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"Bus slipstreams cyclist down Oxford St - gets to other end 4 minutes early."

The perception of being held up by a cyclist "pedalling not very furiously", would appear to be worse than the reality?

The ice cream van outside the Albert Hall would have been serving the hordes of attendees and participants in the National Brass Band Championships, which took place there yesterday. If it's the same as last year's, it's not very good and is overpriced. But maybe all ice cream vans are, these days.

The Commonwealth Institute has been there for years. I went there on a school trip in 1981. I was 11 at the time-it was dull but my special pack lunch was good!

If that Ice Cream van had been in Brighton today (or yesterday) it would have been besieged. It's a glorious day. Hopefully it's similarly glorious in London today and you're are doing something interesting. Not that you ever do anything not interesting.

On a different subject, I had a great chat (and phone number) from a hot single mum after giving up the front seat on the 12a from Brighton to Eastbourne. Shame I don't like children.

Your link to subscriber only content in New Civil Engineer suggests your are a subscriber. As it seems this costs money, could this be a clue to you occupation ? Maybe you have a fascinating life designing sewers or something.

dg writes: Ah, that linked perfectly from Google, but hits a paywall from anywhere else. So I've swapped the link for something more accessible.

My youngest is still announcing "305...to...Kingsbury Circle" 3 months after we got back from London!! Get's some strange looks here in America, I can tell you!

So you amazingly managed not to get one that truncates itself at Marble Arch or Hyde Park Corner and doesn't warn anybody, which is what every number 10 to Hammersmith had started doing before I gave up taking them...?

CornishCockney: Route 305 is a pretty suburban loop between my local neighbourhood of Kingsbury and Burnt Oak. What I like about this particular route is that there is a stretch within which you can flag the bus down from anywhere in the street! How charming that your youngest has such lasting memory of this obscure route!

Has the 'regulating service' bus hold ups been getting worse recently?

When I used to commute by bus daily in London 5 years ago I never heard it on the various routes or had buses stopping for excessive time to keep to a slow padded out timetables as seems to happen increasingly now.

I moved to Bristol 5 years ago and the buses there were awful for that. So much padding in the timetables so when there wasn't gridlock the journey was no quicker. I gave up using them due to that.
Buses in London seemed brilliant in comparison for getting to a destination in as quick a time as possible. Having taken some buses in London recently I experienced long waits at bus stops andd it seemed to have gone the way of Bristol, and your article fives another example along with others I've heard. So have tfl been slowing down timetables in order to make them more reliable with the effect of slowing journeys?

Sounds like you had a pretty enjoyable time. It's only relatively recently that I had a go at seeing Oxford Street >not< as a Londoner but trying to see it as an outside visitor might. The result was a real eye-opener and I now genuinely enjoy going there!
For my 10/10/10 I found myself in Rome, and I spent most of the day exploring the 'Monumental' cemetery there. I didn't originally mean to spend so long there but the place turned out to be absolutely enormous. And well maintained too.

" one way georgian canyon "...that is sheer class DG, very well put











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