On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:54:42 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
.. .

Much of this was also covered in a superb Berlin
Atlas that shows all the transport routes overlaid
on a very clear street atlas complete with schematic
diagrams and frequency guides for every bus,
tram and U Bahn line. First and last times are
included together with times between every stop
and what routes you can interchange to at each
stop. Their stop specific information is also a model
of clarity. Please can we have this for London !!!!!!

Have you considered how large it would be? Berlin is a tiny city by
comparison with London, and yet the Berlin atlas is too large already.

fair point John but I feel that we need much better quality and detailed
information in London. The dumbed down approach of TfL is something I
strongly dislike.

If push came to shove you could produce a more than adequate Berlin
Atlas style book that matched the current quadrant London bus maps. The
current local guides with their lack of maps and provision of spider
diagrams that can still completely miss whole routes within an area [1]
are not very good at all.

[1] the Walthamstow guide does not show the 123 - a main trunk route -
because none of the spider maps are located at a place served by the
route. This is lunacy given that it is the main way, with a change of
bus, to get from Walthamstow to places like Gants Hill and Ilford.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!