On 13 Feb, 23:59, Mizter T wrote:
On Feb 13, 8:53*pm, MIG wrote:





On 13 Feb, 14:30, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

"DOME" would look better on a roundel.

Or how about "BUS"?

The reason why the interchange is so heavily used is purely because
it's an interchange. *What choice do people really have? *With so many
bus routes diverted there, loads of bus journeys involve two sides of
a triangle, the apex of which is North Greenwich.

It's not that people actually want to be there. *I'm sure they'd take
a direct route if they could.

A point which rather overlooks the somewhat fundamental tube-bus
interchange element...


But it's only that because they diverted all the bus routes there, or
else it wouldn't be. No doubt there are physical reasons why they
couldn't divert all the routes to another train/Underground hub in
quite the same way.

I'm not saying that there's anything fundamentally wrong with a pure
transport interchange, just that I think it's been overdone to the
neglect of actual places.

When I bought a rather heavy item in the retail park at the south end
of the Greenwich peninsula, the only way I could get a bus towards
Blackheath and beyond* was by getting a bus north to North Greenwich
and then another one south again at a different angle. You'd think
that a major retail/cinema park in the Greenwich penininsula would
have buses towards Greenwich, Blackheath etc, but it didn't at the
time. Only to the accursed North Greenwich or Woolwich.

Looking at the latest maps, the 108 route may have been diverted
favourably, but the experience has tarnished the setup for me.


*Wish I could remember what I was doing. I think I got a 54 to
somewhere, hoiking a lump of cast iron on and off three buses in the
end.