2008/7/7 Tom Holden <thomas.holden@gmail.com>:
"That's not a bad point. It doesn't actually have to be London, itThe numbers for Oxford are already up here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/UK/Oxford
could be somewhere within the London commuter belt. Show me some
numbers, and you might be able to convince me."
Pasted for convenience:
5.1 Coach connections to Oxford
* Central London - Oxford Tube (100 mins) [4], Oxford Espress X90 (100 mins) [5]
* London Heathrow Airport - The Airline X70 (80-100 mins) [6]
* London Gatwick Airport - The Airline X80 (120-150 mins) [7]
* London Luton Airport - National Express JL737 (110-130 mins) [8]
* London Stansted Airport - National Express JL737 (190 - 230 mins) [9]
5.2 Train connections to Oxford
* Central London (60 mins) [10]
* Birmingham International Airport (57 mins) [11]
So about an hour and a half from Heathrow. That's pretty competitive with getting the tube into the centre which is around 45 mins on a good day if I remember right. It's also certainly competitive with Cambridge US. (Many people would have had to fly into NY, got an internal flight to Boston and then a train/bus to Cambridge I'm guessing.)
Tom
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