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Loved the Jago reveal! I'd say plenty of viewers will have recognized his voice :)

Mark

Yes it was! I always wanted to know what he looked like, and I finally found out when he turned up on day 1 of filming.

Jay Foreman

Oops. So you were. Mobile app doesn't make it clear at all.

Jay Foreman

Thanks! I've made that change in the new version. Luckily the words either side of "Tuesday" splice together really seamlessly, so you'll never notice the cut. :)

Jay Foreman

Was that Jago Hazzard?

Dagur

Just noticed at the ad at the end it says the deal ends on Tuesday 31st of December 2022, but the 31st is on Saturday this year?

oh I was replying to Geoff Marshall's comment under my own :D

ScrapHeapChallenge

This sounds like a challenge for Geoff Marshall. (Actually this sound a bit more like a mix-up with Geoff Marshall. He’s done the Tube Challenge lots, I’ve done it never.)

Jay Foreman

actually got a challenge you could do in future to go alongside the "visiting all the stations in one day" (I'm subscribed to you too :) I remember also seeing you doing the challenge many years ago on the tv documentary series about the tube!). How about taking a wheelchair user along and having a challenge of how many stations you can visit together in a day which they can access? ;)

ScrapHeapChallenge

OMG you revealed his secret identity! (I've only ever heard his voice)

ScrapHeapChallenge

yes I use that one to some degree as well, but Step Free London's is far better because they understand accessibility whereas the people who do TFL's don't. EG they marked Green Park as step free from train, but the gap is too large, so I ended up having an incident where my front castors fell down the gap between the train and the platform there. (And my front castors are larger than those on manual wheelchairs!) They don't understand that not all wheelchairs are the same - if they did test it, it was likely with a manual wheelchair user - and they normally wheelie over gaps so the front castors never get caught. Powerchairs can't do wheelies. Since I reported the accident, they initially denied there was a problem, but just last week I got an update from TFL access pointing out they've realised that some "step free" stations aren't, and they're implementing some new mini-ramps to bridge those dangerous gaps, including at Green Park, as part of a trial going on into the new year. SFL map includes far more information that we can use to plan journeys that isn't mentioned on TFL's.

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Have you never seen TfL’s proper step free tube map? So much better than the regular tube map - and contains exactly what you refer to - places where you can interchange step free, not just enter/exit. https://content.tfl.gov.uk/step-free-tube-guide-map.pdf

Geoff Marshall

He’s not hiding in the dub. That’s the actual him in the actual video. Harry Beck was Jago Hazzard all along.

Jay Foreman

Mornington Crescent!

Vague attempt to sound smart and unique in a single line username

although YES, we absolutely DO need the accessibility information! TFL's own wheelchair access information is so poorly done that instead of TFL I rely on SFL (Step Free London) to plan routes - they're much more up to date than TFL, and have more helpful detail. For example, SFL shows when a station may not be accessible for a wheelchair user to go from platform up to street level, BUT CAN be used to swap to a different line. This is a vital link in being able to plan journeys for us disabled folks, and can cut literally hours off a journey. It takes us a lot longer to get around London than abled people because we can't use most of the network, and busses often won't move pushchairs out of the wheelchair space, so you have to skip 2 or more busses before you can get one to take you onboard. A journey into London my abled other half can do in under an hour, typically takes me 3 hours, sometimes it's been far more.

ScrapHeapChallenge

OMG I hear a Jago Hazzard hiding in the dub there...

ScrapHeapChallenge

Oops! Well spotted. Will fix that right now!

Jay Foreman

I didn't think anyone would spot a Jago reference without spotting the Jago voice. I guess his appearance is so unexpected you don't immediately twig that it's him.

Jay Foreman

Thanks Ian. The inset at 0:31 isn't a mirror image of me, but I REALLY wish we'd planned the thumbnail first and done just that. That would have been a great gag. Maybe it's not too late, and I can redo the thumbnail using that image? I'll see if I have time and if it looks good enough. As for the bright and blown out scene walking through the woods, I've tried for ages to get the colour correction right on that, and there's not a lot I can do about it. It was an incredibly bright and sunny day. We were supposed to film that bit in an open field, but it was WAY too hot, so we retreated to the forest. I think that's the best I can get it to look. Will have another stab at improving it tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback! :)

Jay Foreman

Ahh, thank you! And here I was thinking I had discovered a secret hidden Easter Egg... when I could have just done the reading!

Read the credits of the video in the description :-)

Simon Fox

I can’t tell if Harry Beck’s retort to London Transport is supposed to be a sly reference to YouTuber Jago Hazzard or whether my brain is melting down and seeing nerdy YouTube jokes which aren’t really there…

Excellent video. Just two comments: • Is it just me or is Jay in the inset at 0:31 a mirror image of the Jay actually talking? • Also, the bit around 6:30 seems very bright and blown out.

Ian Flanigan

Sidenote: one of my (many) favourite things about your videos is the sheer amount of detail, comedic and otherwise, everywhere. I stopped to read each of the metro map descriptions, and it was so worth it, even just over 10 seconds or so.

In case "grammatical" includes "punctuational", there's an apostrophe missing after the S in "kids" at 7:41. Neverthenonetheless, an excellent video.

Poor Harry Beck, the van Gogh of tube map design.. 🥀