Daily Mail tube map

[ChrisCooper]

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Interesting version of the Tube Map, as the Daily Mail's Moral Underground. Some of the stations are so funny, particularly the South West of the Cancer Line (immigrant cancer, french cancer, fox cancer, BBC cancer). Don't know if Bow Church was an accident, or if the Mail consider it a nuisance.

 

[WestCoast]

100% true, yes the South-West branch is the best! "Immigrant Cancer"

Notice that Bow Church is an interchange with "Stabbings"

 

[SS4]

I like the way Americans are both femails and arch-enemies

if anyone is interested here is the PDF version

 

[43021HST]

very good, takes quite a bit of looking at before you it.

 

[185]

Unsurprisingly Elton John and Gay Bishops have disabled access, and the branch line to Evil operates peak hours only.

 

[Ivo]

Do they consider Tower Gateway to be an example of a nuisance or PC Gone Mad as well?

 

[kentuckytony]

Favorites are Scones, Bendy Buses, and Helen Mirren - and I don't know why!

 

[Ivo]

Bendy buses are nuisances

One of the few things the Daily Fail have gotten right during the last squillion years.

 

[WestCoast]

Bendy buses are nuisances

One of the few things the Daily Fail have gotten right during the last squillion years.

They made Bendy Buses out to be root of evil and the direct source of all London's congestion problems.:roll:

Meanwhile they don't mention pacers because they operate in the dark and forbidden lands beyond London and the Home Counties.

 

[moonrakerz]

Why aren't tfl's lawyers onto this one ? - they were quick enough with the absolutely brilliant anagram map.

 

[SS4]

Imagine the headline

TFL CLAMPDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

 

[rail-britain]

Daily Mail - the newspaper of doom and gloom

 

[Ivo]

Tyrant Line, anyone?

 

[Railjet]

Bendy buses are nuisances

One of the few things the Daily Fail have gotten right during the last squillion years.

Not having been on one of these in London, I'm a bit baffled by this.

Can someone tell me why they are so reviled in London, when they are (in my experience) such an efficient and convenient transport mode in many cities on the Continent?

 

[jon0844]

Wider roads, less traffic, less illegal parking, better road design? Dare I even say it; better drivers?

You are right, bendy buses do work in many places. In fact, they'd probably work fine in many cities in the UK too - but in London they were a nightmare for so many reasons.

Best intentions are one thing, but they regularly clipped kerbs (many times when I was on one), allowed people to travel without paying, didn't actually make it very much easier for people to get on or off, didn't have many more seats (if any more at all) and they weren't much more accessible than a double decker with a ramp and area for a wheelchair. Mind you, they regularly got filled with buggies, making it even harder to move around.

I am pretty sure they weren't well liked by cyclists either, of which there are many in London (and loads more with the Boris Bikes).

They won't be scrapped; they'll be moved and cascaded to elsewhere in the UK.

 

[me123]

Typical London attitude; it's not good enough for us, so give it to some lesser city...

 

[Mojo]

Other cities don't have to accept them...

Another issue is them blocking pedestrian crossings. I often have trouble crossing streets because they are blocking crossings. In my experience other places aren't so pedestrian friendly, for example many cities have banned crossing on red lights.

 

[Tom B]

Other cities don't have to accept them...

Another issue is them blocking pedestrian crossings. I often have trouble crossing streets because they are blocking crossings. In my experience other places aren't so pedestrian friendly, for example many cities have banned crossing on red lights.

That's not a problem with the buses, but a problem with the drivers!

 

[Mojo]

If the vehicle operators didn't do that, then they'd never move anywhere as something else would end up in front or they'd have to wait for several cycles of the lights.

 

[jon0844]

Typical London attitude; it's not good enough for us, so give it to some lesser city...

??

There's nothing wrong with bendy buses, but they have to be used in the most appropriate places. Central London wasn't. Perhaps there are suburbs where they'd be just fine, as well as parts of the country where there's a bit more space.

I've been on bendy buses in Sweden many times and they're fine, as well as at airports. So, no need to consider them as being castoffs. They just didn't work in London.

Revenue collection is an issue though! They rarely do checks on London buses, so I doubt very much there would be many checks in other locations.

 

[SS4]

As I understand it they're not suitable in many places due to their length? The 67 is the only bendy bus in Birmingham AFAIK and that sticks mainly to A roads until Castle Vale by which stage it's essentially at the end of it's journey

 

[Ivo]

Bendy buses don't work here either. Our roads aren't wide enough to cope with them, and most of Bath's drivers are foreign and don't seem to know the speed limit! Not to mention the extremely marginal roads they are used on (Lower Oldfield Park and my Uni driveway being the main examples, but also the steep hill to the larger Uni).