please empty your brain below

Not sure if it carried over onto the posters, but the online map is often very buggy, particularly when it comes to multiple lines. For this weekend's one there are station glitches at Edgware Road and Liverpool Street, but I've seen worse things, like NLL closures highlighting the ELL instead of the NLL between Highbury and Canonbury (this happens quite often), and bits of the Circle line not being coloured in implying that there is a Metropolitan shuttle service between Farringdon and Barbican.

There was also a brief period last year where it interpreted bus stop closures outside stations as full station closures, but that's been fixed.
The overground closure (East London line version of overground) is especially poorly handled. If I use tfl journey planner to try to get from Shadwell to Peckham I am offered a really roundabout route through central London, yet "realtimetrains" shows direct overground trains operating on that section. Tfl information just gets worse and worse.
I've taken many a photo of a TfL poster of the years, but a standard weekend closures one doesn't appear to be one of them. I feel a bit like I'm letting the side down.
Why is the disruption in bold and date not?
Surely the most important info is date, as if you have no intention to travel on that line on that date (for instance a weekend closure affecting your Mon-Fri commuter route) it is irrelevant.
And like the weekend information email, it's decided not to mention the planned strike action, which is less than helpful.
"And there are only five closures on the Underground"

Apart from the 2 tube station closures, shouldn't that be four?

dg writes: the posters show five closures on four lines.
Well this could all go out the window due to the Strike due to start on Sunday evening.
Thanks to dg for yet again managing to go where the capital's paid transport journalists have failed to.
The Shadwell Overground closure is for emergency engineering works which I suspect is why the first poster did not include it.
quick! hold another referendum :)
I suspect the 90% of customers surveyed who said they found it confusing rather than helpful weren't actually wanting to know about closures at all (a bit like the high proportion who have never see a pink validator - because they have never needed to - but get included in the stats saying that they are not well publicised). I wonder what proportion of passengers wanting to know about weekend closures found the map more confusing than the wordy descriptions.
...and this is all a bit inconsistent. One poster is for (nearly) a calendar week while the other just covers the weekend. Only one says that Lambeth North is closed, and neither mentions the week-night evening closure of part of the Met line, which admittedly can be got round, but is still a pain with any form of encumbrance, more so than than the absence of the Circle line from Hammersmith to Edgware Road.
Andrew S, you make a good point. To build on it (I think) one issue is that the map has been - in a sense - back to front. It shows, in colour, where you *can't* go. I think it would have been better to keep the map but with the open lines shown in colour, and the bits that you can't get to (directly) grey-ed out (or non-existent. This is what the Night-Tube map does - which makes it easier to understand where you can get to, rather than where you can't. Well, that's my view anyway!
If you 'know' the tube, and are familiar with your journey, all you want to know is what's not running.

If you don't 'know' the tube, and aren't sure where you're going, what you need to know is what is running.

Can't easily keep both camps happy.
@Andrew
The map on the website has a menu item allowing you to do just that
[link]

It can be useful, but in general I find it easier to use the one which shows what is different. I think the only time printed versions of what is running (rather than what isn't) were seen was after 7/7, when an unprecedented amount of the network was out of action.

Link didn't work, but the menu is the box in the top right corner of the map that was linked.










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