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Weekend travel in the Capital

Welcome to weekend travel in a city of roughly 7 million people (and don’t forget the tourists).  Some of whom may actually want to travel by tube without having to change lines three times or catch multiple replacement buses.

The forecast for this weekend:

• Bakerloo – Good Service
• Central – Part closure
• Circle - Good Service
• District – Part closure
• Hammersmith and City – Part closure
• Jubilee – Part closure
• Metropolitan – Part closure
• Northern – Good Service
• Piccadilly – Good Service
• Victoria – Planned closure
• Waterloo and City – Planned closure

Note this doesn’t take into account station closures for refurbishment or anything else that might go wrong in the mean time (I  mean, there’s a whole other day till these planned closures start).  It’s a good thing I’m going to spend most of Saturday walking through London – here’s hoping the Bakerloo will still be going to get me back to the south side of the river, because after that it’s rail replacement buses all the way.

The tally so far…

• Squirrels: 6 (although I may have seen the one across the road twice, Regents Park, Hyde Park)
• Rats: 1 (Regents Park)
• Men in straw boater hats: 3 (Borough Market, Central line tube, Camden)
• Men in velvet top hats: 1 (Camden)
• Famous people: 1 (but I’ve seen them twice – Camden)
• Hyenas: 3 (Regents canal towpath by the Zoo)
• Invitations to take a ‘personality test’ while outside a Scientology Centre: 1 (Tottenham Court Road)

London travel tip

The top of the escalator leading to the Jubilee line at Waterloo is not the place to stop and have a discussion about whether or not you want to get on the escalator.  See all these people streaming around you into that tiny space you’ve left and getting on the escalator?  You’re in their way.