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Shepherds Bush Central Line
On 2 Nov, 12:51, " wrote: (snip) The fact that the main road leading to the shopping centre from the South, Holland Avenue or whatever it's called is being dug up, with narrow lanes (actually one lane, thanks to idiot parking at week-ends) meant that last week-end, even BEFORE the shopping centre opened there was traffic tailbacks right the way down to High Street Kensington. This will mean it is virtually impossible to get to the shopping centre by car from South London, unless one wants to queue for an hour or so! There's a simple solution to this - bring a camping gas stove and cook yourself a full English Breakfast in your car whilst you wait in the traffic jam. Is the "idiot parking" on Holland Road merely residents doing what they are allowed to do at weekends according to the parking restrictions? Of course there are other ways to approach Westfield by car from the south, such as by joining the A40 Westway at Paddington or by coming up through Putney, Fulham and Hammersmith. (There are also ways through the back-streets of Chelsea that avoid the Earl's Court one- way system, though they're somewhat complex.) However the best way to approach it from south London is surely by train or tube, though not at rush hour! The London Overground WLL service will take you up there from Clapham Junction, and come December (unless I've got this muddled) trains going up the WLL from will be starting from East Croydon stopping at all stations via Norbury and Balham (I forget - is this service going to become more frequent than hourly?). Another alternative of course is simply not to go to Westfield, and instead to go elsewhere - south of the river Croydon, Bromley and Kingston instantly spring to mind as large shopping destinations. Or just don't go shopping! |
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"Mizter T" wrote However the best way to approach it from south London is surely by train or tube, though not at rush hour! The London Overground WLL service will take you up there from Clapham Junction, and come December (unless I've got this muddled) trains going up the WLL from will be starting from East Croydon stopping at all stations via Norbury and Balham (I forget - is this service going to become more frequent than hourly?). Another alternative of course is simply not to go to Westfield, and instead to go elsewhere - south of the river Croydon, Bromley and Kingston instantly spring to mind as large shopping destinations. Though South-east London doesn't have any one-change train journey to Westfield. They can however drive (or get a bus) to Bluewater. If you go by train to Greenhithe for Bluewater (nice new modular station) with a through ticket to Bluewater you transfer on Fastrack Route A. This has a bizarre [1] system whereby you must obtain a ticket from the bus stop ticket machine before boarding. Even if you have a through (rail issued) ticket you have to use the bus stop ticket machine to obtain a zero fare bus ticket. On Friday three teenage girls didn't understand this, but, excellent service, the bus driver got out and showed them how to do it. [1] At least if you have a (physical) travelcard, or a Freedom Pass (or indeed a concessionary travel pass issued by a local authority anywhere in England) you don't need to obtain a bus ticket before boarding a central London Bendybus. Peter |
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Shepherds Bush Central Line
On Nov 2, 1:48�pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 2 Nov, 12:51, " wrote: (snip) The fact that the main road leading to the shopping centre from the South, Holland Avenue or whatever it's called is being dug up, with narrow lanes (actually one lane, thanks to idiot parking at week-ends) meant that last week-end, even BEFORE the shopping centre opened there was traffic tailbacks right the way down to High Street Kensington. This will mean it is virtually impossible to get to the shopping centre by car from South London, unless one wants to queue for an hour or so! There's a simple solution to this - bring a camping gas stove and cook yourself a full English Breakfast in your car whilst you wait in the traffic jam. Is the "idiot parking" on Holland Road merely residents doing what they are allowed to do at weekends according to the parking restrictions? Of course there are other ways to approach Westfield by car from the south, such as by joining the A40 Westway at Paddington or by coming up through Putney, Fulham and Hammersmith. (There are also ways through the back-streets of Chelsea that avoid the Earl's Court one- way system, though they're somewhat complex.) However the best way to approach it from south London is surely by train or tube, though not at rush hour! The London Overground WLL service will take you up there from Clapham Junction, and come December (unless I've got this muddled) trains going up the WLL from will be starting from East Croydon stopping at all stations via Norbury and Balham (I forget - is this service going to become more frequent than hourly?). Another alternative of course is simply not to go to Westfield, and instead to go elsewhere - south of the river Croydon, Bromley and Kingston instantly spring to mind as large shopping destinations. Or just don't go shopping! Mizter T, I made the comment merely as an observation. I accept your final sentence in its entirety - I hardly ever do any shopping and when I do it's mostly online. I have and want nothing to do with Westfield or any other shopping centre. I was merely en route from Fulham (where I live) to Cambridge for a long week-end, which was made considerably shorter by the traffic jam! I will certainly avoid the area like the plague in future. The "idiot parking" was a parked German-registered car which prevented the "narrow lanes" operating, creating a 1-lane bottleneck at the pinch point where road works begin, so what should have been 2 narrow lanes was actually reduced to one lane for that car-length. Marc. |
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Shepherds Bush Central Line
"Mizter T" wrote in message
... | |... | | However the best way to approach it from south London is surely by | train or tube, though not at rush hour! The London Overground WLL | service will take you up there from Clapham Junction, and come | December (unless I've got this muddled) trains going up the WLL from | will be starting from East Croydon stopping at all stations via | Norbury and Balham (I forget - is this service going to become more | frequent than hourly?). | The service in the December 2008 timetable will be hourly (off peak and weekend). However, there seem to be two pathways each hour allowed between the West London Line platforms 16 and 17 at Clapham Junction and the Brighton Lines. The revised service uses the alternate path to the one currently in use, so those of you who use this link will find your departure times from Clapham Junction radically different in a few weeks. The other path appears to be left unused for the time being, which as this service is being transferred from "fast" to "slow" lines will result in one 10-minute gap in each hour in the "stopping" service between Clapham Junction and Balham, compared to the current service which is a minimum 6 minute interval. So it seems the potential exists for two trains per hour each way if demand justifies it. -- - Yokel - oo oo OOO OOO OO 0 OO ) ( I ) ( ) ( /\ ) ( "Yokel" posts via a spam-trap account which is not read. |
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