If you are in London, you know what I am referring to. The lifeline of this metro is not working over the weekend. They call it "Transforming your tubes". Problem is, it's the weekend when we want to visit places in central London and the tube lines are closed. Especially Jubilee and Circle lines. You will have to plan your travel and add up about 30 - 45 minutes. But that also shows our dependency on this network. I must appreciate this network built in 1863 and maintained so far and responsible for making Londoners' life easy. There might be other networks that might be better than this one. However, maintaining something so long has its own challenges. Even the youngest line (Jubilee) on this network is 40 years old, older than me. :-) So I think this maintenance is essential to keep this lifeline up and running during the peak hours of week days. I found an interesting information while browsing internet. Even though this is called underground, 55% of the trains travel overground. :-)
However complicated it may look like, but traveling in tube is easy and fun. If you keep your eyes open and read the boards and instructions carefully, you will not get lost at all and reaching destination is not a challenge. You will have to try hard to get lost in the city. Get used to colour coding and directions and you can plan your travel just like that.
DLR is another experience. You cannot imagine how fun it is to sit on first seat of train and get feeling of yourself driving it. So go for it and experience travel in this network.
On a side note, even though there is planned maintenance, I have plans to travel to central London today (on the weekend) in the tubes to celerate Independence Day of India in England.
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I feel nostalgic. Left UK in 2005. But still miss it.
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