Silly Routes Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Hackathon Toronto Sat Apr 28

[Andrew Black]

Chris Devers wrote:

> 
> My favorite is trying to plan routes around the Boston Harbor Islands:
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=georges+island,+boston,+ma&daddr=lovell+island,+boston,+ma&layer=&sll=42.300421,-70.929794&sspn=0.100303,0.193462&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=42.296485,-70.938377&spn=0.200618,0.386925&t=h&om=1

The classic misroute I have come across - I wanted to go from East 
Dulwich to Leatherhead via Waterloo. I asked Deutsche Bahn (this is pre 
National Rail site).

   East Dulwich -> London Bridge -> Waterloo East ->
   Waterloo International -> Brussels -> Waterloo (in Belgium)
   back same way to Waterloo and eventually to Leatherhead.

National Rail once gave me times of a trains roughly like

   A->B  leaves 14:00 and 14:30 , arrives at 14:30 and 15:00
Alternative
   A->C->B leaves 14:01, wait at C for half hour and arrive B at 14:59
In the unlikely event you get there between 14:00 and 01 you save one 
minute. Woohoo