Only one of us knew that a race was going on. At the beginning of the C10 bus route at Victoria station in Central London, I got mixed with half a dozen future crowds PassengersBut when the bright red solo-decar London bus pulled and the doors opened, I stepped back, noted the registration number (BV20 Gug) and time (8.47am) and waited for everyone. As the driver pulled, I started walking-with a trip of four miles, to see the roads of the capital to see if it is possible to exclude a normal vehicle on a standard. Transport to London Service.
The path I chose is one of the installments that have recently been revised to try to promote the proposal when the transport budget is tight. C10 combines one of the most important rail stations in London with Canadian water dollands suburbs – a major transport center in itself, as well as a lot of buses, along with a lot of buses, Jubilee Line of London underground and a window line of overground. (It was known as the East London Line, and is confused under the canada water instead of overground.)
C10 does not take the most direct route. It moves towards the south -west, away from the water of Canada, scooping the passengers of Victoria before switching to an Easter track. Route Pimlico and Meanders through above Westminster bridgeWhich crosses another major transport hub, before running for London Waterloo.
Many buses run from here to elephants and cacles in the convoy, as well as widely ideal for the tram. But transport in London can be shameful. The capital gave the world underground railways, and yet the development of the subtrenian metro has failed to keep pace with population. Even the Landmark Elizabeth line was three years late and more than the budget.
The tram lines were torn down after World War II, even though it was plain, after life, that they are perfect for underground trains in the service of dense transport corridors of a world -class city. Instead, a super-compelted junction between a procession of diesel buses and “The Elephant” for the road location around St. George Circus halfway.
This was the first place at which I converted with C10. Wisely, I was running along the most direct route, a really pedestrian-friendly walking through the Westminster, crossing on the Lemeth Bridge-which rumors suggests, is subject to hot for hots since it was opened in 1932. I then used to cut the Imperial War Museum next to the spiral for the spiral. I passed the Obilisk in the middle of the roundabout, which gives the description of the distance of Westminster and Fleet Street (about one mi).
C10 was not seen anywhere; Being the 21st century, I can track my opponents, BV20 Gug. I crossed the field of name and embarrassment by William Blake in Jerusalem for my “dark, satanic mills” and led through Bermonde. By the time I reached the Bermondi underground station, it seemed that the game was up. C10 was caught with me and disappeared towards the Rethethe Peninsula.
Everything was not lost. Any sensible traveler who actually wanted to go into Canada’s water will be closed next to the entrance of the Roderhe Tunnel (under the Tems) and runs in about seven minutes for Canada’s water. But the last Utkarsh of C10 is to loop around the entire peninsula, around the Stave Hill Ecological Park, finally before sprinkling at Canada Water Bus Station.
When you see a chance, take it: I’m leaving, only temporarily obstructed by Northwest Quadrant of Southwark Park.
An hour and 14 minutes after departing from Victoria, I reached Canada’s water. If C10 had been keeping for its 75 -minute schedule, I would have defeated it for 60 seconds. But my tracker showed that C10 still had five stops less than completing its journey. The driver demonstrated bravely against the worst that London could throw it at it, but the arrival of five minutes late due to road works on the Rethethe Peninsula (which was by coincidence, is one distant to the Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula in terms of tourism bliss).
When I explained that I had beaten him, for the entire length of the journey, he smiled gentlely. Perhaps he was thinking: “Is £ 1.75 actually too much for the ride of the bus?” Or: “Anyone who needs to get Canadian water from Victoria in a hurry, the district line can take two stops in Westminster, then Jubilee Line, and in less than 20 minutes.”
Still a bus which is not enough in the first flush of the youth, can be a footpath on foot: what is going on?
The head of Phil Gerhart, TFL’s bus performance management, told me that C10 “plays an important role in connecting communities between local shops and services between Victoria and Canada, as well as tubes, overground and national railway services”.
He said: “We continue to look at the methods of improvement in service, now to improve plans to improve our performance and credibility for new vehicles with a new program.”
Phil said that one and 15 miles of new bus lane has been set to complete by the end of this year.
Now, about that tram …
Simon Calder, also known as The Man Hu Pe Rits Hair Way, has been writing about The Independent for the Independent since 1994. In his weekly opinion column, he examines a major travel issue – and what does it mean to you