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I used to live in Lewisham, worked at Kennington. 36 bus was my poison, and if I missed one there was another one along in a few minutes. Now and then the bus service was disrupted and I might wait thirty minutes. Once or twice a month.
In Maida Hill we are thirty seconds walk from the bus stop, and there are several buses that stop there. Two minutes walk the other way and there are other buses, five minutes up towards St. John's Wood and there are more, up to Edgware Road there are even more.
Not even counting the tubes, three of which in close proximity, you can more or less pick a destination and jump on a bus that will get you there or within a short walk. Twenty-four-seven, night services being just a little less frequent.
On that basis alone London Transport ranks as one of the most wide ranging and comprehensive services in the world. Never mind the overland trains or the tubes, which in my experience and use have been near to brilliant over the last quarter century.
Where we are in the Highlands there are no buses.
Our last house was two miles from a bus route.
There were two buses a day, only because of the schools.
It really is all relative.
In Maida Hill we are thirty seconds walk from the bus stop, and there are several buses that stop there. Two minutes walk the other way and there are other buses, five minutes up towards St. John's Wood and there are more, up to Edgware Road there are even more.
Not even counting the tubes, three of which in close proximity, you can more or less pick a destination and jump on a bus that will get you there or within a short walk. Twenty-four-seven, night services being just a little less frequent.
On that basis alone London Transport ranks as one of the most wide ranging and comprehensive services in the world. Never mind the overland trains or the tubes, which in my experience and use have been near to brilliant over the last quarter century.
Where we are in the Highlands there are no buses.
Our last house was two miles from a bus route.
There were two buses a day, only because of the schools.
It really is all relative.
