please empty your brain below
The end credits were equally good. A catchy wee tune while Midge carried the name cards back and forth on foot and in his lorry.
dg writes: See previous discussion here
answer here, from The Man himself
http://mqt.london.gov.uk/mqt/public/question.do?id=47730
It might have been a sensible decision if it weren't for the unfortunate fact that the "white" tends to become grey very quickly. But TfL know what's good for us (ha ha)
Since you didn't join the other passenger dashing for the "bunch of fives" and haven't gone all the way into Staines to take the "other" 71, that leaves little doubt as to your next route. The question is, how far will you take it?
The 216 is agaon one of my local routes, although I rarely use it. You get a much better view of the parks from the 111 of course! Love the RF pictures: they were just on their way out when I first came back to London, and Kingston was their last outpost (beacuse the garage - which used to be on the site of the Rotunda leisure complex under which you passed) couldn't cope with the new longer single deckers)buses
Taggs island years ago was an entertainment venue as it was then owned by Fred Karno who got the famous theatre architect Frank Matcham to build a hotel and music hall (called The Karsino) on the island. Demolished in the 1970's.
Part of todays Odeon used to be Bentalls Repository.
At the roundabout before your bus turned into Feltham Hill Road, you may have seen ahead a large business park which is one of British Petroleum’s main office centres.
Even the hospital has lost its A&E.
I've got a good idea what comes next, bu after that, is DG goiing to be purist about the boundary, or go slightly further "inland" to save himself a change? We shall see.....
A few stats:
Longest journey so far: route 492 (13 miles, 65 minutes)
Second longest: 216 (11 miles in 55 minutes)
Shortest: route 464 (3 miles, 10 minutes - also fastest at 18mph)
next shortest: 64, 71 (both 3 miles, 15 minutes)
Slowest: Route 412: (3 miles, 20 minutes: 9 mph)
next slowest: Route R11 (5 miles, 30 minutes, 10 mph)
Total mileage: 65
Time: 315 minutes
Average speed 12.4 mph
Lowest route number: R8 or 64
Highest route number 492
Number of GLA border crossings to date: six (492, 166x3), 467, 216)
Average speed: 12mph
Route numbers currently total RR2371 Average route number is currently 237 (294 excluding "letter" routes)
Not so much allowed to, as required to:
From the RF story:
http://www.red-rf.com/rf-697
"The Metropolitan Police would not permit doors on red buses, as they were considered to slow down boarding and therefore impede traffic, so the red [RF] buses were built without doors and ran with a crew of two."
@ Jon Combe - the buses going the other way have always just said "Kingston".
thanks.
Also, the picture of the 216 seems to show the front of the bus very close to the shelter. Looks like it would require reversing...did not think that was permitted unless supervised?
Or is this o.k as it in a 'bus station'?
http://www.mtclearning.co.uk/images/busstation.jpg
note the "no pedestrians" prohibition
I wasn't impressed that TfL seemed unaware that the DDA had been repealed three years prior though, to be replaced by the Equality Act...
I am not convinced by the white yet.
The place where Cardinal Wolsey got his Hampton caught!
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