Tube Strike, Really Like What ?

[Beach Hut]

Arrived at Victoria walked onto an empty train on the Victoria Line but Warren Street was shut so had to get off a Euston.

Not really a very effective strike.....................

 

[See-Goals]

OMG, you like, totally walked on to an empty train?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Walking across London Bridge was hugely busy.

Everyone knew there was a tube stike, you would have thought, if you were going to London and didn't know how to get to your destination, you might just look at a map beforehand ? Didn't seem to occur to most people this morning.

 

[Beach Hut]

OMG, you like, totally walked on to an empty train?

Well around 9 people got on it and probably 500 were outside queueing for the buses

 

[beorhthelm]

seems the core inside the circle line is running. except the circle itself, but then that barely runs anyway.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The transport network are not content with draconian terms and conditions, they can't even pull off a strike properly.

CROW, ERNEST, BEACH HUT OUT!

 

[clapham_gull]

Arrived at Victoria walked onto an empty train on the Victoria Line but Warren Street was shut so had to get off a Euston.

Not really a very effective strike.....................

Depends where you have to get old boy and where you have to go.

Clapham Junction was getting wonderfully irate at around 7 O'Clock for the London Overground.

If you weren't there by 7:30, I'd imagine you are looking at an hour wait to get on a train.

 

[Titanic]

One of my colleagues, who's been getting the tube from London Bridge to Aldgate East for the past 6 years, walked it with me this morning... allowing for the change of lines and the lengthy walk at LB... he was amazed to find that we got here at the same time he usually does!

 

[Biscuit]

I actually got to work quicker. I took the earlier overground train (being cautious) that doesn’t stop at all the silly little stations and got me to Old Street asap. I then took the Northen Line, that turned up very promptly, straight to Camden Town. My underground Journey was actually quicker as it didn’t stop at Angel.

 

[Biscuit]

Well around 9 people got on it and probably 500 were outside queueing for the buses

I found that as well. Buses were packed tubes were fine. I even got a seat! That doesn't normally happen!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

One of my colleagues, who's been getting the tube from London Bridge to Aldgate East for the past 6 years, walked it with me this morning... allowing for the change of lines and the lengthy walk at LB... he was amazed to find that we got here at the same time he usually does!

It's not exactly very far is it ?? For years I walked most of the way there, only up to Tower Hill, about 10-15 mins tops. I now have LB to Bishopsgate, about the same distance. I don't know why anyone would ever not walk that far, apart from exceptional lateness.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I am slightly under the weather today and therefore off, but had been asked to go to work early to cover those who wouldn't be able to easily make it, me being a seasoned cyclist. I reckon those protection-free barclays bike zones would have been infested by the desperate, mostly those from the city who pedal slowly and invincibly. They would have got on my wick.
I reckon Boris didn't fight the strike that hard to show how his two-wheeled promotion had paid off and anyone could get anywhere with ease and a slightly sweaty back and in every normal cyclist's bloody way.
Blah.

 

[beorhthelm]

It's not exactly very far is it ?? ... I don't know why anyone would ever not walk that far, apart from exceptional lateness.

alot of people have no concept of distances in London and think things are further apart. it always used to amuse me to see people on my train into LB go off to the tube and see them walking into the Fitness First near Old street 25min later. i had just had a nice walk and saved the cost of the gym and Z1 travel card.

 

[Scoffers]

I didnt even bother with the tube, got the LB train, then took the overland to Charing Cross and walked to work at Oxford Circus, made a nice change!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

alot of people have no concept of distances in London and think things are further apart. it always used to amuse me to see people on my train into LB go off to the tube and see them walking into the Fitness First near Old street 25min later. i had just had a nice walk and saved the cost of the gym and Z1 travel card.

That is very true, and I suppose if you don't know your way around, then it probably seems further than it really is.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

I got to Victoria then walked to my office in Whitehall...Then again, I do that every morning anyway.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Rustington BHA

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There's surely an alternative tube map that shows stations in their true geographic positions?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

When I worked in London I found this map showing walking times useful in deciding whether to walk or take the tube. Like some posters have said places in central London are much closer together than people realise – and when you take into account all the stairs and escalators on the tube walking is often a quicker alternative

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

There's surely an alternative tube map that shows stations in their true geographic positions?

Google Maps does exactly that. Go to a map of anywhere in London, then at the top there is a 'More" option, select public transport and Bob's your Aunty's live in lover!

 

[beorhthelm]

There's surely an alternative tube map that shows stations in their true geographic positions?

theres a great poster on the district line that shows the line snakeing through the city with proper geopgrahpic perspective from the west.