On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:04:26 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

Oh no, it's much easier! As a young adult, I lived in Paris before I
lived in London, and had enormous difficulty working out how the London
system worked, compared to the extraordinarily easy Paris system, which
labels by terminus. Doesn't help that I have enormous difficulty
knowing my left from my right, or my east from my west.... I can just
about manage north and south, but that's it!

I must say I've always wondered why the Circle Line isn't labelled as
"Circle Line Clockwise" and "Circle Line Anticlockwise", as working it
out with the "via" points can take some time if you're not too
familiar with it, whereas you can see clockwise/anticlockwise on the
Tube map very easily.

Neil

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"Neil Williams" wrote in message
...
I must say I've always wondered why the Circle Line isn't labelled as
"Circle Line Clockwise" and "Circle Line Anticlockwise"

I wonder if it's because most of it is shared either with the H & C+Met or
with the District and it's felt less cumbersome to allow the
eastbound/westbound of the "proper" lines to define the direction rather
than have two sets of direction descriptors for in some cases the same
journey options?
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gordon

While we're on the subject, does LU still think that the Metropolitan Line
runs north-south instead of east-west?

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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

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While we're on the subject, does LU still think that the Metropolitan Line
runs north-south instead of east-west?

Yes, if you take my most recent trip to Preston Road as an example.

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