On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:43:51 +0100, Peter Boulding
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>On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:37:36 -0500, msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mark Brader) wrote in
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>>Avoid taking the tube for short distances unless you're tired or want
>>to get out of the weather. You see more by walking and it may even be
>>quicker.
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>Good advice. The tube map is not positionally accurate and if you rely on
it
>exclusively you can find that you spent half an hour on escalators,
>platforms and train in order to complete a journey that would have taken
>five minutes on foot.
The canonical example being Bank to Mansion House or Cannon Street. To
get from one to the other you have to take two lines and go through
four- five stations between them. But as you can see from
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=london&ie=UTF8&ll=51.512021,-0.091023&spn=0.00669,0.014312&t=h&z=16
they're just a couple of blocks apart.
The official tube map:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/Standard-Tube-map.gif
Also note that the London Underground ^H^H Trans****t for London would
have you believe Bank and Monument to be one station though Monument
is actually further from Bank than Cannon Street is (they're linked
via escalators and walkways, though the current map won't tell you
that they're currently OOO due to renovations).
http://solo2.abac.com/themole//geo_tubemap.gif
is a "geographically
accurate" tube map.
--
Bill in Vancouver
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