{"id":74,"date":"2013-09-13T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulderdigital.wordpress.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:26:03","slug":"racing-the-bus-by-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonbuspal.co.uk\/blog\/racing-the-bus-by-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing the bus by tube!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I travel between Angel and Waterloo on most days. Most of the time, I take the 341 bus, because it always seems quicker than the tube and it&#8217;s also a whole lot less fuss. The strange thing is though, when I&#8217;m running late, I choose to take the tube, because even though the bus feels quicker, my logic tells me that the tube must be quicker. So I put it to the test this morning.<\/p>\n<p>First, some ground-rules: I always walk as fast as I can without running or being rude (no pushing people out the way). I walk up any moving escalator, and I know my route very well, I take the shortest route to each platform and take the first available train.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>09:21: Arrive at Waterloo station. Check the bus will be at stop F in 1 minute &#8211; if I want to make it to the bus, I need to get there now, but today, I&#8217;m racing the bus instead of taking it.<\/li>\n<li>09:24: I get down to the Waterloo &amp; City line platform with a train ready and waiting for me.<\/li>\n<li>09:29: Arrive at Bank station. At the point I begin to even wonder why I bothered &#8211; it all seems to be going quite quick. Unfortunately though, because I jumped straight on the train at Waterloo, I am right at the back of it, so have to fight my way through people to get to the Northern Line.<\/li>\n<li>09:33: I get to the Northern Line platform and I can see the train coming into the platform. Timing has been great this morning for trains, because usually I end up waiting for a few minutes.<\/li>\n<li>09:40: I arrive at Angel station and I am thinking that I am probably way ahead of the bus. Unfrotunately there is only one up escalator, so &#8220;traffic&#8221; is a bit heavy, but I still make it up in the end.<\/li>\n<li>09:43: I walk out of Angel tube station and open up my app to check where the bus is. I look across the road and think &#8220;No! This only happens in movies and documentaries.&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m assuming this will be a different bus, but I check the registration number and it is &#8211; the bus beat me to Angel station!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The benefits of the bus far outweigh taking the tube every day. Firstly, I&#8217;ve just proved that it&#8217;s faster for me to get across central London by bus (obviously, there are many tube routes which are faster &#8211; possibly if I tried doing the same starting from Vauxhall, results would be different), I have mobile signal when I&#8217;m on the bus &#8211; the wifi access on the tube works, but only in stations and I couldn&#8217;t pick up any signal at Moorgate station. And then there&#8217;s all the stairs and walking, which might be good for some trying to stay healthy, but I really hate getting to work all sweaty and red in the face. And the bus has a view of London! That&#8217;s probably the best reason to take the bus.<\/p>\n<p>The above experiment was done using bus times from the London Bus Pal application for Android. You can download it from the Google Play store here:\u00a0<a title=\"London Bus Pal\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mulder.buspal\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mulder.buspal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take the bus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I travel between Angel and Waterloo on most days. 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