Journey Planner weirdness

[gasman]

I guess you lot will probably appreciate this:

• Go to the TfL journey planner
• Enter Great Portland Street as the starting point, Aldgate East as the destination
• Specify a time when that bit of the tube is actually running (i.e. not tonight)
• Look at one of the tube results
• Spot the deliberate mistake...

(Yes, I've let them know about this via the 'contact us' form...)

[CrunchySaviour]

It suggests that you take the Tube towards Baker Street. How very bizarre! I can't see many people being fooled by that, though.

[Munks]

I downloaded to my mobile phone the journey planner from TfL's website, if you enter Kings Cross to Barons Court, you thought it would be simple - just take the Picadilly line. But when it gives you the result funny things happen - the visual aid for the journey uses the blue line as appropriate for the picadilly line but the stations marked are Kings Cross - Euston Square - Great Portland Street - Baker Street - Edgware Road - Paddington - Bayswater - Notting Hill Gate - High Street Kensington - Earls Court - Barons Court!

[Root]

If you tell Journeyplanner to begin your journey just as the network is about to close for the night, it comes up with some strange suggestions.

Such as: Upminster to Chesham leaving after 2330.

2350 - Take a c2c train to West Ham - 0004
0010 - Take a Jubilee line train to Wembley Park - 0100
0536 - Take a Metropolitan line train to Chesham - 0619

So I'm supposed to wait in Wembley Park station for four and a half hours!? At night! I imagine the station staff would try to move me on... "But TFL told me to!" I would protest.