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When I first moved up to the very end of the Holloway Road, I once made the mistake of getting on the first bus at Nag's Head that read "Archway". I reasoned that since it was a 10 minute ride up the A1, any bus with that destination would go straight there. 20 minutes later... I know the #4 as "that one to avoid". It has crappy service? Good! That's what you get for gallavanting around N7 and N19 like that.

I used to work on Fleet Street and really, it has more law firms than publishers. God forbid that a newspaper might be located there. But horror of horrors you forgot to mention the recently refurbed Daily Express building. The exterior is lovely, but it is the entrance hall that makes it really stand out for me - maybe that isn't visible from the top deck?

So once you reached North London, what did you? Heaven forbid if you are still stuck up there...

"Arsenal Fish Bar, the Arsenal Cafe, the Arsenal Supermarket, the Arsenal Barbers, the Arsenal Tavern and The Gunners (another pub, of course)."

Hmmm. There's a theme developing here that I just can't quite put my finger on.....

Until I move southwards, the 4 is my daily evening route from Waterloo Station to connect with W3 home. It is indeed a piss-poor service, with the shabbiest and mankiest buses in town (the L-reg Vs with their absolutely crippling, cushionless Fainsa Ariane seats). But I take that and then W3 if just to avoid the 243, which in spite of being more direct, attracts a far grottier clientele.
It's up for tender shortly, so within the year the poxy Vs will all be gone, whoever wins it.

I think I missed the point, whilst on board my number 4 bus, that the route it was taking was long, indirect and circuitous. On a map, however, it is rather obvious.

Not a journey I'm keen to repeat, anyway.

Ah a bus from my neighbourhood - sort of a bus of two journeys - the bit from Archway to Finsbury Park and the bit from Finsbury Park to Waterloo - never want to ride the whole route because theres a hundred better alternatives that'll get you there quicker.

One hundred cars, if I could afford them...











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