{"id":5555,"date":"2017-04-19T14:19:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:34:02","slug":"river-services-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2017\/river-services-map\/","title":{"rendered":"River Services Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2895\" height=\"1001\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full.png 2895w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full-768x266.png 768w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full-1024x354.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2895px) 100vw, 2895px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Londoners will be very familiar with the crowded London Underground services and their famous diagrammatic Tube Map, but might be less familiar with another public transport network &#8211; boats on the River Thames. Yes, you can commute to work by catamaran &#8211; as long as you live and work close to the river. London&#8217;s river services are underused, certainly compared to most other modes of transport in the metropolis, so you have a good chance of a seat, even at at the height of rush hour. Travelling with a view, and much faster than on buses through clogged up streets &#8211; what&#8217;s not to like? You can even use your Oyster card or contactless card to pay for the River Bus services (RB1-6) &#8211; these are the ones shown with solid lines on the map. <\/p>\n<p>Transport for London has produced the map we feature here (<a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_full.png\">see larger version<\/a>), as part of its <a href=\"http:\/\/content.tfl.gov.uk\/river-bus-tours-map.pdf\">London River Services booklet<\/a>. There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/content.tfl.gov.uk\/river-services-map.pdf\">a simpler dedicated map<\/a>, without the details on tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<p>We like the pseudo-tube-map styling, although it could of course be simplified even further, with the Thames just being shown as a straight line. The inclusion of isometric squares showing the major landmarks near each pier is a nice touch. TfL has never really decided whether its river services are for tourists or commuters, but this map should satisfy both.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_detail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"877\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_detail.png 714w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/riverbuses_detail-244x300.png 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Londoners will be very familiar with the crowded London Underground services and their famous diagrammatic Tube Map, but might be less familiar with another public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[419,421,1070,982,1072,204,1071,1073,805,142,185,361],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourist","tag-boat","tag-boats","tag-catamran","tag-commute","tag-rb1","tag-river","tag-river-bus","tag-river-services","tag-river-thames","tag-tfl","tag-thames","tag-transport-for-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions\/5825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}