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April 16th 08, 05:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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London Buses - Why do I bother?

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:07:29 -0700 (PDT),
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On 15 Apr, 18:09, James Farrar wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:54:48 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

But that said, I commute to Hammersmith every day, and even though
there's a bus that stops outside my office and thirty seconds from my
house, I would be absolutely insane to take it because it takes an
interminable time to do the length of Oxford Street.

Right. And the Picadilly takes about 20 minutes and, as a backup plan,
the H&C takes about 25, so there's not much reason to consider the bus
for that kind of regular journey.

I take the H&C anyway for the morning journey. It takes longer on
average but there's significantly less chance of spending twenty
minutes being forced to cram into another human being's armpit in
order to get on a train.

True enough. I travel west from Great Portland Street at various times
between 6:30am and 8:30am and the H&C doesn't get "need-to-stand" busy
until after 7am and doesn't even start feeling crowded until after
7:30 - and even then it mostly empties out by Edgware Road or
Paddington.

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