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TFL Bus Spider map of Twickenham

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Hi, I may need to go to the Twickenham area in a couple of months time and for where I need to go, it would be easier to take the bus. However when I looked up spider maps on TFL website for the Twickenham area, it only has the Rugby Ground area rather than the town centre London Road/York & King Streets. Does any one know of there is a spider type map for the town centre ? Thanks.
 
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It's likely that there is, but it's no longer on the TfL website. Lots of the spider maps are no longer available on the website for no apparent reason.
 

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It's likely that there is, but it's no longer on the TfL website. Lots of the spider maps are no longer available on the website for no apparent reason.
I assume that the logic is that because you can create a personalised itinary with the journey planner maps are redundant.
 

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It's likely that there is, but it's no longer on the TfL website. Lots of the spider maps are no longer available on the website for no apparent reason.
I assume that the logic is that because you can create a personalised itinary with the journey planner maps are redundant.

A backwards step - they provide a useful schematic of where buses go in a particular area and where you can connect from one bus to another. If they are going to play the "well you can use a journey planner" card then why don't they go ahead and abolish the tube map as well?
 

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I assume that the logic is that because you can create a personalised itinary with the journey planner maps are redundant.

That assumes you know where you want to go. I like them as a reference of everywhere I can get to on a bus from a particular area. Which is also a problem with the new style spider maps - they no longer show full routes.

I happened to have downloaded the complete set of bus spider maps in early 2015. I've just put them online at https://www.sucs.org/~cmckenna/maps/busspider/2014-15/

Thank you, that's superb!
 

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I happened to have downloaded the complete set of bus spider maps in early 2015. I've just put them online at https://www.sucs.org/~cmckenna/maps/busspider/2014-15/
The Twickenham one is https://www.sucs.org/~cmckenna/maps/busspider/2014-15/twickenham-a4-020614.pdf
Obviously that's out of date, but you can use it as a starting point to check whether your preferred route still operates using the individual bus routes.

Wow, that was a big project that you did. For some reason, probably my computer, although I can get into the first main, index page, I can not open the spider map itself from that or by the direct link.
 

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Wow, that was a big project that you did. For some reason, probably my computer, although I can get into the first main, index page, I can not open the spider map itself from that or by the direct link.
Both options work for me. The maps are pdf files which pretty much any computer should be able to open in some form these days. You could try downloading the linked file and then opening it locally on the computer.
 

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I've also found some older versions in a backup, and they're now at https://www.sucs.org/~cmckenna/maps/busspider/2012-14/ dating between July 2012 and February 2014 (with a couple of other maps from June 2014).

Wow, that was a big project that you did. For some reason, probably my computer, although I can get into the first main, index page, I can not open the spider map itself from that or by the direct link.
That's odd - it works me for me.
You can try via the Internet Archive link - https://web.archive.org/web/20200224093332/https://www.sucs.org/~cmckenna/maps/busspider/2014-15/ but I don't know if that will help.
 

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That assumes you know where you want to go. I like them as a reference of everywhere I can get to on a bus from a particular area. Which is also a problem with the new style spider maps - they no longer show full routes.
I agree, the journey planner may give the quickest journey but a map will show you that one two minutes longer may actually be more convenient.
 
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