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Comment by rahimnathwani | Hacker News Reader

This site is really nice to use.

Does anyone know where it gets data on walking routes?

There is a train station near where I used to live. Google Maps correctly identifies it as being 11 mins' away by foot. The TfL site thinks it's 23 mins away by bus, so never includes it in any suggested routes, instead showing my multiple-leg journeys by bus and tube.

Is there a place to report errors or 'I found a faster route'?

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Can you send me a link to the journey planner results? There is no specific way to contribute improvements to the results, best way for now would be to leave feedback through the form in the title bar of the new website.

Edit: You also might get some mileage out of setting your walking speed to "Fast" and selecting "Routes with fewest changes"

Choosing 'fast walking' and 'routes with fewest changes' sort of worked, but it still shows a walking route which doesn't use the pedestrian-only bridge:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/results?IsAsync=true&Jp...

Even with the fast walking, they seem to have employed a slow walker to measure this. My walk to work I can do in 35 mins, which isn't at a terribly fast pace, but even TfL's fastest option reports it as taking 44mins http://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/results?IsAsync=true&Jp...

I don't know about now, but historically I've found TfL uses a slower walking speed than Google Maps.

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