17th February 2008
Great day out
The new face lift at the London Transport Museum has certainly given the place a whole new light - literally. No longer dark and claustrophobic but open and light and easy to find your away around.
Visiting on a Sunday during half term, there were alot of kids there, but it never felt overly packed, or even too noisy. Spread over aground floor and two mezzanine style floors, the noise gets lost in the height, and lots of specialist kiddy areas seemed to keep small children occupied and out of the way.
The cafe, whilst possibly a bit small, was well priced, and the chips, as I seem to be obsessed by, were amazing! They were chips as I remember them from my childhood, made with real potatoes and obviously twice fried. Heaven!
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I enjoyed my first visit here but felt that the chronology could have been improved.
It was poor on historical progression and better signing might have helped. That being said, there are some very interesting exhibits. As a Londoner growing up with trolley buses, routemasters and, of course, the "Misery Line" (as the Northern line was affectionately known), I found the London Transport Museum a walk down memory lane. One thing: there is a an Orwellian notice suggesting that Ken Livingstone made a significant contribution with his "Transport for London". Apart from the Oyster Card, he did very little. The congestion charge actually caused congestion as the tubes had to cope with the hundreds of thousands of extra passengers driven off the roads by his new tax. Perhaps making the roads of London the exclusive preserve of hedge fund managers and corporate fat cats (and of course government ministers) is a good thing. History will be the judge.