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Attention London flaneurs: The Emirates Air Line cable car across the Thames from Emirates Greenwich at the O2 to Emirates Royal Docks at the ExCel conference centre is now open. If you want to have a go, it costs £3.20 on your Oyster card or £4.30 in cash. If you're doing it for leisure rather than business reasons, it's advisable to ride during off-peak hours, as it slows down from five minutes to ten to provide more viewing pleasure.

Below is a 5 min 25 sec YouTube video of a safety test done on the cable cars a couple of weeks ago.

A link to a Telegraph article on the Air Line opening is here.

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I'm not sure that knowing which way is north, for example, would help me much in an unfamiliar city but I've certainly used example 4, navigation by flow of people. When I arrived in one city for the first time, after 5-30pm, and urgently needed to find a food shop still open (back in the days when even supermarkets often closed at 6pm), I looked around for the direction most people with supermarket/Sainsbury carrier bags were coming from and, several maze-like urban cut-throughs later, I found the shop I needed.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15125287

Six ways to never get lost in a city again

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