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No such thing as a free lunch? How about a free bus?

Kingmug’s transport-related post yesterday got me thinking. As he accurately pointed out, traveling on the tube is frankly one of the most soul-destroying things that you have to do in your life. In fact, traveling on the tube is pretty much in my top 5 worst phenomena. For information, my other worst things are 1) lack of World peace/sorting out poverty/global warming/other eminently important stuff 2) getting out of bed in winter 3) lack of lulz (see picture) 4) losing socks.

Image courtesy of http://orly.yarly.org/

ANYWAY…as part of my New Year’s Resolutions I’ve decided to solve all of my top 5 worst things in the World. My answer for the tube problem is simply the bus. OK, that might sound obvious…but wait…there are these new fangled ‘bendy buses’ that let you get on without paying which is totally FOR THE WIN! (Obviously I always pay, being an upstanding citizen and all).

So using both my knowledge of the ‘free buses’ and my unbelievable computer skills, I’ve created this little baby to help you guys get around London for free. If you know any other free buses, drop me a line and I’ll add them to my sophisticated graphic somehow…

***UPDATE!!!11!!one!!

In response to the comment regarding bus users, I deployed my crack team of statisticians, economists and etch-a-sketchers and they have confirmed the commenter’s suspicions…

4 Comments

• On 01.07.08 sarah wrote these pithy words:

  Awesome, all my transport issues solved.

  Apart from the fact that at least you know what station you end up at with the Tube – the buses often give ridiculously broad destinations. For example, buses to/from Liverpool Street might be using stops in a half mile radius of the station (labelled j-z with about five letters missing).

  Which is a big fail, considering buses are largely the resort of the drunk and/or illiterate.

• On 01.07.08 chairmanmeow wrote these pithy words:

  The one prerequisite of winning (where winning is using the bus)is being able to identify where the bus is at any given time. This is a common prerequisite of other discretion-based forms of transport such as walking, driving etc.

  I appreciate that autonomy is largely rejected in our nanny-state which does make using forms of transport such as the bus a seemingly gargantuan task.

  I holeheartly agree with you’re comment about the drrunks and iliterates. In fact, I’d like someone to product a Venn Diagram to show the correlation.

• On 02.11.08 sarah wrote these pithy words:

  Counterpoint: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7238711.stm

  (So, yeah, you could countercounterpoint with the whole bombs thing…)

• On 02.11.08 chairmanmeow wrote these pithy words:

  Countercounterpoint: if you see the roof getting ripped off the bus, just duck… durrrrrr

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