Morning! behind me
Whietchapel, Whitechapel tube station
out in Zone 2 in East London
for mayn years dating back to 2016
an off-peak tube fare would always costs you £1.50
slightly more in the peak
a peak, or off-peak bus fare
would always cost you £1.50
generally, there's this belief that tube journeys
are more expensive than bus journeys
but there, there's an amazing anomalie
where the Tube, is now cheaper than the bus
yes back in March ealier this year
the cost of a bus fare rose by 5 pence
from £1.50 to £1.55
no matter what the time of day
tube fares however, in the peak before 09.30
were quite expensive, but what was good
was that single off-peak journey
anywhere within zones 2 to 6
also only used to cost just £1.50
but with this years price increases
that price has now gone up to £1.60
if you travel across two zones
of £1.70 if you travel in three or more zones
but here's the brilliant anomalie
if you're taking a tube journey that stays within one zone
it is STILL only £1.50
and so for a single zone journey
it is now 5p cheaper to go on the Underground
that it is on the bus
and I just had to try this out
so i hopped on a 25 bus
outside of Whitechapel station
and headed east along the Bow Road
you go past Stepney Green station
through Mile End
Bow Road and Bow Church
past the flyover
and then eventually left down to bus station at Stratford
let's see how long that's taken
and more importantly, confirm how much it's cost
so getting off the number 25 theret
the No.25 used to be, err London's
busiest and most popular bus route
but then they cut it back a few years ago
so it no longer goes to Oxford Circus so that's not the cas
but I disgress, it's 11:39
which means, it's taken me
exactly hald an hour
to do Whitechapel, Zone 2
to Stratford, Zone 2, b bus
and outside Stratford station
are some of the new swanky style ticket machines
a quick tap of your Oyster to bring up your journey history
reveals that yup - it's correctly cost me £1.55
time to whizz back to Whitechapel
so ... part two of my journey
came back to Whitechapel, it's now 12:22
i'll tap in, use the same Oyster card
how quickly can i do the journey, and how much will it cost me?
and this time, we're going by tube
which means taking the District line for two stops
then changing onto the Central line
and you ride that, for just one stop to take you back to Stratford
ok, there's the little train, back outside Stratford station
twice on one day! tapped out with the same Oyster card
looked at the balance
as you saw on the watch as i came in it was 12:32
exactly ten minutes, add one a couple of minutes to get outside
back to the bus sation to make it fair
is still only 12 minutes, so it's 12 minutes on the Tube
and it's half an hour to take the bus
and due to that strange anomalie
that now exists, that yes if you travel just one zone
one the tube, it is £1.50 whereas on the bus
the same journey is £1.55
so that is 5p more expensive
and takes twice as long to go by bus
another little side note to note is that when CrossElizPurp finally opens up
hoping it's early next year, you can make that same journey
from Whitechapel to Stratford in just one stop it'll be like 6/7 minutes
so it'll be even quicker, whether that £1.50 fare still exists or not
will have to remain ... to be seen
my only other thought is are there any other journies like this
i chose this one from looking at a map of London
because i think that Whitechapel to Stratford
is like the longest journey you can do within one zone
i would be intruiged to know, please ... put it in the comments
if you think there are any other quite lenght journeys
within one zone
that you can do on the tube, that is quicker
and 5p ... cheaper, than the bus
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