{"id":116,"date":"2007-09-11T16:17:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-11T16:17:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:17:27","slug":"route-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Route learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today nine of us went route learning from Winchester to Birmingham.  This new Megabus route starts on Monday 1 October.  The first section from Winchester to the Water Eaton Park and Ride car park in Oxford, where the Megabus stop is located, was simple enough.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/coventry_cannon_park.gif\" title=\"following stop\">following stop<\/a> is near to Warwick University in Coventry which is still not too difficult to remember, the route we took today doesn&#8217;t appear to be the most direct to me so I may experiment a bit when driving it.  After that it&#8217;s Birmingham International Airport.  I had wondered how many passengers a coach from the South Coast to Birmingham Airport would carry, but when we got there I realised why we&#8217;re stopping there &#8211; more to service the NEC (National Exhibition Centre) than the airport I think!  The <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/birmingham_queensway.gif\" title=\"final stop\">final stop<\/a> is in the centre of Birmingham and there would appear to be an infinite number of routes from the airport to the centre of Birmingham.  They all would appear to be straightforward but the big gamble will be guessing which is the least congested on any day at any time?<\/p>\n<p>The trip up to Birmingham was run near enough at the timetabled time so we probably experienced typical traffic conditions, it wasn&#8217;t too bad.  However, we returned almost immediately rather than waiting until the late afternoon timetable departure time.  How the traffic conditions will vary in real life we&#8217;ll see later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today nine of us went route learning from Winchester to Birmingham. This new Megabus route starts on Monday 1 October. The first section from Winchester to the Water Eaton Park and Ride car park in Oxford, where the Megabus stop is located, was simple enough. The following stop is near to Warwick University in Coventry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}