Heaven and Hell experience today - perhaps typical of London.
This morning - Hell - Roads snarled up and Vauxhall bus garage eventually completely shut and r because of an accident on the Albert Embankment. 70 minutes to travel by bus from Vauxhall to Westminster Abbey (approx 15 minutes walk/10 minute bus journey usuall). Do the police really need to delay hundreds of people over one accident?
This evening - Heaven - home in half an hour or less from stepping out of the Anoushka Shankar concert at Sadlers Wells via the Northern and Victoria lines.
― Bob Six, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe there's a very smelly man who just rides the 38 all day every day.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i was riding the 38 the other day, and then a man came in and he said he wanted hackney. he was a smelly man. driver did not like him. driver said 'we didn't go to any hackney' .. and then the man just went!
― I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
omg omg I finally got to ride on a new Victoria Line train. it was clean! it was spacious! the Train Lady Voice told me which side of the train the doors were going to open at the next stop!
― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Friday, 29 January 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
wait what
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 29 January 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hang on wtf is going down out there
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a file under the railway arches at Rotherhithe according to the TFL site, and it appears to have completely wrecked all the London Bridge services.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait hold on there aren't any railway arches in Rotherhithe. I suppose they must mean somewhere in Bermondsey. But I'm looking at the area right now and I can't see a fire. Maybe it's small, or extinguished. Or maybe something else is going on.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link
South Bermondsey, arch by Debnams Road.
― ned ragĂș (suzy), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently SE London has been cut off, which will really facilitate the journey in I was planning on taking now
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I got in fine from Forest Hill this morning but I think I was lucky to get on the one non-cancelled train in the space of half an hour.
The DLR also appears to be closed at Lewisham now. Very strange.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Perhaps they should just give us an official South East London-only bank holiday every time there is a big fire in Bermondsey (ie about once every six months).
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
IT'S LOCKDOWN
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
commence bio-seeding procedure
http://blackheathbugle.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/no-trains-no-dlr-every-bus-is-full/
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I got in fine from Forest Hill this morning
Matt has a GURLFRIEND ew
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
No obvious smoke rising around Debnam Road right now, which I suppose is good news.
No obvious trains running either. On the jubilee Line thhis morning they were saying that Southern are only running Victoria services, maybe you can find your way to a station which serves Victoria Louis?
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh and around Canary Wharf the DLR is fine.
Victoria doesn't do me a great deal of good OH LOL I just looked out of the window and it's TRAFFIC CARNAGE hahahahaha
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
(At least, I can see the DLR trains moving.)
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone got a helicopter?
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
My fucking course director has told me I have to come in because 'the tubes are fine'. Really appreciate your assumption that the Tube is ubiquitous within Greater London
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link
DLR is running South of Canary Wharf; Jubilee is fine; boats seem to be mooching quite happily up and down the river.
I dunno where you are, LJ.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Am in Lee Green so basically fucked over x10 by this shambles
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 the mental bus drivers cramming every last person on this morning. wing mirrors? fuck 'em!
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7557/71124849.jpg
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
In the hour you've spent on your computer you could have walked to North Greenwich, heh.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^be quiet
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Or Lewisham, if you prefer.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I've heard the DLR is pretty much in lockdown as well for some reason or other, but I'm about to give it a shot.
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Trains are on the move between Canary Wharf and the City, that much I can tell you.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
(DLR robotrains obv)
Gipsy Hill-London Bridge wasn't too bad but no onward connections to Char X whatsoever. Took Jubilee Line (let one train go; very squashy but kinda standard for a.m. rush-hour) to Waterloo, walked over bridge (didn't pay for Tube trip - just flashed my rail ticket at the barrier guard). Could've gone on to Green Park for a quicker walk to the office but that might've been stretching the definition of "acceptable alternative route" and I didn't want an argument.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
But, yeah, about 45min late.
the DLR was working really rather well - so well I'd almost but not quite consider implementing it into my regular journey
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Where do you have to get to? The Bank line takes way longer to get you into zone 1 than the trains do.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
lee -> angel islington
usual route -> london bridge -> angel islington
this route -> lewisham -> bank -> angel islington
way longer but kinda groovy - I totally sat at the front ^_^
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
East London Line is now running between Dalston Junction and New Cross/New Cross Gate.
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
might try it on my way home later if not too packed
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else seen how many 'new Routemasters' Boris is planning to replace London's 83 bendy buses with?
Five...
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hackney podcast all about buses -
http://hackneypodcast.co.uk/2010/02/edition-17-buses/
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Getting any bus at all up Kingsland Road is pretty much the worst public transport experience you can have in London so I am overjoyed about this.
Any line running from New Cross to Dalston via Shoreditch is going to reach hipster critical mass very soon.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It basically puts my best friend on tap. Capital work, London
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Getting any bus at all up Kingsland Road is pretty much the worst public transport experience you can have in London
this is a nonsense, as there are so many buses. only had one horrendous experience with it since i moved back to Hackney borough.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The number of buses isn't the issue, it's the appalling traffic and the inevitable bottleneck. I don't think I've ever got a bus up Kingsland Road that hasn't slowed to a crawl not long after the Geffrye Museum.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I do it every day and that's a pretty rare occurrence
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i have always maintained that the worst public transport experience you can have in London is taking the No. 30 anywhere
i have never even attempted taking a bus up the Kingsland Road because i bike up it in MY FIXIE of course*
*i do not have a fixie
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
This line is good for me. I was touting this as the hipster line at the weekend. It's not running at the weekends till later on in May though says Tfl.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't even know what a fixie is
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually have ridden up kingsland road on a fixie.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link