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Commuting to Canary Wharf - advice sought
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, congokid wrote:
In article , " writes . I can't understand why there's not a lot more river transport in London. Seems the perfect way of getting around. There used to be a river bus service, and it was slow, uncomfortable and expensive. It appears the current riverboat service could get me from very near where I live to very near where I used to work (Blackfriars) in about 25 minutes, which certainly beats the bus and tube, but I can't find any timetables or fares online. What I can find suggests that services are very infrequent. Not in he http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1131.aspx http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresa...ares/4891.aspx ? The useful ferry services, IME, generally only run 3 or 4 services each way a day, in the peaks. Good for commuting, no use for anything else. tom -- Finals make a man mean; let's fusc up and write! |
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Commuting to Canary Wharf - advice sought
Tom Anderson writes:
Interesting point. I've never heard serious consideration given to doing this - i wonder why not? Is there nowhere else to send the buses? Is there too much demand for destinations along or near the ends of Oxford Street? Has it just not occurred to anyone? I find it hard to believe that anyone would knowingly choose to travel the length of Oxford St on a bus unless they had oodles of free time or had some infirmity preventing then from walking. Or if the weather was really awful, perhaps. And by extension, I at least am very reticent to catch a bus that even *enters* Oxford St unless I know at which six of the seventy-three billion bus stops it will actually open its doors, because there's nothng worse than being stopped in traffic at the wrong bus stop for five minutes when it's only a couple of hundred metres to the right bus stop. That said, the streets to the immediate north and south are a mess of one-way systems and there's not really a good "through route" that's both parallel and close unless you're a pedestrian. |
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Commuting to Canary Wharf - advice sought
On Jan 26, 5:01*pm, congokid wrote:
In article , " writes . I can't understand why there's not a lot more river transport in London. Seems the perfect way of getting around. There used to be a river bus service, and it was slow, uncomfortable and expensive. It appears the current riverboat service could get me from very near where I live to very near where I used to work (Blackfriars) in about 25 minutes, which certainly beats the bus and tube, but I can't find any timetables or fares online. What I can find suggests that services are very infrequent. -- congokid Eating out in London? Read my tips...http://congokid.com See www.thamesclippers.com Timetable looks pretty frequent and reasonably fast to me, though depends of course where you want to go. e.g. Embankment to C Wharf in 30 mins, Blackfriars to C Wharf in 20 mins. Services every 20 mins at peak. Could always be improved but must be useful to many. |
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Commuting to Canary Wharf - advice sought
In article , Tom
Anderson writes On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, congokid wrote: I can't find any timetables or fares online. What I can find suggests that services are very infrequent. Not in he http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1131.aspx http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresa...ares/4891.aspx Thanks, Tom - I spent about 15 unfruitful minutes on the site trying to find these! The peak commuter times look OK, as does the journey length, but I think GBP49.50 for 10 journeys between Chelsea and Blackfriars is expensive. What I found uncomfortable about the river bus service, when it existed, was the almost hermetically sealed seating deck, with no windows to open, no outside deck area, and very little room to store bags or other luggage such as folding bikes. Another route that would have been useful to me at one time was Chelsea to Canary Wharf, but that doesn't seem to be possible at present entirely by river. I must take a look at Chelsea Harbour Pier some morning to see if anyone actually uses it. The gangway looks permanently locked up at other times. -- congokid Eating out in London? Read my tips... http://congokid.com |
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