Bill Kinkaid wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:43:51 +0100, Peter Boulding
> <pjb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:37:36 -0500, msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mark Brader) wrote
>> in <Xo-dnXgZuvhNL2PanZ2dnUVZ_u2mnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
First rate advice for the unwary. The other useful tip is to watch out for
seasoned travellers who know how to nip down a 'no entry' passage to make
a
shortcut to their platform
>
> http://solo2.abac.com/themole//geo_tubemap.gif
is a "geographically
> accurate" tube map.
And you can walk around with one in your pocket:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Out-Tube-Map/dp/1899743014
(I got my copy from Stanfords, excellent travel shop hard by Covent
Garden.)
As well as a geographically accurate map, it shows which carriages stop
nearest the various exits and interchanges so you can sidle along the
platform at your starting station to be opposite the carriage which, at
your
destination, will deposit you at the foot of the stairs marked 'Exit'.
My print is from 2001 and I don't think it's been updated so there may be
inaccuracies, but it's never let me down yet.
--
John Dean
Oxford
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