucester Road to catch the Tube because they didn't
know the way to Kensington High St on foot! Some scientists have no
common sense...


It isn't common sense they lacked, but local knowledge. I'd reckon these
people were engineers rather than scientists. they chose a robust
solution to a simple problem.


Actually I was generalising... they were medics...

Oh, well, enough said!

In message ,
Colin Rosenstiel writes

I did once meet a couple of Imperial students on the Circle line on
their way from Gloucester Road to High St Ken... having walked from
Imperial to Gloucester Road to catch the Tube because they didn't know
the way to Kensington High St on foot! Some scientists have no common
sense...

Not just scientists!
There does seem to be some sort of level playing field, those that are
intelligent tend to lack common sense and those less blessed with
intelligence tend to be more savvy.
--
Clive.

James Farrar wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:

I did once meet a couple of Imperial students on the Circle line on

their way from Gloucester Road to High St Ken... having walked from

Imperial to Gloucester Road to catch the Tube because they didn't
know
the way to Kensington High St on foot! Some scientists have no
common
sense...

Funnily enough, in all the years I've been travelling to IC (mostly,
as
last night, for the express purpose of consumption of intoxicating
liquor...), I've still never learnt the route from HSK to the Union
Bar.
Which I suspect would have been quicker than waiting 5 minutes for a
Circle line train, and walking up from Gloucester Road...

It's pretty simple... from hsk tube turn right and walk until you get
to the albert hall