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In the meantime, please go to our site and try out our planner for yourself.

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Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
Please visit http://www.planajourney.co.uk/ where you will find our
multi-modal journey planning alternative to 'Transport Direct'.

Not bad at all. Much better than Transport Direct certainly.

Good Points
Very fast
Simple to use
Shows detail on train facilities (buffet, first class etc)
Shows full Train Descriptions (1A23 etc)
Shows detailed fare information

Bad Points
Limited range of locations (not many bus stations, no postcode lookup)
Doesn't know LUL fares
Doesn't know fares which include underground. I tried a Hertfordshire -
South London journey, and it gave directions via the Victoria Line with
interchange at Brixton (Vic is much better), and separate fares to
Finsbury Park, and from Brixton - you can get a single ticket including
the undergound.

regards
HN28

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Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:

Please visit http://www.planajourney.co.uk/ where you will find our
multi-modal journey planning alternative to 'Transport Direct'.

The September 15th issue of 'Bus and Coach Professional' will contain a
comprehensive feature article on our system.

In the meantime, please go to our site and try out our planner for yourself.

How on earth can this be described as "The BEST"? It will not
acknowledge that there is a railway line between Westbury and Salisbury,
insisting on sending me via Bath and Reading!

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Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
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I've used your Palm Rail Journey Planner for a few years now and it's
indispensable.

The online planner seems to be pretty good for planning rail journeys.
It's certainly very fast and I like the fact it gives platform numbers.
However it doesn't appear to handle door to door multi modal journeys as
well as transport-direct (which has improved greatly recently I think).

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Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
Please visit http://www.planajourney.co.uk/ where you will find our
multi-modal journey planning alternative to 'Transport Direct'.

The September 15th issue of 'Bus and Coach Professional' will contain a
comprehensive feature article on our system.

In the meantime, please go to our site and try out our planner for yourself.

Trafford to Lancaster.

OK, Manchester Trafford Centre to Lancaster Bus Station. 'No journeys'
OK, press the IE back button, not the one on the page.
Oops, it crashed.

Ok, fire it up again, Trafford Park (trains) to Lancaster (trains).
Lots of options with one change showing. Get the details, oops need to
change at WAC and WBQ.

Let's see if I can get any buses, oops IE crashed again....

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:28:19 +0100, Nick Finnigan
wrote:

OK, press the IE back button, not the one on the page.
Oops, it crashed.
[...]
Let's see if I can get any buses, oops IE crashed again....

Use a real web browser then :)

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On 9 Sep 2006 06:16:35 -0700, wrote:

Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
Please visit http://www.planajourney.co.uk/ where you will find our
multi-modal journey planning alternative to 'Transport Direct'.

Not bad at all. Much better than Transport Direct certainly.

Good Points
Very fast
Simple to use
Shows detail on train facilities (buffet, first class etc)
Shows full Train Descriptions (1A23 etc)
Shows detailed fare information

Bad Points
Limited range of locations (not many bus stations, no postcode lookup)
Doesn't know LUL fares
Doesn't know fares which include underground. I tried a Hertfordshire -
South London journey, and it gave directions via the Victoria Line with
interchange at Brixton (Vic is much better), and separate fares to
Finsbury Park, and from Brixton - you can get a single ticket including
the undergound.

Trying a trip to a South London location which I suspect is not
dissimilar to yours, I notice that it has ye olde Tramlink times, not
the current ones.

Getting pedantic, It also gives a 12 min walk from East Croydon to
West Croydon, when I find that walking from George Street is slightly
faster than from East Croydon [with the new timetable the trams go to
West Croydon anyway, but for the end-to-end journey in question the
timetable granularity means that switiching to a 410 bus at Church St
is quicker].

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

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Please visit http://www.planajourney.co.uk/ where you will find our
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Tried it for journeys into Portsmouth. It didn't recognise the name of my
hamlet or my nearest village (population about 5,000). It did recognise my
local town and the first route suggested would take nearly 5 hours as it
went up to London and then back to Portsmouth by train. I could walk it
quicker. By car it normally takes about 25 minutes in the rush hour to
travel the 12 miles.

Ian

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Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
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Hmmm...

Braunton to Barnstaple offers me a single journey at 0805.

Turns out it's our daily National Express coach, and what a bargain it
is, at a measly GPB 6.80 for a single 20-minute, six mile journey.

Sounds so much more appealing than the three buses an hour you could
catch instead (at an exorbitant GBP 2.40 day return I might add, and
with no optional insurance available to boot), doesn't it?


Neil Sunderland
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 13:38:36 +0100, Iain Wilkie Logan
wrote:

The Original and Best UK Journey Planner

Not until it recognises postcodes.

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