On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 22:51 +0200, Christoph Reuss wrote: > the agents had followed the Brazilian all the way from his home to > the subway, including a __15-minutes BUS RIDE__ from Tulse Hill Road > to Stockwell. Plenty of time to ignite the "bombs in his coat" in a > crowded bus... > > If he had been a bomber targeting the subway, he surely wouldn't have > taken such a long detour by bus before,
Just a point of fact: South London is hardly served by tube lines, basically just the (gawdawful) Northern Line and the Victoria Line heading south and south westish. Tulse Hill is south of Brixton about 1.5-2 miles, Brixton is the southern terminus of the Victoria Line that goes up through Vicky station, into central London, KingsX, and out to the north east (Tottenham for those of you with long memories of notorious and fatal race riots). If you want a tube, the quickest way is straight down Tulse Hill to Brixton, an, err, 15 minute bus ride outside the peak of the rush hour. What is little realised is that there is quite an extensive network of Southern Region rail stations around Sarf Lunnun. Personally I'd have gone for a train to London Bridge or Victoria as being quicker than a bus. I wonder what would have happened if he had taken that route and not headed for the confined spaces of a crowded tube network? I just used to cycle everywhere in the 80s when an impecunious pressure group campaigner and have seldom used either modes, but know the terrain of large parts of London as well as most taxis! The potential for cyclebombers with some of these fat tubed modern bikes gives one pause for thought... _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
