Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who
goes to North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:12:07 +0000, Basil Jet wrote:

Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to
North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

Yup. Loads and loads of buses go from there to outside the tube station
to Woolwich, Blackheath, Charlton, Plumstead....I regularly get the tube
from Canary Wharf to Stratford, and the tube empties substantially at
North Greenwich, regardless of events at the O2....

On Feb 13, 9:04*am, Martin Petrov
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:12:07 +0000, Basil Jet wrote:

Zen83237 wrote:
Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to
North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

Yup. Loads and loads of buses go from there to outside the tube station
to Woolwich, Blackheath, Charlton, Plumstead....I regularly get the tube
from Canary Wharf to Stratford, and the tube empties substantially at
North Greenwich, regardless of events at the O2....

Agreed. It's a very significant bus hub. The total number of entries
and exits for North Greenwich in 2008 was 17.76 million.

See the LU customer metrics mini-site he
http://tinyurl.com/LU-customer-metrics

I wonder whether there'll be a bit of a shift towards people using
Southeastern's "Metro" mainline services in those parts of SE London
now than Oyster PAYG is accepted.

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

Mizter T wrote:

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

"DOME" would look better on a roundel.

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On 13 Feb, 14:30, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Mizter T wrote:

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

"DOME" would look better on a roundel.

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We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.

Or how about "BUS"?

The reason why the interchange is so heavily used is purely because
it's an interchange. What choice do people really have? With so many
bus routes diverted there, loads of bus journeys involve two sides of
a triangle, the apex of which is North Greenwich.

It's not that people actually want to be there. I'm sure they'd take
a direct route if they could.

On Feb 13, 8:53*pm, MIG wrote:

On 13 Feb, 14:30, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

"DOME" would look better on a roundel.

Or how about "BUS"?

The reason why the interchange is so heavily used is purely because
it's an interchange. *What choice do people really have? *With so many
bus routes diverted there, loads of bus journeys involve two sides of
a triangle, the apex of which is North Greenwich.

It's not that people actually want to be there. *I'm sure they'd take
a direct route if they could.

A point which rather overlooks the somewhat fundamental tube-bus
interchange element...

On 13 Feb, 23:59, Mizter T wrote:
On Feb 13, 8:53*pm, MIG wrote:





On 13 Feb, 14:30, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

"DOME" would look better on a roundel.

Or how about "BUS"?

The reason why the interchange is so heavily used is purely because
it's an interchange. *What choice do people really have? *With so many
bus routes diverted there, loads of bus journeys involve two sides of
a triangle, the apex of which is North Greenwich.

It's not that people actually want to be there. *I'm sure they'd take
a direct route if they could.

A point which rather overlooks the somewhat fundamental tube-bus
interchange element...


But it's only that because they diverted all the bus routes there, or
else it wouldn't be. No doubt there are physical reasons why they
couldn't divert all the routes to another train/Underground hub in
quite the same way.

I'm not saying that there's anything fundamentally wrong with a pure
transport interchange, just that I think it's been overdone to the
neglect of actual places.

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.

Looking at the latest maps, the 108 route may have been diverted
favourably, but the experience has tarnished the setup for me.


*Wish I could remember what I was doing. I think I got a 54 to
somewhere, hoiking a lump of cast iron on and off three buses in the
end.

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.