I have just come back from a trip to London and am wondering, am I
right in thinking that there are no walk in travel centres like I've
come to expect elsewhere in the UK anywhere in London

The Travel Information Centres that TfL advertise seem to be no more
than a glorified tube station ticket window or bus station inspector's
window. You have to ask for what publicity you want and then you have
to know what to ask for, and I'm sure they don't like giving out any
more than 1 or 2 items per person

Also whereas Tube maps are available in the racks at all tube
stations, it is very hard to find any bus maps on display anywhere.

In fact bus information is hard to find in general, once you get to a
bus stop you've got all the info, but before that there doesn't seem
to be any printed material showing even how often a bus runs. The
'Continuing your journey from' leaflets are a good idea but again
there's nothing that says if the services listed are every 4 minutes
or every 30 minutes. In my opinion it would also be a good idea to
include the bus line maps as found in bus shelters in these leaflets

It is also ironic how the only information about buses that is
available to take away is produced by London Underground and only
available at tube stations

Considering TfL seem to at least from a visitor's point of view have
it all sorted, these issues seem strange, I would have thought that
TfL would have a huge budget to spend on all kinds of maps and
leaflets

Andrew