{"id":9823,"date":"2012-10-11T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2012-10-11T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:49:59","slug":"victoria-line-completely-closed-this-weekend-13-14-oct-2012-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/victoria-line-completely-closed-this-weekend-13-14-oct-2012-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Line completely closed this weekend (13-14 Oct 2012). AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7910\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-tube-closures-explained-31st-mar1st-april-and-6th7th-may-2012\/brixton-tube-closures-2012\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brixton-tube-closures-2012.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,414\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"brixton-tube-closures-2012\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brixton-tube-closures-2012.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7910\" title=\"brixton-tube-closures-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brixton-tube-closures-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton tube closures: 31st Mar\/1st April and 6th\/7th May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brixton-tube-closures-2012.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brixton-tube-closures-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Expect tons of disruption if you&#8217;re travelling to and from Brixton this weekend (Sat 13th\/Sunday 14th October) as once again the utter bastards at Tfl have decided to close a vast chunk of the Victoria Line down for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s going to be closed the<em> following weekend<\/em> too. Raaas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9826\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/victoria-line-completely-closed-this-weekend-13-14-oct-2012-again\/brixton-tube-closure-2012\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brixton-tube-closure-2012.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,372\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Victoria Line completely closed this weekend (13-14 Oct 2012). AGAIN!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brixton-tube-closure-2012.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9826\" title=\"Victoria Line completely closed this weekend (13-14 Oct 2012). AGAIN!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brixton-tube-closure-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Line completely closed this weekend (13-14 Oct 2012). AGAIN!\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brixton-tube-closure-2012.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brixton-tube-closure-2012-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be no service at all\u00a0between Brixton and Seven Sisters this weekend, so if you&#8217;re leaving Brixton expect another leisurely replacement bus tour around St Matthews Church amongst glacier-speed traffic.<\/p>\n<p>My advice: take the\u00a0overground\u00a0train from Brixton to Victoria (it takes just 7 mins) and continue your journey from there, or walk up to Stockwell tube station and pick up a tube from there.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk\/user\/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en\" target=\"_blank\">TfL&#8217;s Journey Planner<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0more options.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s TfL&#8217;s\u00a0statement\u00a0on the closures:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October<\/strong>, no service between Brixton and Seven Sisters. Rail replacement buses operate.<\/p>\n<p>Bus Service: Brixton &#8211; Vauxhall &#8211; Pimlico &#8211;\u00a0Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Bus\u00a0Service:\u00a0Seven Sisters &#8211; Manor House (for the Piccadilly Line).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 October<\/strong>, no service between Brixton and Highbury &amp; Islington. Rail replacement buses operate.<\/p>\n<p>Bus service: Brixton &#8211;\u00a0Vauxhall &#8211; Pimlico\u00a0&#8211; Victoria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/tfl\/livetravelnews\/realtime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transport for London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect tons of disruption if you&#8217;re travelling to and from Brixton this weekend (Sat 13th\/Sunday 14th October) as once again the utter bastards at Tfl have decided to close a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[1191,145],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-tube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brixton-tube-closures-20121.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}