Public transport for London
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Public transport for London
I'm shortly off for my every-few-years short trip to London. I was trying to load my iPad/phone with the stuff that everywhere has, like the RATP app in Paris, to get from A to B. I can remember, though not perfectly efficiently, how to do it, but my sister can't, having never lived there. Am I just being dumb, or there is really no good free app?
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Thanks. I've since discovered that TFL's policy is to have a website but no "official" app. Instead they make their data open-source, and let other people build apps on top (some 200 of them, apparently). That's very worthy of them, in some lights, but a faff when I am spending 48 hours there. And even more so if I were, say, a monoglot Latvian speaker, and didn't know one end of London from another.neil mitchell wrote:Transport for London (TfL) journey planner. It is very useful.
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Oh yes, I see what you mean, looking at it again I have always used it on my phone on 4g but via google chrome. It still works a treat though, you only have to put in a landmark or street name for start and finish and it gives very accurate information. I never used buses in London but now I use them all of the time.
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Thanks. It was very useful. I was surprised how many things I thought I knew weren't working as they used to. Mostly because of works on Crossrail, but also, around London Bridge, for more sombre reasons.neil mitchell wrote:Oh yes, I see what you mean, looking at it again I have always used it on my phone on 4g but via google chrome. It still works a treat though, you only have to put in a landmark or street name for start and finish and it gives very accurate information. I never used buses in London but now I use them all of the time.
Incidentally, it was really useful to get data for nowt on a French phone. Remind me again, what did the EU ever do for us?