elizlondon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The way I tend to favour to get into the West End > is by catching the 185 to Oval tube station for > the Northern line (to Leicester Sq or Goodge St or > what-have-you with a quick change across the > platform at Kennington), or continue on the bus > for Vauxhall tube station for the Victoria line > (to get to Oxford Circus). > xxxxxx The advantage of the 176 was that although it might have been a longer journey, you didn't have to change, just got on and looked out of the window or read the paper until you got off. The new arrangements could be improved if the driver told you when you had reached the end of the journey :-S I was on a 176 recently, it reached St Giles Circus but I had no idea that was the end of its route - I thought it had been diverted due to a demo in Trafalgar Square, as there seemed to be a lot of police vans and people about on the embankment.and there were diversion signs up. It stopped there for ages but there was a wheelchair getting off and the ramp going up and down, with appropriate announcements over the loudspeaker (wheelchair ramp up, etc) and we thought it was due to that, as the engine was still running. After about ten minutes the bus moved forward about - oh, a metre - and turned all the lights and engine off. There were fifteen or so people on the upper deck, including us, all of whom had patiently sat there throughout the wheelchair manoeuvring, with no idea that the bus was actually going no further. The driver claimed he'd told us - amazing then that not one of the people on the upper deck had heard him. Had to have a nice sit down in Foyle's Jazz Cafe to recover :))