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This is great. Don't stop the blog. Discovered the site this week, with many late nights spent perusing the archive. Fortunately I am on holiday.
james | 02.09.04 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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You know what DG: we should create a database of "A to B instructions" by knowledgable commuters. If we had a full mesh of instructions like these then we could publish a book - which might one day become as commonplace as the London A-Z.
Having said that - if everybody followed these optimum instructions ...
Jag | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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That's a good idea! I've had to use alternate routes and moved flats enough times in the past few years to contribute about 7 or 8 recommendations. I usually have a "faster" route, a "less changes" route and a "less walking" route (for crap weather, not because I'm lazy) at minimum.
Chz | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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DG, quite simply.... Fabulous!
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Christian | 02.09.04 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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You've missed out the mean, mode and median times to do that journey on each day of the week.
And don't pretend you don't know them either 
Blue Witch | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 12:14 p.m. | #
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Thanks for an excellent tale of successful obsessive route-minding. Good luck on your new commute & i hope it comes together quickly.
The Perfesser | 02.09.04 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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Marvellous! I no longer have to take the tube (thank tha lawd-ah!) but it's good to enjoy a bit of nostalgia for the obsessive-compulsive route learning behaviour that it elicits.
(Also it's nice to know I'm not the only one who did/does it!)
Ant | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 2:00 p.m. | #
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That was great DG. I had to laugh because we are all such craetures of habit and routine. I agree with theose above who suggested a database of commutes. Becuase once you find the 'sweet spot' it makes that travelling hell much easier.
jo | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 3:29 p.m. | #
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But if you were given the sweet spot wouldn't it make the task of finding it less rewarding? (I only ask as that is what makes the start of a new commute partially bareable, for me anyway).
harriet | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 5:54 p.m. | #
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Lovely DG! But then I am a sucker for anything at all about tube travel; I even have an umbrella with a map of the system on (or did have, until it fell apart in a Manchester rainstorm..)
Good luck with the new commute also, I'm sure you will be a dab hand at it in no time.
jonathan | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 6:02 p.m. | #
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Don't forget Black Friday tomorrow... I expect stories from Seven Sisters, Waterloo, Oxford Circus etc...
Hmph. I wish I had a car. Something big and vulgar, like a Cadillac Escalade, to piss Ken Livingstone off.
Matt | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 8:47 p.m. | #
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Step 8 worked a treat this morning
Hope it does again tomorrow - it's my Black Friday too.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.09.04 - 10:41 p.m. | #
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Sounds like someone moved the Metro dispenser at Bow Road. Its been a while.
Surely you could take the gentler route and take the number 8 bus. Much more civilised. Oh well, new job I assume we will hear about the optimum way eventually.
Uncle Hunty | 02.09.04 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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I'd have a crack at doing the same for Melbourne, but we only have three 'underground' stations.
Sterling effort, DG!
Agent FareEvader | Homepage | 03.09.04 - 4:13 a.m. | #
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A true professional : I enjoyed "Bow Road to Green Park" so much that I had to blog my own commute in an attempt to pay tribute to such a carefully observed and well written description of a daily hell-fest.
see the Sept '04 entry at
http://cgi.chillicheese.plus.com.../php/
weblog.php
KingCommute | Homepage | 04.09.04 - 11:25 p.m. | #
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