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Travelling in London

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

TFL have quietly introduced a few cool tools recently, forming the backbone of my 5 top tips for travelling round London efficiently:

  1. You can go to the Oystercard Shop and set your Oystercard* to auto top up from your credit/debit card whenever it drops below £5. No more queueing to top up as the last train departs.
  2. It's quicker to walk between some stations. Well we all know that, but which ones? This map shows all stations that are within 500m of each other. Here's a compendium of tube map versions while we're at it.
  3. Fed up of the slow online journey planner? Use the PDA version instead. (Thanks Nik.)
  4. You can get updates texted or mailed to you when lines you use are affected by repair work with the TFL travel alert service.
  5. And if you're too late for the tube it's night busses or minicabs. Where can you get the number of the local minicab from though? Why, TFL of course. This mobile service will return you the text of a licences firm near where you are right now. Summary: HOME to 60835.
* I won't bother saying get an Oystercard - whatever your concerns about privacy it's too much of a cash benefit to eschew.

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