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Beep beep! Welcome back Mr Geezer, glad you could leave work on time today. We have noted your lost connection this morning and must update you on what you missed.
Beep beep! You'll be amazed at Chancery Lane's IQ buff.ly/4wfu1l7
Beep beep! You'll never believe how much weight Holborn has lost and what it looks like now buff.ly/9er1tt7
Ken | 15.02.17 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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A nightmare!
Jo W | 15.02.17 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Hilarious. Or perhaps not. Someone commented on Twitter there's an app called llama or something that one can set to (amongst other things) turn your phone's wi-fi off as soon as you leave home. I've a friend who never turns location services on on his phone or logs into anything continuously.
Beyoncé last night? Spot on. 47 things sometimes.
The routing thing interesting. Surprisingly that 2% went via Green Park and Holborn or that anyone went via Euston Square. Could be useful for irregular users to learn optimal but non obvious routes.
Lorenzo | 15.02.17 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Going via Euston Square is not entirely bonkers, you have a less crowded journey between Liverpool Street and Euston Square, good chance of even getting a seat if the first train is a Met Line one, also shorter walk between the platforms and some access points at Liverpool Street.
The change between Euston Square and Warren Street isn't that much hassle either - note they don't change at Kings Cross, I wonder if statistically this is the quickest route.
Conversely changing at Oxford Circus normally involves a shuffle along crowded passageways instead of brisk walking.
For me the surprise is that 26% use the Circle Line - perhaps reinforcing the assumption that many people prefer a slower direct journey without changes.
Still anon | 15.02.17 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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Oh ye gods, it reminds me of when I used to travel with my children! Non-stop wittering from the little budgies!!!
Cornish Cockney | 15.02.17 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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Isn't the biggest issue with changing between Euston Square and Warren Street is that it would be charged as two journeys if you don't have a travelcard?
Lumma | 15.02.17 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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@Lumma
Not listed by TfL as an out-of-station interchange, so it looks like you would be hit, yes.
@Still anon "Going via Euston Square ...... less crowded journey between Liverpool Street and Euston Square, good chance of even getting a seat if the first train is a Met Line one"
But if you started at Bow Road, you would be on an H&C train all the way - unless you are suggesting changing at both Mile End and Liverpool Street?
timbo | 15.02.17 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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@Timbo
The study that today's post is linked to is just showing journeys between Liverpool Street and Victoria, so I assume they are specifically travelling between those stations, as opposed to already being on a train, after all would lots of passengers from stations on the District Line get a H&C train to Liverpool Street then get the Circle to Victoria?, or get off a Central Line train at Liverpool Street then get the Circle to Victoria?
Still anon | 15.02.17 - 2:07 p.m. | #
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Sad thing is, some nerd in a start-up - probably in Stoke Newington - is trying to perfect all this as we speak. To sell on, of course, for a squillion or two. Never forget there is, apparently, an app that will tell you when you've got far enough along the platform at, say, Euston to have reached your carriage.
Gorgeous reminder of precisely why some of us still don't do smartphones and social media.
Quite content with common sense and the Mk1 eyeballs.
pet | 15.02.17 - 2:46 p.m. | #
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Ah - I was confusing DG's journey with the journeys in the study.
I'll go back to sleep now.
(using wifi on the Tube is not something I've done recently: I lost my Oyster card on New Year's Eve, and my Smartphone earlier this month).
timbo | 15.02.17 - 4:07 p.m. | #
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Interesting to note that other social species (such as ants, bees etc) achieve most of the objectives achieved by this nightmare smartphone scenario by using pheremones.
Our sense of smell is rather under-utilised.
Malcolm | 15.02.17 - 4:33 p.m. | #
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Although Euston Square to Warren Street is not an OSI, apparently Euston Square to Euston (a longer walk) is. Hmm.
Malcolm | 15.02.17 - 4:39 p.m. | #
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re Euston to Euston Sq; I once had a job checking season ticket records in tube station ticket offices. The most ridiculous request I overheard was at Euston, a tourist insisting on a ticket to Euston Sq. The staff did try, unsuccessfully, to talk her out of it.
amber | 15.02.17 - 5:28 p.m. | #
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Sounds like a version of Chinese water torture.
I listen to a comedy radio show each week here in the US which often has a multiple-choice quiz about outrageous new apps (and other inventions) from companies around the world. It is usually difficult to choose the correct answer due to them all sounding ridiculous. But one is always true.
Yours here would fit right in....
| 15.02.17 - 8:36 p.m. | #
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Have you watched the TV show Person of Interest? That reminded me very much of Root...
Silent Hunter | Homepage | 15.02.17 - 9:15 p.m. | #
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Lumma and Malcolm - Watch this space. Euston Sq-Warren St is mostly done by regulars as it's a bit obscure and might confuse casual users who wouldn't expect a walk along the road to change trains (at least Euston and Euston Square have similar names). This used to mean it would only be done by Travelcard holders so no need to join the 2 journeys for one fare. This has changed in recent years leading to a review of the interchange.
Ralph Ayres | 15.02.17 - 9:39 p.m. | #
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FONT = ON-TOPIC BLACK ;-)
The TfL spin emphases the public transport planning benefits, but no doubt commercial (and government?) spying is the real driver behind this tracking operation.
Interesting to note that TfL is busily spinning that it followed the ICO's guidance. Predictably, this guidance is meaningless because it states that organisations need only 'consider' warning people before they enter the tracking area and telling them in detail how they can opt out. Equally predictably, TfL just went ahead and ignored both recommendations.
Just another example of all the so-called watchdogs being totally useless.
Gerry | 15.02.17 - 10:53 p.m. | #
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I always wonder whether all this intruding advertising ever contributes any value. Or are advertisers don't have anywhere to better spend their money on, and decide to be charitable by funding (otherwise unprofitable) Internet entities? (After all, I fail to see the profitability of Internet entities, despite involving in it for 20 years)
Patrickov | 16.02.17 - 6:15 a.m. | #
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Patrickov - it's not advertisers being charitable. They are persuaded to use it by sales people from google and the rest. Not everyone believes such sales people, but the small fraction who do are quite enough to make it lucrative. Oddly enough marketing people (who should know better) are quite gullible sometimes.
Malcolm | 16.02.17 - 9:58 p.m. | #
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Malcolm - In fact, marketing people probably go into this with the same thought you have just mentioned - they only need a small fraction of us to make money.
Patrickov | 18.02.17 - 12:56 a.m. | #
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