New London Bridge House - "The Place" | Southwark | 88m | 18 fl | T/O

[wawd]

Originally Posted by Light Parade

Junk photo, but I was excited to note tonight how the new Thameslink viaduct will wrap around The Place, with trains just a few feet from the office windows.

I love that sort of close-contact urbanism - think of the El in Chicago, by comparison.

and perhaps Pan Peninsula and the DLR:


(best pic i could find)

[Light Parade]

Absolutely - good example slightly closer to home!

[MatthewGen]

Still a long way until you can compare it to the beautiful Chicago loop

[cybertect]

A selection of pics from the last week.

[tigerman]

Originally Posted by cybertect

Are these the worst designed bus shelters in the world?

[Core Rising]

Originally Posted by tigerman

Are these the worst designed bus shelters in the world?

What makes you say that? I like the look of them.

[CarMadMike]

Are they designed to look like the canopies at the bottom of the shard?

If so, very well thought out.

[The Shard Baby]

Yes they are, they have the same 'white tape' lines going through the glass, like someone is writting a morse code message on the glass, but only hitting with dashes.

[bertyboy]

Originally Posted by tigerman

Are these the worst designed bus shelters in the world?

It seems to be the fashion now to design shelters which allow the free movement of people around them rather than providing shelter per se. I was on the Manchester Metrolink this week, and the shelters there are the same - more a rain canopy than anything.

One thing I am surprised by is the lack of PIDs showing when the next bus is. It really annoys me when these are missing in this day and age.

[cybertect]

Two things I can think of in that point

A) most of the routes that use London Bridge bus station terminate there, so electronic indicators may not be so necessary as buses ought to be departing on schedule

B) it ain't finished yet

[shard97]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukz45/6...in/photostream
Camputer 9 fail

[TRaji00]

Originally Posted by cybertect

A) most of the routes that use London Bridge bus station terminate there, so electronic indicators may not be so necessary as buses ought to be departing on schedule

Indeed. Apart from a night route (or two?), all buses that serve the bus station terminate there.

[tigerman]

Originally Posted by Core Rising

What makes you say that? I like the look of them.

They look great but if there is any wind and rain they are not going to shelter anybody - unless you can guarantee the wind will only ever blow from one direction.

[bertyboy]

Originally Posted by TRaji00

Indeed. Apart from a night route (or two?), all buses that serve the bus station terminate there.

So you can't catch a bus *from* London Bridge?

[cybertect]

Well, they do offer protection on the north side, which is the direction of wind that you're going to be most concerned about.

It's pretty much the same standard of shelter as at Victoria bus station offers since they replaced the 1960s over-all roof was demolished afew years ago.

image hosted on flickr

Victoria Bus Station by Kentishman, on Flickr

[Cat man do]

Originally Posted by bertyboy

So you can't catch a bus *from* London Bridge?

Yup its like a large version of those coin slide machines in amusement arcades. The buses all bunch up until the pressure is too high and a few fall into the Thames.

[SE9]

Originally Posted by bertyboy

So you can't catch a bus *from* London Bridge?

In other words you can... the London Bridge bus station serves as the first and last stop for all routes that use it.

Other routes that don't terminate or start from London Bridge don't use the bus station.

[bertyboy]

Originally Posted by SE9

In other words you can... the London Bridge bus station serves as the first and last stop for all routes that use it.

Other routes that don't terminate or start from London Bridge don't use the bus station.

OK, ok. But surely routes that start here are still subject to delays if it's the turnback of a bus route that has arrived here? Therefore PIDs would still be useful.

[Cranesetc]

[NCT]

Originally Posted by bertyboy

OK, ok. But surely routes that start here are still subject to delays if it's the turnback of a bus route that has arrived here? Therefore PIDs would still be useful.

There's usually quite a bit of stand time, so it'd be highly unusual to have no buses on stand whatsoever. Although fleets are standardised wherever possible, different buses still stray onto wrong routes, and they have (slightly) different lengths and door positions, so PIDs are not all that straightforward to implement.