It's lazy journalism because it's published pretty much every year. But it is the summer season, the heat is making the tube really unappealling, and so understandable.
Indeed. It’s probably a myth, but I’ve heard there was an interview question which was ‘how would you get from Regent’s Park station to Great Portland St station if Baker St station is closed?’
In my experience, very few do Blackfriars to City (although it is a reasonable walk from the south end of Blackfriars to the Holborn end of City).
However there is a lot of Farringdon <> City, which I guess is people hopping off the Circle / Met aiming for the Ludgate end of City.
lol I know you know City isn't on the tube network!
A lot of people still don't realise about the south end of Blackfriars (majority of taxi drivers have no idea, for example). Getting a train from south BFR to north CTK would still involve a long walk as you need to walk up the platform
I've known tourists do and ask about tube from Moorgate to Bank on the circle line (!!). This is a ten minute walk and significantly longer by tube. The square mile part of the tube map is particularly deceptive about distance between stations. I've known people change for the Northern line between Moorgate and Bank too - which given the trek down to them doesn't make a lot of sense.
The North/South corridors of Blackfriars - Farringdon, and London Bridge - Old Street can often by quicker, or at least better in the summer by bus.
This isn't true for East/West journeys following the gutting that TfL did to these corridors. Using the busses for a quick hop is increasingly impractical as you'd need to change, or they don't connect up to the train network.
