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7am update: the new tube map is not yet available online. Paper copies can already be found at certain tube stations, but not others.

Strictly speaking it isn't a cable car (or cablecar) at all as the pods aren't rigidly fixed to the cables. It is a gondola lift but that is not so snappy and exciting sounding is it ?

I'm really hoping it's going to appear on all the 'Good Service' boards at tube stations.

"ArabFly Dangleway" sounds wonderful. I think you should register this name immediately.

Popartist you beat me to it, so I'll just reiterate. "ArabFly Dangleway" -excellent, keep up the good work.

I dislike what they have done to the map but I do like the cover art. Maybe one to collect but not open.

It feels like Arsenal are taking over, they were sponsored by O2 and now of course they play at Emirates.

I agree Sarah. I support the Arsenal and have to check myself when saying I'm going to the Emirates. No, not to a place thousands of miles away, I'm going to London N5. Still wish it was called Highbury as it is only 800 yards away from the old ground but all my friends say that I live in the past. I think they are right!

Emirates Royal Docks ???
Does HRH know about this?

The more I read here, the more I notice that the British really do hate change. If it's not Routemaster buses, or cycle paths, it's some long forgotten tradition you are pining for. No wonder that most of your companies/major football teams are in foreign ownership.

11:30am update: the new map is now online.

I note that it's already out of date - the lift at Shadwell reopened a few days ago.

One wonders what will happen when the sponsorship deal runs out in 2021. Will some other multinational snap up the potential to overcharge tourists for the 'attraction' and slap their branding all over it too? Or will it be left to TfL?

Also, isn't West Ham a mess on the new map?

Here's another vote for that "ArabFly Dangleway" moniker. Brilliant!

And I believe Blackfriars isn't fully open yet either.

There is a small fault on the Wimbledon branch between East Putney and Southfields.

@Micheal:

"The more I read here, the more I notice that the British really do hate change. If it's not Routemaster buses, or cycle paths, it's some long forgotten tradition you are pining for. No wonder that most of your companies/major football teams are in foreign ownership."

Is this some kind of troll post? Who here is against cycle paths? Why would the sale of football teams to foreigners be a sign we hate change?

On a different note, I wonder how much Tfl pays the artists who design the tube map cover, and whether that money would be better spent on more essential projects.

"ArabFly Dangleway" is going to be my name of choice from now on!! :D

Sponsorship is a double edged sword. Without it many improvements would never happen, but having their name in our faces is the price demanded.

@CornishCockney - it's debatable whether the Dangleway is an "improvement" or a boondoggle. My money's on the latter.

Platform tube map goofs such as that highlighted by the Londonist are far from unusual. When the DLR platforms at Woolwich Arsenal opened to the public, they were fitted out with poster maps which proclaimed that very line to be firmly 'under construction'.

I just think the thick blue lines joining step-free blobs (like at Canning Town, and Kings Cross) are really ugly, and do not fit with the rest of the design at all. There must be a better way to represent the different degrees of accessibility for different platforms, while retaining the clean simplicity of the old-style map.

TfL have done their usual trick of reverting the map online back to the previous version - maybe another online update coming shortly?

I've got no problem with it being on. But then that's because I'm happy with a bit of change, and Emirates are getting what they paid for. Such is capitalism, and long may it live.

ArabFly Dangleway it is for me from now on.

The fares for the Dangleway don't concern me, even though I live right by the Peninsular, because I won't be using the thing.

I rather suspect that not many people will be and that this is going to cost every Londoner a few bob of their hard-earned wedge.

www.twitter.com/arabflydangleway - is still up for grabs.

Can we have a post dedicated to asking what on earth they've done to West Ham on the new map?

And while we're at it, can someone confirm if "Emirates Royal Docks" is the only station which seems not to have been connected to a line?

Liam - West Ham hasn't changed from the last map. And yes, he did have a good old moan about it then.

PS: Both Vauxhall and South Wimbledon had ample stocks of the new paper map this morning.

Cheers for the reply. I've only just found this blog :)

Not "good service" but "suspended", surely?

Hmmm. It's now Wednesday morning, and the new map still isn't on the TfL website. Where is it? All the tube stations have them stocked now ...

aaaaaand, it's now 7pm, Wednesday evening. Still no new map on the TfL site. Do think someone forgot to FTP it up?

well that's bizarre. if i open up the TfL website in Chrome... New map! if i open up exactly the same webpage in Firefox... old map! some kind of cache needs clearing out somewhere?

Another important addition is that the DLR is step free again at Bank!











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