Lost in London?
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don't ask locals for directions [^] ... 33% admit to deliberately giving people the wrong directions. :sigh: Survey says more people get lost in London than any other city. 1 in 4 use digital navigation to help them get around where ever they are.
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
33% admit to deliberately giving people the wrong directions.
Oh, I'd never do something like that.. :~ I have to admit it can be hard to find your way around; I just use the Tube (London traffic can be a nightmare) and staff on the Underground are pretty helpful if you need to get somewhere from a particular station. Regards, --Perspx
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don't ask locals for directions [^] ... 33% admit to deliberately giving people the wrong directions. :sigh: Survey says more people get lost in London than any other city. 1 in 4 use digital navigation to help them get around where ever they are.
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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I don't get where Indian men are the most likely people in the world to miss the birth of their child comes fro in relation to getting lost - can't they find their way to the hospital (or home?) I do admit to spending my youth giving tourists bad directions in London, though! We also used to compete to see how much we could get ripped off by pretending to be a tourist - holding out three or four pounds worth of change to an ice-cream man while speaking in a strong foreign accent and seeing how much they dared take! I think the record was about three quid for a 30p icecream.
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
33% admit to deliberately giving people the wrong directions.
Oh, I'd never do something like that.. :~ I have to admit it can be hard to find your way around; I just use the Tube (London traffic can be a nightmare) and staff on the Underground are pretty helpful if you need to get somewhere from a particular station. Regards, --Perspx
"A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year."
-Andrew Tanenbaum
"Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."
-Fred BrooksPerspx wrote:
staff on the Underground are pretty helpful
I was there only for 2 months, but the staff were anything but polite. No wonder TFL has posters everywhere warning people not to take it out on their staff... :~
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don't ask locals for directions [^] ... 33% admit to deliberately giving people the wrong directions. :sigh: Survey says more people get lost in London than any other city. 1 in 4 use digital navigation to help them get around where ever they are.
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
London can be difficult to navigate at the best of times: even taxi drivers (who have to study for 3-4 years before they get a licence) use satnav these days. We went into town Saturday night to meet some friends. It's a journey I've made many times and it used to take me 30-40 minutes from home to the west end. Now it never takes less than 60-80 minutes and, even late at night, when you'd think the traffic would be less, still takes a good hour to get home. And I know some of the short cuts! I suppose that is why driving in, for instance, Florida, is so easy. Wide roads, little traffic (compared to London) and a grid pattern. Marvellous.
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London can be difficult to navigate at the best of times: even taxi drivers (who have to study for 3-4 years before they get a licence) use satnav these days. We went into town Saturday night to meet some friends. It's a journey I've made many times and it used to take me 30-40 minutes from home to the west end. Now it never takes less than 60-80 minutes and, even late at night, when you'd think the traffic would be less, still takes a good hour to get home. And I know some of the short cuts! I suppose that is why driving in, for instance, Florida, is so easy. Wide roads, little traffic (compared to London) and a grid pattern. Marvellous.
digital man wrote:
I suppose that is why driving in, for instance, Florida, is so easy. Wide roads, little traffic (compared to London) and a grid pattern. Marvellous.
True but the grid pattern doesn't help that much in the big city's. At least not for travel time, it does make the city alot easyer to navigate. When I was in New York, I was stunned bye the fact that drivers actually waited well over half an hour to travel around 500meters (granted it was at time square but still) Outside the city's its easy driving. Only been to london once and that was a long time ago so can't really say much about that.
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digital man wrote:
I suppose that is why driving in, for instance, Florida, is so easy. Wide roads, little traffic (compared to London) and a grid pattern. Marvellous.
True but the grid pattern doesn't help that much in the big city's. At least not for travel time, it does make the city alot easyer to navigate. When I was in New York, I was stunned bye the fact that drivers actually waited well over half an hour to travel around 500meters (granted it was at time square but still) Outside the city's its easy driving. Only been to london once and that was a long time ago so can't really say much about that.
Last time I drove in London it took me 2 hours to drive 7 miles. By comparion the previous 425 miles of the journey took 8 hours.
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Last time I drove in London it took me 2 hours to drive 7 miles. By comparion the previous 425 miles of the journey took 8 hours.
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I guess I'll try to avoid driving in london :)
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digital man wrote:
I suppose that is why driving in, for instance, Florida, is so easy. Wide roads, little traffic (compared to London) and a grid pattern. Marvellous.
True but the grid pattern doesn't help that much in the big city's. At least not for travel time, it does make the city alot easyer to navigate. When I was in New York, I was stunned bye the fact that drivers actually waited well over half an hour to travel around 500meters (granted it was at time square but still) Outside the city's its easy driving. Only been to london once and that was a long time ago so can't really say much about that.
Tom Deketelaere wrote:
True but the grid pattern doesn't help that much in the big city's.
Certainly not in NY where it is nearly as bad as London but I've driven in and around many of the major US cities and they've all been very easy (apart from, maybe the LA freeways).
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Last time I drove in London it took me 2 hours to drive 7 miles. By comparion the previous 425 miles of the journey took 8 hours.
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Yes, this happens when you travel 425 miles down M74/A74(M)/A74/M6/M1, then the M1 dumps you on the North Circular, which is completely inadequate. (You may instead have been using M6/M42/M40 but that dumps you on an equally inadequate A-road.) At one stage there were plans to build four orbital motorways in London, and a number of other 'radial' motorways connecting them. The M25 is part of Ringway 3, part of Ringway 4. This map[^] shows which bit goes where, with the dotted line around Watford showing the route of the section built to connect up the two original plans. Ringway 1 was pretty controversial though as it would have had to demolish or tunnel under a lot of existing buildings. This was done in many other cities, but London kept most of its ancient road network. More about the Ringways[^].
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