Gymnázium Viliama Paulinyho – Tótha v Martine Učíme sa nielen z učebníc, učíme sa pre život. Kód projektu ITMS: Britain’s public transport in towns Dátum: január 2015 Mgr. Vladimíra Damková Anglický jazyk

Public transport in towns Bus London Underground

Bus every city and town in Britain - a local bus service tickets are valid for each separate journey 1-day and weekly travel cards - available in some towns - bought from the driver or at the bus station London has one of the world’s largest urban bus networks double-deckers – more than 3,000 in operation in London

Routemaster  originally intended to work for 17 years  operated for a half a century  a famous double-decker  ‘hop-on hop-off’ bus – no doors - an open-sided platform  a driver a conductor walking around collecting fares  at one time, almost every London bus – a Routemaster  2005 – the end of its career

London Underground the oldest underground train system in the world nearly 300 stations with the network still expanding first opened in 1863 known as the ‘Tube’ tickets: - paper tickets - travel card → weekly → monthly → annual → Oyster card - cheaper prices heavily used - connections with the main line train stations and suburbs

 London's tube system - split into 6 'zones' in concentric circles  on the tube maps - central London - zone 1 (the middle circle), - the further destinations from central London, the higher the zones  cheaper travelling in zones 3, 4, 5 and 6 than in zones 1 and 2 (payment needed for all zones throughout your journey)  trains and platforms : - eastbound - trains travelling from left to right on the tube map - westbound - from right to left - northbound - from bottom to top - southbound - from top to bottom The Tube

Sources: Kniha Transport – názov ?