MIG wrote:

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.

I had a similar experience when collecting a package one Saturday morning a
few years ago. The information at the bus station is not very good at
aligning stop names to maps and I found that the bus route basically took me
the long way down a road only to come back up the other side and there was
no warning that the last stop on the peninsula was ages before the tunnel
with the result that I got taken through it. All I wanted to do was reach
the courier depot, a seemingly impossible task to do on foot either.