On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Paul Terry wrote:

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Tom Anderson writes

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Paul Terry wrote:

Two sets of friends in North Yorks ("one bus a week on Thursdays")
still cannot get over the fact that despite being 8 miles from the
centre of London, we have buses every 3 minutes in the peak, every 5
minutes off-peak, and night buses stopping within short walking
distance every 10 minutes throughout the night.

Okay, now that's impressive; i take it there are three routes, each coming
every half-hour?

Yes.

You must live in a fairly significant suburban centre.

I live in a London borough that I think claims a higher proportion of
open space than any other (Richmond).

Even Waltham Forest? How about one of those godforsaken Metropolitan Kent
places?

Anyway, i take it you live within short walking distance of one of the
town centres in Richmond.

Thinking about it a bit more, perhaps three routes isn't as exceptional as
i'd thought. There were four to where i lived in Hackney, and there are at
least three to Holloway - the problem is that only one or two were ever
any use to me, but that's due to the fairly narrow range of places i
needed to get home from late at night!

tom

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