as much as i'm down with the message, these horrible mascots really piss me off
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/together-for-london-RHbanner.gif
should've drafted in natalie dee
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I want to hunt and kill the staff of TFL today. I got a £20 fine last night because the station I was going to didn't have a fucking Oyster reader, unlike every other station before it. I have zone 1-3 card but this was 1 bastard stop into zone 4. Just my fucking luck etc.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
figure on the left is based on blueski, surely?
― DG, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^xkcd dude could have spoke to the children with these drawings. And then said something funny about wireless routing.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
something about the faces is really patronising. i guess the whole campaign is really.
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
The cinema advert is horrid, and lasts about four hours.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a £20 fine last night because the station I was going to didn't have a fucking Oyster reader
Can you get it back? That's really their fault surely.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
They nabbed about 4 other people saying the same thing as me, and basically said tough shit it was your responsibility to check before you travelled, so probably not. I'm going to appeal though, cos it's bollocks really.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Which station, out of interest? I didn't think there were many without these days.
― Bocken Social Scene, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Wood Street. Apparently the Oyster readers stop at Walthamstow Central, where I usually get off, but I had to go to the doctors, so I went on 1 more stop. Honestly didn't know it was in zone 4, but I have prepay on my Oyster anyway so tend not to worry about such things normally.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah that is absolute bullshit.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you're all cynical bastards and that the adverts are quite cute. I don't have to stare at them every day though, so I guess the annoyingness doesn't quite seep into me.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
they remind me of Love Is... urgh
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Useless revenue protection staff - it's not that there isn't an Oyster reader at that station, it's that Pre-pay on NR is far from prefect, and is only valid as far as Walthamstow Central.
It's a complete mess, I found this map the other day which is useful in seeing where Pre-Pay is and isn't valid on National Rail (almost used overground there, which leads to more confusion, ie the 'overground train' in colloquial use, and the London Overground which is the North London Line and other ex-Silverlink Metro services - this has its own set of Pre-Pay anomalies too!). They should either introduce total Z1-6 Pre-pay fares on NR, or none at all. Having bits of lines here and there is just stupid.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/tickets/oyster-PAYG-08-01-02.pdf
― Bocken Social Scene, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
That's lousy, Colonel. Surely the point of penalty fares is to nab people who were trying to dodge the fare. What is wrong with just getting you to pay the extra station? (rhetorical question)
Thanks for the map, Bocken. I'm baffled as to why I'm not allowed to use PAYG at my station, Hornsey, on the line north of Finsbury Park, but can use it for stations south of FP on precisely the same line...
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
In truth CP probably ought to have swotted up on his zones beforehand but then we have to remember that the point of penalty fares is to raise revenue for the Olympics Transport for London.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Those fascists that march through the carriages in gangs of four with their big bastard coats on are worse than fucking muggers, bouncers and traffic wardens put together. They contribute nothing good to the world.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
There were about 10 cops standing around at Walthamstow Central when I finally got home just doing fuck all, why weren't they out catching real criminals, eh, eh?
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Everytime I go through there now I expect to be stop & searched.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Choob STRIKE
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link
because of what madonna said?
― Ste, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"This dispute boils down to properly trained Tube staff wanting to post lolcats instead of working."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I blame Mackenzie Crook
― Tom D., Friday, 28 March 2008 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL this is me RIGHT NOW.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 28 March 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay this is way cool:
http://onabus.com/
― Neil S, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
That is cool. Acknowledges a big gap on the TfL site.
It'd be cooler if:
a)they had a cross-referenced index of all the buses and all the stops, so if I want to get to, say holloway road, I don't need to go to journey planner first.
b)I had an iphone or whatever; it's obviously aimed at mobile internet users "on a bus".
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 28 November 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Or if you could compare more than one route at the same time.
― Neil S, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link
what's it meant to do? nothing's happening...
― the next grozart, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
One or two people at work have had the same problem. It displays a Google map plotting the bus route in question in a useful kind of way.
― Neil S, Friday, 28 November 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Except it doesn't work on two mobile phones I just tried it on. I'm calling useless.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Friday, 28 November 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
wow that is awesome. i bet it definitely works on an iPhone..
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 November 2008 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm, it thought a 73 went from Upminster to Tilbury
― Ed, Friday, 28 November 2008 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
it's obviously aimed at mobile internet users "on a bus".
i.e. "onabus.com"
Doesn't work on a Blackberry either, you just get a list of bus stops which can surely be of no real use to anyone.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Friday, 28 November 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I was hoping the photos would be view from the top deck
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Friday, 28 November 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I checked the 73 route, that's a funny one! x-post
― Neil S, Friday, 28 November 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
next step from that being videos of journeys end to end xp
It thought a C11 was some sort of coach service from Kent too, but there's a list of other routes below the stops list. Not ideal.
― bocken (j.o.n.a), Friday, 28 November 2008 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I noticed google maps now has a thing where it shows locations of photos (presumably in picasa?) and wikipedia pages on the maps now.
― bocken (j.o.n.a), Friday, 28 November 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
No photos/Google maps coming up on my view either EPIC FAIL
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 28 November 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm obviously very Beta at the moment.
― Neil S, Friday, 28 November 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't work on my PC either
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 28 November 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ok works on firefox
should tell you where you can change to other buses
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 28 November 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Basically onthebus.com reveals exactly why they invented spider maps.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 November 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
and asks the question why they invented the W7 bus routehttp://onabus.com/?route=w7
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 28 November 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, I never quite worked out the rationale behind that one.
The really inexplicable one is the bus which goes from the top of Barnet to the bottom of Barnet and back again but I can't remember its number.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 28 November 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
W7 useful for getting to tube black hole Muswell Hill from that other tube black hole Stoke Newington.
― Neil S, Friday, 28 November 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Every time I'm in Stoke Newington every bus seems to go nowhere except Edmonton. What's the attraction?
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 28 November 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.onroutebus.com/wp-content/themes/onroute-theme/images/fp91.jpg
http://www.onroutebus.co.uk
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
transport in London the UK is shit
― Bob Six, Friday, 20 February 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link