please empty your brain below
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Posting this at 2:41 is perhaps one of the most 'dg' things you've done.
ThameslinkUser | 25.09.22 - 3:46 a.m. | #
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Well-written as usual you have made a bus journey sound well worth taking and I'm grateful and simultaneously wish you a relaxing Sunday.
Noel | 25.09.22 - 6:03 a.m. | #
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All the information says that the loop at Royal Wharf is done clockwise, but it's done anti-clockwise, I assume this is because...
dg interrupts: no, it's done clockwise.
There are two videos on YouTube showing the extension, one from five days ago which looks like it's for training, the other was uploaded yesterday and is in service.
Still Anon | 25.09.22 - 6:22 a.m. | #
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Dystopian that tunnel may be, but it's a great photo of it.
martin | 25.09.22 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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It's not a difficult photo to take. You just stand in the tunnel, point and click.
Looks great in real life too - all part of the deception to make sure you're thinking 'wow' by the time you reach the show flat.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.09.22 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Even the 17% of flats that are "affordable" probably aren't actually affordable in the conventional sense.
Ian | 25.09.22 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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Since the extension of the 330 for Crossrail, some drivers seem unable to know what destination they should be displaying on the front of the bus.
When the extension first happened, practically every bus said "Silvertown", but then "Pontoon Dock" was thrown into the mix. Pontoon Dock seems most popular now, but they are still interchangeable.
It's also an issue with the 101. One a few occasions, I've been waiting at Wanstead for the 308 back to Forest Gate and a 101 has rolled up. You can hear the announcement inside the bus - "101 to Beckton Station", but on the destination blind - "Beckton Alps".
Charlie | 25.09.22 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Yesterday most of the 241 blinds said Silvertown royal wharf, but some just said Royal Wharf.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.09.22 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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The variety in destinations displayed is probably down to TfL having persisted with blinds (which take time to replace) rather than electronic displays which can be changed at the press of a key
I note that TfL's bus map (to which you linked) shows the extended route but does not display route information at any of the stops served (only showing the 330 at the stops also served by that route, and for the terminus "Royal Crest Avenue -This stop does not serve any TfL routes").
So maybe only 5/10
timbo | 25.09.22 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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If I recall correctly, the luxury flats which replaced the Sainsbury's on William Morris Way near Imperial Wharf station pulled a similar trick, by putting their show apartment on a jetty out on the river. At least they replaced the Sainsbury's so local people can still do their shopping.
Greg | 25.09.22 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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I'm late to the tickylist party, but have you visited all of the bus stops M in London? Or is the one in Bow a DG special?
dg writes: see April 2017 and August 2017.
Simon | Homepage | 25.09.22 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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Ballymore got the planning permission approved around the time of the 2008 crash.. which helped to massage their financial viability to minimise affordable housing.
'Post-permission viability review' is now common to capture increases in value of homes etc.
James S | 25.09.22 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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I hate the term "affordable." Such a piss-take when all it means is that it costs just 80% of the market value of the rest which are already too expensive for most!
Such underhand selling tactics go against the Trade Descriptions Act.
Cornish Cockney | 25.09.22 - 11:13 a.m. | #
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Alas the definition of affordable is defined in regulation, so no claim on TDA.
The words to look for are "key worker", which invariably means that a housing association is also involved to operate the rentals. "Social tenure" is sometimes also used but that can cover affordable and shared ownership, I think
MilesT | 25.09.22 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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The map is correct on the TfL web-site, but not the list of stops…. ;-)
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 25.09.22 - 4:30 p.m. | #
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Latest change at the Stratford end of this journey is that the East Village Sainsburys local (or whatever they are called) has closed down and re-opened in a smaller shop across the road. This is so that the Sainsbury/neighbourhood building can be demolished ready for high rise student housing to be put in its place. The old Get Living building next to Stratford International is also due to be demolished and replaced with housing. eastvillageconsultation.co.uk
Joan | 26.09.22 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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