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Yes, it's amazing how complicated it is to get to the QEOP from Stratford Station. If you can even navigate the station that is (post passim).
I have done it a few times and always have to stop to reorientate myself. Map research confirms that as you say there is nothing straightforward about it. In normal times you also have to avoid hordes of shoppers walking aimlessly which would also add more time to the journey.
Ken | 08.07.21 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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You've highlighted one (just one of a number!) of pet hates - why not just say how far it is in miles? That way people can estimate time at their own known pace.
In the US it really gets me when somewhere is "An hour north of town/city" - an hour at what speed?
Rob Gullen | 08.07.21 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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Potentially an interesting FoI request for the data used to arrive at the 10 minute figure!
Tim W. | 08.07.21 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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You have given me a few ideas for my walk not too far from there tomorrow. Whether I will find the blossom garden remains to be seen. But I will encounter the Westfield navigation nightmare and probably take far more than your fifteen minutes.
davews | 08.07.21 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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Underestimating actual travelling times is a marketing ploy that developers of new build properties use all the time in order to make their developments appear more attractive than they really are, and it is something that really annoys me.
fishislandskin | 08.07.21 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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Given that the period the trees will actually be displaying blossom will be relatively short each spring, Blossom Garden is a misnomer. For the majority of the time the space will simply be Garden.
Frank F | 08.07.21 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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I live in a place that house builders often advertise as being only 18 or 19 minutes by train from central London, however far the houses are from the station.
My regular commute normally (when there was such a thing) takes at least an hour and sometimes more. But that includes practicalities such as actually walking to the station, waiting for the next train, then perhaps waiting for the next fast train, and finally walking from the station at the other end to my destination.
If only I could teleport to the station straight onto a fast train about to leave, and then teleport from the other station to my ultimate destination. But then perhaps I could just teleport to my destination in zero minutes. Somewhat like the commute while working at home.
Andrew | 08.07.21 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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I had walked through Westfield for several years - principally changing trains between International stn and Stratford stn - before discovering it had an outside bit upstairs. But if it's not raining, the fastest way seems to be to go round the outside, which as Ken says, avoids the hordes of shoppers.
Man of Kent | 08.07.21 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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I trust you'll be reporting back on how long the misleading poster survives.
ap | 08.07.21 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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They could have spent their time redesigning the totem in your third picture where overground appears to have been shoved upwards to allow a miserable little stripe for tfl rail.
kev | 08.07.21 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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i see that the morbid practice of leaving flowers to decay in memory of the deceased has begun. i hope they were not picked from beds on the approach.
the other eric | 08.07.21 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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A classic DG post at its best!
Cornish Cockney | 08.07.21 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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The Blossom Garden was specifically designed as a commemorative space, so the leaving of floral tributes is very much part of the plan.
(dead/dying flowers are removed by the Park's gardening team)
(these flowers were left after a memorial event last weekend)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.07.21 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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While such a space for commemorating those succumbing to Covid 19 is reasonable I'd prefer the practice of floral tributes to be confined to the natural annual one as perceived by the Japanese who supplied the cherry trees.
Their culture sees the 2 week life of cherry blossom as a melancholic yet beautiful metaphor for our fleeting lives.
the other eric | 08.07.21 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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(the trees weren’t supplied by the Japanese and most aren’t cherries, to extend the flowering season)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.07.21 - 12:15 p.m. | #
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That intermodal sign pole looks shoddier as you go from top to bottom.
Greg S | 08.07.21 - 6:53 p.m. | #
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I think the Overground roundel is a temporary replacement after the previous one fell off. I suspect the whole thing is due for replacement when TfL Rail becomes Elizabeth I.
martin | 09.07.21 - 7:37 a.m. | #
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Having used Abbey Wood occasionally in the early 80s as a commuter, I'm amazed that this once-insignificant backwater is now centre-stage. It was about to be re-built, I think, as I was leaving London in 1986.
cau1khead | 09.07.21 - 12:27 p.m. | #
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For some reason people get away with this. My parents live in Somerset, and in the distant and hopefully long forgotten past there was a Mr Blobby theme park near Chard, which was described on TV adverts as 10 minutes from the M5. It was about 15 miles of winding country A-road, it would need a helicopter to do it in the advertised time, and yet it was shown for years
Herned | 09.07.21 - 11:55 p.m. | #
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I think the Overground roundel is a temporary replacement after the previous one fell off. I suspect the whole thing is due for replacement
Joel G | 16.07.21 - 1:33 p.m. | #
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