London Banter - View Single Post - Planned engineering work between Acton Town and Hammersmith this weekend

[email protected] · January 6th 13, 08:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article
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(Recliner) wrote:

wrote:
I find the choice of this weekend to block the route from Heathrow
to central London particularly inconsiderate to passengers. I'm
sure this is one of the busier weekends at Heathrow with people on
Christmas and New Year breaks returning. There were a lot of people
with luggage everywhere.

I flew off on a holiday on 27th December with no mention of the
works and got back this evening recommended to change at Acton Town
and Ealing Broadway to reach King's Cross via the Central Line and
Oxford Circus. TfL's Journey Planner suggested a journey time of 1
hour 20 minutes, not too bad.

Obviously a bad journey home, for which I sympathasise. I wonder, however,
if you checked the TfL Journey Planner for the homeward journey before
departing? I always do, especially if I hope to travel over a weekend,
especially over the Xmas/new year period.

It didn't occur to me that TfL would choose the returning to work weekend.

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Colin Rosenstiel