Cardiff Overground

Garion · Post by **Garion** » 05 Sep 2006, 00:13

Does anybody fancy doing the Cardiff Overground?
In other words, travelling on all bus services shown on the overground map and in the shortest time (obviously lol)

http://www.cardiffbus.com/services/maps/cardiff.htm

Starkey7 · Post by **Starkey7** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:01

I'm doing the same thing in London and it's taken a couple of months so far...

londongirl · Post by **londongirl** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:04

Starkey7 wrote:I'm doing the same thing in London and it's taken a couple of months so far...

how many bus routes does that include? and do you include Night Buses as they can extend further sometimes? I imagine there must be a good 100 or so routes. ..

Garion · Post by **Garion** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:08

The map shows 19 different bus routes but it's a bit different compared to the Underground map.
Where as each colour on the Underground map would represent a different line, each colour on the Cardiff map can represent up to 4 different bus routes.
Have a look at the link
http://www.cardiffbus.com/services/maps/cardiff.htm

Starkey7 · Post by **Starkey7** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:11

And in London there are about five hundred routes! I'm not counting night buses or school buses, because I'm not that crazy. But here's an example:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma1jas/london201-220.doc

Garion · Post by **Garion** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:14

Cardiff Bus have recently withdrawn the night bus services so be thankful for that!! lol

And of course London would have about 500. It's bloody huge

londongirl · Post by **londongirl** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:16

Doing London must be time consuming and rather tiring! If you ever want a bit of company on that [though I have to say my insanity doesn't stretch to the London bus network] I might be happy for a few bus rides.

If Cardiff Overground involves more than one route for each section do you have to do each bus for each "line" or just complete the stops?

Garion · Post by **Garion** » 05 Sep 2006, 01:20

Just the stops I think. It does seem silly going over the same stretch of road on 4 different buses or something.

sweek · Post by **sweek** » 05 Sep 2006, 12:20

Starkey7 wrote:because I'm not that crazy

Yes. Yes you are.

43019 · Post by **43019** » 05 Sep 2006, 13:21

Cardiff Bus Challenge, I daresay that would be interesting! It would take a long time, and you'd have to be starting early to ensure it's all done!

As for when several routes converge and use the same street(s) for an amount of time/distance, I would count them all done on that section, much like I do with bus routes in the rest of the country. Obviously I'd make sure I did the other routes when they split off.

It's something I'd consider anyway.

Garion · Post by **Garion** » 05 Sep 2006, 14:09

Sounds good. I wish you luck for when you do it.

Anyone else interested?

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