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Post by Dillon95 on May 21, 2021 18:52:38 GMT
Wasn’t it to stop the general public from using them? Maybe once the buses can go back to full capacity they may open them back up to the public and start putting the route numbers back on the stops I'm currently looking at a journey to Potters Bar on the TfL planner, it would rather I use the 699 (not knowing whether I'm an adult or child) than the train to Potters Bar! Bit of a waste of money to remove tiles if TfL still suggests the routes to people Edit : I give up with the garbage thing, it thinks that South Mimms is in Crawley Oh it’s awful. You can’t beat the old bus quadrant maps, the proper spider maps showing the full length of the routes and the train and tube map.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2021 21:01:12 GMT
I'm currently looking at a journey to Potters Bar on the TfL planner, it would rather I use the 699 (not knowing whether I'm an adult or child) than the train to Potters Bar! Bit of a waste of money to remove tiles if TfL still suggests the routes to people Edit : I give up with the garbage thing, it thinks that South Mimms is in Crawley Oh it’s awful. You can’t beat the old bus quadrant maps, the proper spider maps showing the full length of the routes and the train and tube map. It's a shame that the majority of spider maps are disappearing, personally I was a fan of them. The new set of criteria for an area to have a spider map created is sadly much tighter
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Post by Dillon95 on May 21, 2021 22:14:37 GMT
Oh it’s awful. You can’t beat the old bus quadrant maps, the proper spider maps showing the full length of the routes and the train and tube map. It's a shame that the majority of spider maps are disappearing, personally I was a fan of them. The new set of criteria for an area to have a spider map created is sadly much tighter I despise the new spider maps. Both the ones with the arrows saying ‘continues to West Croydon’ for example that only shows a tiny bit of the route, and the hideous geographically incorrect ones that they did for a lot of East London.
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Post by richard on May 23, 2021 22:12:43 GMT
Not sure what that driver was thinking but 🤣
Not my tweet
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 23, 2021 23:04:10 GMT
Not sure what that driver was thinking but 🤣 Not my tweet It looks to be an Arriva bus, not too sure what an Arriva Gemini 3 was doing in the Euston area which would result it getting into the Taxi rank. Arriva do obviously operate the 253, 73 and 59 there but they're all LT routes. The nearest other Gemini 3 Arriva routes would be the 2, 341 or 243 but I can't see why any of those would end up all the way at Euston. Even if the buses were dead running there's not much reason for them to take the left into the bus station. Certainly is interesting, probably a logical step of events followed by a single mistake which led to this
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Post by M1199 on May 23, 2021 23:48:27 GMT
How is it going to boost tourism, seems like a joke more than anything else. The artwork would be more at place in a public toilets. At the Crown & Treaty in Uxbridge Rather off topic, but the Crown & Treaty used to be quite a good pub back in the day! Spent many a Friday/Saturday night getting cained in there on Snakebites and getting slung out at 4am when they wanted to close! Then followed the stagger up to the High Street to catch the first U3 of the day home at 4:30. Happy Days!
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Post by richard on May 24, 2021 0:39:37 GMT
Not sure what that driver was thinking but 🤣 Not my tweet It looks to be an Arriva bus, not too sure what an Arriva Gemini 3 was doing in the Euston area which would result it getting into the Taxi rank. Arriva do obviously operate the 253, 73 and 59 there but they're all LT routes. The nearest other Gemini 3 Arriva routes would be the 2, 341 or 243 but I can't see why any of those would end up all the way at Euston. Even if the buses were dead running there's not much reason for them to take the left into the bus station. Certainly is interesting, probably a logical step of events followed by a single mistake which led to this It was doing the Northern line replacement Euston to Colindale.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 10:41:06 GMT
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 24, 2021 11:11:15 GMT
Seems that the overall intent is to strip the business down to a core before floating what's remaining, which should include UK bus and rail. The article is behind a paywall but is relatively easy to get around with a careful timed cancellation of the loading screen. It seems to mention First, Go Ahead and Stagecoach could all be in contention for mergers following substantial decreases in market capitalisation. Notably it mentions Souter and Gloag both reducing their Stagecoach stake to 5%, suggesting that both are interested in the companies merging then going private which would be interesting. It would however almost certainly go up against many competition laws.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 24, 2021 15:29:24 GMT
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Post by Green Kitten on May 24, 2021 16:22:18 GMT
It's a shame that the majority of spider maps are disappearing, personally I was a fan of them. The new set of criteria for an area to have a spider map created is sadly much tighter I despise the new spider maps. Both the ones with the arrows saying ‘continues to West Croydon’ for example that only shows a tiny bit of the route, and the hideous geographically incorrect ones that they did for a lot of East London. The Spider Maps were always nice to just look at whilst waiting for a bus. I knew where they went, but I just appreciate my maps. I also know a bad map when I see one. The old Citymapper and Google Maps probably just made them redundant. I didn't like the latest versions of the maps very much. Why not just display the full route. The markers without any labels got on my nerves. I did like having the bus stop letter codes shown within the route number box, that was a good addition.
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Post by Dillon95 on May 24, 2021 19:18:31 GMT
I despise the new spider maps. Both the ones with the arrows saying ‘continues to West Croydon’ for example that only shows a tiny bit of the route, and the hideous geographically incorrect ones that they did for a lot of East London. The Spider Maps were always nice to just look at whilst waiting for a bus. I knew where they went, but I just appreciate my maps. I also know a bad map when I see one. The old Citymapper and Google Maps probably just made them redundant. I didn't like the latest versions of the maps very much. Why not just display the full route. The markers without any labels got on my nerves. I did like having the bus stop letter codes shown within the route number box, that was a good addition. Yeah I love looking at spider maps when I’m waiting for a bus, and coming up with fantasy ways to improve the routes.
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Post by ronnie on May 24, 2021 20:56:24 GMT
Excellent. Greenwich and lewisham and tower hamlets - hope you do this next!
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Post by vjaska on May 24, 2021 21:05:21 GMT
Excellent. Greenwich and lewisham and tower hamlets - hope you do this next! No hope for Lambeth as the Ferndale Road one was shoved in despite increasing protests against it. The Railton Road & St Matthews Road ones are the ones I’d love to see gone as that would greatly improve the flow of east to west traffic
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Post by ronnie on May 24, 2021 23:49:27 GMT
Excellent. Greenwich and lewisham and tower hamlets - hope you do this next! No hope for Lambeth as the Ferndale Road one was shoved in despite increasing protests against it. The Railton Road & St Matthews Road ones are the ones I’d love to see gone as that would greatly improve the flow of east to west traffic I don’t mind well-planned ones but the ones currently are set in a way as if someone at tfl thought - “what’s the best way to force traffic onto already crowded roads and inconvenience people” Hope everyone enjoyed cycling this year in May
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