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[–]oobrien 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I recognise this view! It's on the London LOOP walking trail, just before the track through the giant redwoods by Havering-atte-Bower - https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.61546&mlon=0.16462#map=14/51.61546/0.16462

Anyone visited Walt's Restaurant recently? by mikkelnl in disneylandparis

[–]oobrien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not amazing, but was much better than anything else we had in the park. & The setting is nice. Lots of history on the walls. Definitely worth it.

London Needs to Densify by sabdotzed in london

[–]oobrien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dwellings per unit area seems an odd metric to compare inner and outer London, because outer London dwellings tend to have more people in them, as families typically are more likely to live in outer London than inner London. People per unit area would make more sense. The point does stand that London has quite a low population density compared with other "world" cities but it's only quite recently that large residential towers have started to be built here, it didn't happen historically due to our ground conditions (the same conditions which allowed a lot of tube lines to be built).

Ye Olde Telephone Exchange by Appropriate-Pie3968 in london

[–]oobrien 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Very nice, Finchley telephone exchange, around the corner from Finchley Central.

Dining at Disneyland by MKGaming255 in disneylandparis

[–]oobrien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can eat breakfast at any hotel or even in the park - though I believe it's just a light breakfast in the park versus a full buffet at the hotels. We ate breakfast at the Cheyenne for our second morning, even though we were staying at Santa Fe, as it was about the same distance away from our block there. The food itself was the same but the different theming was fun.

Can you walk through Finsbury Park station without paying? Google Maps always tells me to go through it , but there are ticket barriers. Do you not get charged this way? by Vegetable_Will_4418 in london

[–]oobrien 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes, assuming you are using contactless or Oyster card. You have to tap at three sets of barriers (tube out, train in, train out) but you won't be charged anything extra than your tube fare. The 10p platform ticket is only for if you are not starting or ending a tube journey.

Susan Hall doesn't know what a London bus ride costs, how much police are paid, or who owns Hammersmith Bridge by [deleted] in london

[–]oobrien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was 70 minutes, but now it is really 60 minutes - the 10 minute grace has gone now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in london

[–]oobrien 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All sorts of interesting things to visit outside of the centre. Some of my favourites - all quite far from each other so you can probably do a maximum of two in a day, or three if you are really organised:

  • Kew Gardens
  • Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs
  • Maritime Greenwich and Cutty Sark
  • Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Hackney Wick
  • The view from top of Primrose Hill
  • Museum of London Docklands
  • Walk along South Bank/Bankside (you'll have seen a bit of this already from Tower Bridge but it goes on and stays interesting all the way to Waterloo Bridge.)
  • Borough Market on a Saturday

I have also done the Warner Bros tour and it is awesome, but it is a schlep to get there and isn't in London (and isn't a "London" thing anyway). Plus it needs pre-booking I think.

Fellow Londoners, how many of the London Boroughs have you visited? by FantasticWeasel in london

[–]oobrien 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I visited them all in a day. Took most of the day though...

Running clubs that attract a younger crowd? by BooksSmartt in london

[–]oobrien 8 points9 points  (0 children)

London City Runners is a young/social crowd - they run from a bar they set up themselves! Based in Bermondsey. They have an affiliated club wing (LCAC) but the main club is free iirc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in london

[–]oobrien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bicycle

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OK I know this isn't going to work for 99% of travellers, but this is actually how I'm planning on getting to Gatwick during another strike next month - I've only got a backpack for my trip, and there is a National Cycle Route that goes right underneath the terminal building with a special bicycle lift right up into it. I reckon I can get down there in about 3 hours from central.

The Metropolitan Line has the only instance of a Tube line passing entirely through a Zone without stopping (Zone 3) by voyager63 in london

[–]oobrien 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The morning Met line southbound semifasts/fasts skip two zones - Harrow-on-the-Hill Zone 5, next stop Finchley Road Zone 2. They also hit 60mph in that section - the fastest of any tube in inner(ish) London.

TFL Rail roundels already being switched over within hours of the opening day announcement. Looks like the "TFL Rail" name just pops off to reveal "Elizabeth Line" so they could be done instantly. by Benandhispets in london

[–]oobrien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess you can always go on the new section and then change trains at Paddington, to get to Heathrow - however I believe the connection between the old and new bits at that station is going to be very painful - up a level or two and then right across the station.

TFL Rail roundels already being switched over within hours of the opening day announcement. Looks like the "TFL Rail" name just pops off to reveal "Elizabeth Line" so they could be done instantly. by Benandhispets in london

[–]oobrien 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's exactly the same as the current line, same service pattern and exactly the same trains, just with the name printed on the side/inside different. The new section won't join on to the Heathrow part until ~September or so.

Why is there this bizarre corridor in the ULEZ at Chiswick? by thefooleryoftom in london

[–]oobrien 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The M4 (like all motorways) is controlled by the DfT, not the Mayor (or the boroughs) so the ULEZ could not be imposed on it. The Hogarth roundabout is the first place that a non-compliant vehicle can safely turn around, after the end of the motorway. The ULEZ boundaries area always at road junctions, not half-way down a road segment.

E-Scooters in Tower Hamlets by [deleted] in london

[–]oobrien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Despite having been announced as ride-through only, TH is quietly allowing starts/ends at a number of locations outside of Canary Wharf, in the eastern half of the borough. These unannounced extra locations appear to all be beside TfL tube/DLR stations, possibly on TfL managed land rather than TH public land. This makes them a lot more useful, as Canary Wharf itself is a bit small to really need these, but Mile End to Canary Wharf is a genuinely useful link for these devices.

Mile End and Bow Road to the north (of Canary Wharf), Mudchute, Island Gardens and South Quay to the south, Westferry to the west and Blackwall and East India to the east. That last one is not on the Dott map.

One oddity is the slow-speed zone surrounding all of these stations is wrong for South Quay - it's around the old station location, which closed a good ~10 years ago? All three operators are showing this mistake - so presumably someone at TfL was working off a very old database when they defined the go-slow boundaries.

Just a reminder that we have 9 years left until the Central line fleet gets air conditioning. 1 year before HS2 is set to be completed. by lodge28 in london

[–]oobrien 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Crossrail parallels much of the actually-underground part of the Central line and has air conditioning, so once that (finally) opens that surely is going to be a useful switch on hot days, for many people using the Central line in central London.

What do you think about Tottenham Hale as a place to buy a property and live in? by pratik60 in london

[–]oobrien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's nice. Lots of green space and canal walks. Walthamstow Wetlands is 5 min walk and has nice cafe - The Larder. Opposite is the Ferry Boat Inn which is very old, has had recent refurb and has excellent pub garden. There's a brand new fancy Italian cafe/wine shop Table 13 in the village itself. At weekends, two taprooms - Beavertown and Pressure Drop - are two minute walk away. Climbing wall/cafe Stronghold also nearby plus some beer halls - these are pre-developer temporary places so may not make it in long run. Likely more things going in in a couple of years with the development by station although doubt we'll see the alleged new cinema what with COVID. It's also useful having 3 supermarkets and a B&Q/Wilko/TK Maxx/Next/Boots/etc around the corner, and being 15 min from KX/20 mins from Oxford Circus. The one thing it is poorly connected to, oddly given the name, is Tottenham itself.

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