XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 20/01/2014 6:15 pm, Greg Goss wrote:   
   > Robert Bannister  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> According to "journey planner", my nearest bus stop is 304 metres away,   
   >> and that does not seem very far. In fact, there is one slightly closer,   
   >> but Journey Planner does not consider that an appropriate bus even   
   >> though it goes to the same place. A hundred feet doesn't seem very far.   
   >> Some people must have front gardens larger than that.   
   >   
   > My nearest bus stop is 280 metres away, according to Google Maps.  But   
   > Google doesn't expect me to use them.  Just about any trip plan using   
   > transit on Google Maps involves walking to my local train station 650   
   > metres away.   
      
   Some of these "journey planners" provided by city transport authorities   
   are quite fun. While I was at my sister's in Adelaide over Christmas, I   
   wanted to go to a party at a friend's place near the coast. The planner   
   insisted on sending me by way of two buses, which would have taken well   
   over an hour and a half.   
      
   Knowing the bus took 15 minutes to the city and that the train to my   
   friend's place took about 20 minutes, all I really needed was the train   
   times, so I enter my details again, but this time I specified train   
   only. The plan began: "Walk 92 minutes to Adelaide train station...".   
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)