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(for very sad, bored people only!) What's the furthest you can get on a TfL bus pass?

Crispy said:
:confused: It's always gone Liverpool St, Finsbury Circus, Moorgate, London Bridge etc.
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Nope. :p It used to start its journey at Finsbury Circus before they created all those bus stops next to Liverpool Street station

I know. I used to get it home every night
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I thought it was about distance and not time. If you want to maximize changes and journey times just find the furthest two bus stops and get off at every stop and change to another bus on the way between them. You could keep that up for weeks.
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That was why I specified the TfL journey planner must be used.

TfL journey planner doesn't give distances, only times (makes sense I suppose)
 
I am amazed that Dorking is in the TfL zone.

Anyway, I can beat that: Swanley Rail Station to Beaconsfield (Saracen's Head) in 8h 39m. Although for some reason, though I put that I wanted to leave around 1pm tomorrow, the bus goes from Swanley at 23:11 and then there's a four hour wait in Acton Marketplace in the small hours. And it's in fact only 5 buses, so I'm not sure it counts.
 
Oswaldtwistle said:
Yes, It's a shame there is no direct equivlant of the TfL bus pass elsewhere. Outside the M25 it's all different bus companies and different tickets and you have to know the name of the stop you want and have change and all that crap.
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Tell me about it! :mad:

I just moved to Oxford - it's £6 for a day-pass for all the companies, £4.50 for just the one. :eek:

Journey times are ridiculous too. Eight miles, from one major population centre to another, takes up to an hour and a half, by any of the three available routes. And the destination is a major hospital, so it's hardly a low priority.

Londoners have no idea what real public transport is like, you lucky lucky bastards.
 
ymu said:
Tell me about it! :mad:

I just moved to Oxford - it's £6 for a day-pass for all the companies, £4.50 for just the one. :eek:

Journey times are ridiculous too. Eight miles, from one major population centre to another, takes up to an hour and a half, by any of the three available routes. And the destination is a major hospital, so it's hardly a low priority.

Londoners have no idea what real public transport is like, you lucky lucky bastards.
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This, basically. The problem isn't that public transport in the sticks isn't as good as London. Expecting that would just be silly. It's that even in large urban areas PT is nowhere near as good as in London. And, perhaps because of the petty rivralies between the companies, there is nothing done, in terms of Oyster or real time running information, to make life easier for PT users.


Too many bus companies are content just to be a 'distress' option for those who are too old, too young or too poor to drive. :( :mad:
 
Oswaldtwistle said:
real time running information
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We do actually have that on some stops and it's great. The main problem in Oxford is that all the buses run into the centre of town, and then stop. All the buses from one side of town stop on that side of town, all the buses from the other side stop there. So you have a few minutes walk and then a wait to catch the next bus. There don't seem to be many routes that use the ring road to connect the surrounding areas directly.

There's loads of industry outside the city and all the hospitals are located on the outskirts of town, which is also where all the affordable housing is. But we have to go via the centre of town to get from one to the other, and pay more to use the fastest possible bus routes. :mad:
 
ymu said:
We do actually have that on some stops and it's great.
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A couple of Derby stops have timers to the next bus, but they are just glorified clocks, ie. they just tell you when a bus is due.


The main problem in Oxford is that all the buses run into the centre of town, and then stop. All the buses from one side of town stop on that side of town, all the buses from the other side stop there. So you have a few minutes walk and then a wait to catch the next bus. There don't seem to be many routes that use the ring road to connect the surrounding areas directly.

There's loads of industry outside the city and all the hospitals are located on the outskirts of town, which is also where all the affordable housing is. But we have to go via the centre of town to get from one to the other, and pay more to use the fastest possible bus routes. :mad:
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All this sounds very familiar. And Oxford has a large Green presence on the council. If they can't get it right, what hope for the rest of us?
 
They're so fucking proud that there's a bus going down the Banbury Road every 2 minutes, they don't seem to notice that they're nearly always empty. The quickest way for me to get to work is to drive to thepark & ride nearest work and get the bus from there - but I can't even use this ridiculous option because that park & ride carpark gets full early because it's far too small to cope with the demand caused by a lack of proper local bus services...

Hopeless.
 
Beaconsfield can't count, that's outside the TfL area!

I am thinking that something like harefield Hospital to Biggin Hill might be a contender.
 
I calculated how to get from Commercial Road to Earlsfield the other day, for a very good reason, and it's 6 (SIX) buses at 1hr 56mins or something.
 
Well the 84 goes to St Albans from North London - believed to be one of the oldest "country" red buses (not sure if this counts)


Still havent got round to riding on it to my shame !
 
Crispy said:
Well he seems to be doing a handful of routes each weekend, so it'll take him 2 years or so to do all 500.
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Hello there. I'm the one doing routes 1 to 499. The plan is to finish before the Olympics but weekends are the one time I won't be doing them. I've done 14 in 14 days so far so am ahead of schedule :)
 
hoverdonkey said:
Hello there. I'm the one doing routes 1 to 499. The plan is to finish before the Olympics but weekends are the one time I won't be doing them. I've done 14 in 14 days so far so am ahead of schedule :)
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Awesome. Are you doing them in order? I can't work it out from your blog. Although you seem to have started on the number 1.
 
skyscraper101 said:
Awesome. Are you doing them in order? I can't work it out from your blog. Although you seem to have started on the number 1.
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I started at No 1, but it would be utterly impractical to do them in order. I would spend twice as long getting to the next route as I would spend on the route itself. I'm a masochist, but I have limits :)
 
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