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It runs and I use it fairly regularly these days


Journey planners are Oooo kaayyy ish, but left to default settings they will suggest multiple routes


I've just asked it for a direct route to Clapham on Sunday, With buses only and it has come back with the 37 for every journey, no changes


It used to be a shocking service, frequency wise, but it is much better of late

I ran into the same problem last week and called transport for London. The guy on the phone apologised for their journey planner and said they knew it wasn't working properly. I just wanted to make sure the 37 was running and it took the TfL guy awhile to find the bus and tell me, yes, it was running.


Is it me or is the journey planner getting worse? I had a one hour journey yesterday timed, by the planner, as 1h 40m (so I was very early to my appointment).


Scylla

Bear in mind because it is holiday time there is less traffic on the roads so journeys do tend to be quicker than normal.



Scylla100 Wrote:

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> I ran into the same problem last week and called

> transport for London. The guy on the phone

> apologised for their journey planner and said they

> knew it wasn't working properly. I just wanted to

> make sure the 37 was running and it took the TfL

> guy awhile to find the bus and tell me, yes, it

> was running.

>

> Is it me or is the journey planner getting worse?

> I had a one hour journey yesterday timed, by the

> planner, as 1h 40m (so I was very early to my

> appointment).

>

> Scylla

Imagine if you could link the TFL route database to a new real time journey planner that worked off the GPS feature on your iphone/mobile.


So that wherever you are you simply type in the destination only and it gives you your fastest route and time of the next tube/bus/tram/train in your vicinity.


Does this exist yet or should I be giving Dragons Den a call?

MrBen Wrote:

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> Imagine if you could link the TFL route database

> to a new real time journey planner that worked off

> the GPS feature on your iphone/mobile.

>

> So that wherever you are you simply type in the

> destination only and it gives you your fastest

> route and time of the next tube/bus/tram/train in

> your vicinity.

>

> Does this exist yet or should I be giving Dragons

> Den a call?



There is something developed at the moment which though not this sophisticated will be a real help. Using GPS techology in buses there will be an application which will tell you what time the next bus will come to your stop on your phone/pc. And it will be more reliable than the old countdown system at stops.

MrBen Wrote:

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> Imagine if you could link the TFL route database

> to a new real time journey planner that worked off

> the GPS feature on your iphone/mobile.


I've got an app on my iPhone which can use your current location to figure out where the next bus to wherever you type in is. V v useful... although subject to the usual Journey Planner oddities still.

An alternative root would be to take the 185 to the Oval & then the 155 to Clapham.


I take the 37 to & back from Clapham on Sundays, but the 37 bus seems to take forever. I don't understand this, as when I am in Clapham, the 37 bus appears regularly.

There are also trains from Peckham Rye/Denmark Hill to Wandsworth Road at 20 and 50 minutes. Journey time 9 minutes from PR. Then iirc there's the 77(a) bus direct. Though I think Pandora's two train stratagem (jouney time 25 min) would be hard to beat for a speed/predictability combination.

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