London Underground

- whisking you wherever you need to go. Though, when it grinds to a halt, it’s terrible as everything gets backed up and if you’re unlucky, you’re underground with lots of cross people in an overly warm carriage. If you’re doubly unlucky, you’re standing wedged next to the person who has a cold or cough, but no tissue. Yeuch.

London is so big, the Tube is really the only efficient way to get across town. Cycling – forget it, not enough cycle lanes and too much ground to cover unless you work locally. Buses – much better for sightseeing, but unlike the Tube, it’s often hard to work out where you have to get off!

very efficient & dead-easy to understand connections. (color coded!)

A great way to get around London on a budget. And the next time your exiting a train at night alone on the platform, don’t forget that scene in American Werewolf in London.

GET A DAY PASS!!! It costs £5.10 for a day pass that will let you travel all over with the tube and all over on the busses. it will save your feet and your time:)

It’s not as fun as the double decker buses are but it’s a much faster way to get around London esp if you have a lot of sightseeing planned.

But it’s very convenient. I used to have a bf who was terrified of riding on the tube, and so I can appreciate how nice it is to be able to use it now!

The tube is a great way to get around London. It’s much more expensive than NYC’s system and not as complex, but I wouldn’t choose to get around London any other way!

People get all territorial and neurotic, there is always engineering work going, it is slow, overcrowded, dirty, smelly and claustrophobical. I have to take the bloody underground every day to get to work, and everytime I touch my card in the turnstiles it reminds me of how expensive it is to travel in the underground. Ah, and you alwyas take the risk of being blown -up when you are inside the tube, especially when it is going under the Thames. It is indeed a daredevil act to get yourself into the London Underground every day really.

I recommend cycling to work instead, and should start doing that myself, once I move closer to the city centre.

for getting around.

I bought Union Jack socks from a socks shop in the Underground, and a lovely little amber necklace from a cart vendor, back in ‘96 when I visited.