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"Now the Olympics are over, haven't the weekend tube engineering works returned with a vengeance?"

Yes. I tried to get on the Piccadilly line at Leicester Square at about 5pm yesterday - never an easy undertaking, but as the Northern Line was closed, the queue started halfway across the ticket hall.

So I walked to Charing Cross and got on a normal train instead :)

Kirk | 07.10.12 - 8:55 a.m. | #

I'm fairly sure that not displaying the price in advance is illegal.

ian | 07.10.12 - 10:20 a.m. | #

I note that there is a 1 week break in the Google Steet view exhibition so go today or else not until 14th October. Thanks for the tip though - I will probably break the habit of a lifetime and do something cultural by going to the gallery.

PC | 07.10.12 - 11:14 a.m. | #

Mentioning engineering works - has anybody else noticed that the line closures map on the TfL Live Update site is wrong?

There was no Northern line service on the Charing Cross branch between Camden Town and Charing Cross yesterday and there is non today. The CX branch also includes Mornington Crescent. However, whoever highlights the lines as closed has no idea of how the Underground works and has instead shown the Bank branch as closed (black) between Euston and Camden Town, whilst leaving the CX branch between Euston and Camden Town (via Mornington Crescent) open (grey). There is no connection between the branches at Euston so trains can’t swap from one to the other. This is a mistake that is frequently made and other staff that look at Live Update obviously see nothing wrong as it remains displayed like this all day.

On the weekend map yesterday, and during the closure of the High Barnet – Camden Town branch first thing this morning, they also showed both branches as closed between Camden Town and Euston, implying that there were no Bank trains running north of Euston (there was a normal service on the Bank branch to Edgware). Now (11:55) since the opening of the Barnet branch, they’ve now gone back to (wrongly) showing the CX section between Euston and Camden Town as open and the Bank section closed.

Roger | 07.10.12 - 12:04 p.m. | #

Ian
I'm not sure if it's illegal or not, but I think it would certainly give grounds for a dispute if you weren't happy with the bill.

I detest places where they don't display the price and I have to ask. There's probably some truth in the saying that goes something like "if it isn't priced, you can't afford it!"

To me, if items aren't priced it usually means that:
a) the price is way too high \nd they don't want to put prospective buyers off
b) "we'll charge you what we think we can get out of you"
Either way, I'll rarely buy anything from them.

Roger | 07.10.12 - 12:11 p.m. | #

Cafes - beware of consumers of tea and cakes in Kew who don't ask how much they cost until after they've consumed them.

NLW | 07.10.12 - 1:10 p.m. | #

I still really want that cake. Maybe I should make some?

Albert | 07.10.12 - 3:24 p.m. | #

I don't think events in Trafalgar Square need to go begging for visitors - the place was heaving on Saturday afternoon... seemed like mostly family groups and tourists. I was thinking of having a wander round, then I heard the announcing of the Lolita fashion show from the stage, and decided I'd really rather not...

Btw, coffee and walnut cake from the National Gallery cafe, a proper slice of cake with the right ratio of featherlight icing and sponge - worth every penny : )

s | 07.10.12 - 4:23 p.m. | #

sadly i am now rather late to have my annual gold card recorded on my Oyster as it only has two months validity left - but last time I did remeber to do it the staff at St Pauls knew exactly what to do.

timbo | 07.10.12 - 4:40 p.m. | #

You can also have student railcards and ancient person's railcards added to Oysters. The ticket office person at Charing Cross underground station knew exactly what to do on my 60th birthday last year when I brandished my hours-old senior railcard and asked him to add it to my Oyster.
Now I'm 61 and a bit and have a Freedom Pass it's less relevant (only I imagine for travelling on those few Oyster routes outside Greater London), but I still had it added to the Oyster for those few occasions I need it.

Alan Burkitt-Gray | 07.10.12 - 5:07 p.m. | #

Not just TFL tube engineering works - but also roadworks are back - especially for crossrail e.g. at Farringdon. Also the signs of London 2012 that have been there for a few years are disappearing - the original London 2012 shop at St Pancras has now closed - but at least a few councils have kept up their London 2012 flags and a lot of the flags with the London 2012 Logos and National flags intertwined are still there on Cromwell Rd (they don't tell you the name of the country so you have to guess by the sequence sometimes)

KissenMe | 07.10.12 - 7:55 p.m. | #

The ability of staff to add a Gold Card (or indeed, any other railcard) discount is incredibly hit and miss, I've found. The last time I did it at Victoria, I had to effectively talk the member of staff through it.

It's also incredibly unknown among the general populace, it seems. Several of my colleagues at my work have Gold Cards, and I'm the only one to have the discount on my Oyster - and indeed was the only one to even know my Gold Card gave me a discount on the fare on a recent trip to Cambridge. I'm not sure if this is lack of advertising and information, or just lack of reading.

SamB | Homepage | 07.10.12 - 11:12 p.m. | #

Yay - NZ guy - DG cameo!

wilees from NZ | 08.10.12 - 6:34 a.m. | #

On Friday I stumbled across Malaysia Night in Trafalgar Square - nothing obvious going on on stage in the middle of the afternoon, but most of the city's Malaysian restaurants had a presence in the tents along the sides. Another tent had a sign saying 'Win Malaysia,' which I thought was a very generous prize.

I suspect you could put anything on in Trafalgar Square and it would draw a sizeable crowd of curious tourists, even with no publicity.

martin | 08.10.12 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Dear Diamondgeezer -- have you seen any of these? http://wharferj.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/underground-guerilla-signs/

M Ingram | 08.10.12 - 9:55 p.m. | #

My sister and my son are on Street View, separately. You can run but you can't hide.

GAA | 11.10.12 - 9:59 p.m. | #











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