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@scrumpy - I don't think DG has responded to your query as it is patently obvious he means travelled the line, as opposed to each of the two tracks, an absurd restriction.
dg writes: Because I went to Chesham.
Curious as to how you've ridden all the Piccadilly line, yet you've not ticked off Uxbridge. Did you just change onto the Met line and go back again?
dg writes: Yup.
And all possible crossovers - now there's a challenge!
i once went right through the turn back siding at Woodford. And thought jeez, I know folk who'd pay serious money to score that one. And minor bonuses like reversing back to Epping from the westbound platform at Debden
There should be some rare crossovers available at South Ken this week. And a few other places too I think.
dg writes: It's in zone 4, and my travelcard is 1-3, so I always get off one stop early.
Presumably DG did not go to Richmond for the same reason that he did not eat a chocolate and cucumber sandwich.
Either would have been possible, but the circumstances did not arise.
dg writes: I'd count it if I did it. I tend not to do it.
But presumably you would count going to a station to visit a nearby museum/shop/park or whatever, and then later using the same station to leave the area. So just how much activity is required between using the out and the in gate?
dg writes: I'm keeping track, and my Annual Travelcard is currently working out 25% cheaper than if I were using Pay As You Go.
If you're asking the same question again - of whether readers had a tube map for 2017, which they marked up with the stations they'd visited, my answer would continue to be a no.
Although I now, apparently, qualify for something called a 'Freedom Pass' which would pretty much throw the whole public transport system open to me, I've done nothing about getting one of those, either.
As long as I can still get anywhere around London that I want to get to, by motorbike, that'll remain my chosen mode of transport.
It is, however, possible that a change to all this might be in sight.
I know it's TfL's job to make wrecking London's roads infrastructure a misery [so that people will resort to public transport instead of driving] and it has to be admitted they've been doing it particularly well.
They've already wrecked most road routes into London from the south east, and from their latest proposals it seems they won't be satisfied until they've ruined Jamaica Road, too.
I believe your recent post about bus frequencies was quite telling; or at least should be telling something to TfL. What they say about wanting more people to use public transport [buses] is being completely negated by what they've been actually been doing to the roads, which has been making road travel so insufferable that it's been affecting bus travel too, to the point that passenger numbers are, if anything [and it seems to be evidenced by all you reported], dropping.
No matter how free the Freedom Pass might be, it'll never compare with the true freedom provided by a motorcycle, of going where you want, when you want. No route-planning, no waiting, no frustrations, just an ignition key.
It may well be that that simple, individual freedom - unless, of course, you're a cyclist - is the thing that TfL most resent and want to crush down until it turns the idea of a trip into London a complete anathema. Hey, no problem. There are plenty of other maps besides the ones covering London.
It's totally fine by me if TfL actually want me* to "reset my compass." I might miss being able to visit the old place, but - as you've so ably shown - there are plenty of other places to go :)
*though I'm still a bit lost to see what a simple, basic motorcycle has ever done to make the city's congestion any worse, or poison anyone with its fumes.
This year I have entered/exited at 133 stations, with Stonebridge Park in the lead (at 54) then
Wembley Central 35
Wembley Stadium and London Marylebone 32 each
Alperton 31
then it drops a bit to
Wembley Park and Ealing Broadway both 18
and then pretty much in to single figures
Maybe a dozen trips, and only eight different stations, since I lost my Oyster last New Year's night. The most recent trip was on Boxing Day when I had to go into London and there were no proper trains, so I had to trek all the way over to Colliers Wood.
SPOILER: it's less than 270
As for going to Amersham or Chesham, as mentioned in a comment above, I 'did' Amersham (not for work) soon after I got my Freedom Pass because it was the furthest I could go (I live in East London) and it was FREE! Some time later I planned to go to Chesham for completeness but had to wait ages at Baker St for the right train, then when I finally got there it was raining heavily...I decided that I preferred Amersham.
40 stations blogged, and I'd estimate 65 touched in and out of.
Not great, but moved here in early spring and decided about a month later that I'd visit as many stations as possible and blog about the experience.
I don't have a tube map but I record all my public transport journeys. My wanderlust has been very low over the last year so my grand total of stations in Greater London is only 38. That includes a couple of NR stations that are not served by TfL services. I only managed two days of journeys on main line services that run beyond Gtr London - one into Essex and one to Oxford / Reading.
What I have done, on the other hand, is visited every tube station I hadn't visited prior to this year - and every DLR station bar Custom House...
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