Taking a series of trains, buses and fun facts about them
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I really like cities that are best by bus. I love the Tube, but London buses are very familiar to me (mostly coz we’ve got similar buses and bus routes in Singapore / Hong Kong). For local travel I prefer buses, most places.
Buses don’t have to suck (they’re so good in places where they’re good!)
@skinnylatte I agree up to a point, especially for shorter distances. Long journeys are far faster by tube though.
And I agree about Singapore, I naturally tend to gravitate towards metro/undergound, but in Singapore I realised there are lots of places that are actually quicker and easier to get to by bus (it probably helped that there was a bus stop right outside the place we stayed at
). And Singapore buses have AC, which London ones are mostly lacking...
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I really like cities that are best by bus. I love the Tube, but London buses are very familiar to me (mostly coz we’ve got similar buses and bus routes in Singapore / Hong Kong). For local travel I prefer buses, most places.
Buses don’t have to suck (they’re so good in places where they’re good!)
@skinnylatte when I lived in London I would always tell visitors to use the buses, rather than the tube. It's the only way to connect the city, if you just teleport from tube station to tube station London ends up incomprehensible and fragmented.
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@timrichards @skinnylatte plus you’ve perfectly timed your visit for the infrequent depot open days https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/depot-open-days/icons-london
@staticnz @timrichards @skinnylatte the depot is fantastic and well worth the trip out. I was lucky enough to visit a couple of times circa 2009. So good.
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@skinnylatte I agree up to a point, especially for shorter distances. Long journeys are far faster by tube though.
And I agree about Singapore, I naturally tend to gravitate towards metro/undergound, but in Singapore I realised there are lots of places that are actually quicker and easier to get to by bus (it probably helped that there was a bus stop right outside the place we stayed at
). And Singapore buses have AC, which London ones are mostly lacking...
@mario @skinnylatte Singapore’s MRT is also mostly very deep underground, at least around the more central parts; it often took us ages to get down to the platform from ground level and back up the other end. (Especially as we had the kids with us.) So we reached the same conclusion about buses being more efficient for shorter distances. (3-4 MRT stops)
In London, it’s more of a mixed bag; the older cut-and-cover lines are super quick to hop on and off. -
14. Made it to London!
Thameslink train from Gatwick
@skinnylatte Welcome! *waves from south of the river*
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I really like cities that are best by bus. I love the Tube, but London buses are very familiar to me (mostly coz we’ve got similar buses and bus routes in Singapore / Hong Kong). For local travel I prefer buses, most places.
Buses don’t have to suck (they’re so good in places where they’re good!)
@skinnylatte It can be a hit of miss. I once took the bus from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow for pleasure and it took me 1.5 hours NOT to get there because I walked the last mile (bus stopped and waited to even out the time table for the third time).
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I really like cities that are best by bus. I love the Tube, but London buses are very familiar to me (mostly coz we’ve got similar buses and bus routes in Singapore / Hong Kong). For local travel I prefer buses, most places.
Buses don’t have to suck (they’re so good in places where they’re good!)
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@skinnylatte And it's a hybrid!
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@skinnylatte double decker buses are so much fun! Definitely a highlight of any London trip!
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@skinnylatte did you see the Toot Bus yet?
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@skinnylatte and you cannot lie?
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@skinnylatte and you cannot lie?
@MedeaVanamonde @skinnylatte Baby got efficient public transit.
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@skinnylatte yes love a big bus and wow I may have taken that line once or twice long ago. I miss London.
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@skinnylatte can u lie tho?
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