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All that TfL had to do was to submit the proofs of the new map to some of the obsessives on District Dave. Any error would have been sniffed out in seconds.
I like the threaded eye. Is the pun in the name courtesy of DG or of the artist? When I thread a needle it usually blinks.
Looks like there's also an error in their Visiting London Top Tip #2 video about how to use your Oyster card. Look carefully at how the characters touch out.
@ N Flowers - alternatively they could employ people who have the requisite skills to ensure documents are proof read. There are endless errors in everything from Board papers to maps to reports. There are also problems in getting bus spider maps updated and a seeming inability to ensure the website is correct. Even where errors are pointed out directly to TfL they don't act on the information provided. I simply do not understand how such inaccuracies are tolerated in documents / information made available to the public. Is there no organisational pride in doing things properly?
Apparently there are other corrections...

According to Dstock7080 on District Dave in the original version

- Greenford is step-free to train (as shown on January 2016 map)
- Barbican shown as closed September 2016 until November 2016

On the reprint

- Greenford is step-free to platform
- Barbican closure removed

dg writes: Cheers! I've updated the post accordingly.
@ PC

You're certainly right about TfL not correcting problems reported to them. Piccadilly Line trains have posters inviting passengers call Heathrow Airport from their mobiles on an 0844 number to check which terminal to use. It's likely to cost a massive 52p/minute so it could easily wipe out a PAYG user's credit. Not a nice way to treat visitors to London.

Ofcom regulations mandate that the Service Charge must be stated and a warning of the Access Charge given every time that an 084/087 number is advertised or communicated, but TfL have refused to make their posters compliant. They just told me to go to the ASA if I didn't like it !

And woe betide anyone whose car has been clamped or towed away. You have to call 0845 206 8602. TfL misrepresent this as a free service, but it's likely to cost 47p/min from a mobile. Run out of PAYG credit and you'll be stranded not having a clue where your car has ended up !

It used to be the case that there was someone at TfL who did care, if he was e-mailed directly he could normally correct things, but he retired a few years ago - now those sort of comments vanish into the general 'blancmange' at TfL.

One of the North London spider maps had the 24 terminating south of the river Thames.

Unfortunately the sort of people who are good at this sort of stuff don't get through the 'give me an example where you have shown leadership' type of interview that TfL do now - and they suffer for it.
Just as an FYI... I work for TfL and we never received the maps over a significant number of stations. I'm not saying they weren't printed but they were certainly not delivered and recalled.

dg writes: I'm aware of more than one station that did get the maps, and had them taken back. But point taken.
Might be interesting to make a couple of FOI requests about (i) the cost of reprinting the Tube Maps and (ii) the cost of removing and replacing the pole and flag for Bus Stop M, and why this was necessary.

Then publish the answers in the blog and send a link to the Evening Standard !
I hate the artwork cover on this map. The eye feels too sinister
As a Print Finisher can I point out that the reprint of the map doesn't cost £100000, it's the printing and folding of the map that costs that. The finishing is a large part of the cost.

We always get forgotten!










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