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
And in May all you Nathan Barley types can come down to Crystal Palace and get yr heads duffed in.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Mayor of London fails to invite Mayor of Hackney to opening do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqmJUFVi1A
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
This would be a lot more useful if it tied in with a single big City station... although maybe the novelty is that it doesn't.
Selfishly, I'd get a lot more use out of a route from Hackney Central to NW London that didn't divert through bloody Stamford Hill or Fins Park...
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(A bus, that is.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
More bus routes from NE London to N/NW London in general would be nice. I usually end up having to go into the centre somewhere and then back out again, like on the tube. I'm really talking about nightbuses tbh, I just get the tube most of the time if it's running.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
That's what the Overground's for, surely. Shame it's not running until 2011, or so I've heard.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Overground closes not much later than the tube though. And is mostly only just outside the centre anyway
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Shoreditch station is close enough to the City really, it's only a 5min walk to Liverpool street.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://bnb.bpweb.net/londonoverground/
This will be amazing when it's finally functioning.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Would be very impressed if someone could now make a map with the Tube inside the concentric circles of the Overground, adhering to the 45deg angles of the Beck design.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 11:02 (fourteen years ago) link