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Post by superteacher on Mar 14, 2018 16:29:12 GMT
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Post by superteacher on Mar 14, 2018 19:03:20 GMT
Do 158 people really go from Leicester Square to Covent Garden each day? Fools!
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 20:58:37 GMT
Do 158 people really go from Leicester Square to Covent Garden each day? Fools! Maybe not be so quick to judge. They may have their reasons apart from being a fool. Perhaps some sort of disability? |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 14, 2018 20:58:41 GMT
Do 158 people really go from Leicester Square to Covent Garden each day? Fools! If you add together the distance from the platforms to the surface at both stations how much less combined in distance is it than that walking between the two? That's before you factor in the time and inconvenience of course. |
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 21:00:33 GMT
I wonder what the most and least popular in/outs are. Can't see how one can determine that from that site.
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 21:02:07 GMT
Northfields to South Ealing: 32
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Post by superteacher on Mar 14, 2018 21:02:38 GMT
I wonder what the most and least popular in/outs are. Can't see how one can determine that from that site. Wikipedia gives individual station stats if that’s any help. |
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 21:04:03 GMT
High Barnet to Dagenham East: "Less than 10 Londoners do the same journey as you every day."
It's "Fewer" not "Less". Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 21:06:16 GMT
I wonder what the most and least popular in/outs are. Can't see how one can determine that from that site. Wikipedia gives individual station stats if that’s any help. Maybe if you pick the two least popular, but (as per above) it would seem any itineraries with fewer than 10 "completions" are excluded. Most? I am going to open with Waterloo to Canary Wharf (or Bank) |
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Post by superteacher on Mar 14, 2018 21:06:30 GMT
Do 158 people really go from Leicester Square to Covent Garden each day? Fools! Maybe not be so quick to judge. They may have their reasons apart from being a fool. Perhaps some sort of disability? If they have a disability then they would find it harder to go by train between those stations than foot as neither are step free to platform level. |
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 21:07:46 GMT
Waterloo to Bank/Monument: "You’re on a popular route: 19,843 Londoners do the same journey as you every day."
Almost twice as many as Waterloo -> CW
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 21:08:35 GMT
Maybe not be so quick to judge. They may have their reasons apart from being a fool. Perhaps some sort of disability? If they have a disability then they would find it harder to go by train between those stations than foot as neither are step free to platform level. I take your point. But disabilities come in many forms. Let's leave it there. |
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Post by castlebar on Mar 14, 2018 21:47:51 GMT
Unbelievable!!
Years ago I saw a bunch of foreign visitors all buying tickets to Embankment. This was at Charing Cross, and of course those of a certain age will know that Embankment was once called Charing Cross. This was because of lack of local knowledge, and the ticket office happily sold them the tickets.
I DO NOT LIKE TO SEE PEOPLE BEING MOCKED because they are not expected to know stuff when some stations on the tube map are spaced the same but in actuality, are some distance apart. Many foreign visitors looking at a Beck style map, will not know the distance between Covent Garden and Leicester Square is similar to that between Northfields and South Ealing, NOT the same as between Boston Manor and Osterley
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Post by superteacher on Mar 14, 2018 21:54:29 GMT
Please refrain from posting in capitals as it is considered to be shouting, thanks.
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Post by banana99 on Mar 14, 2018 23:18:36 GMT
Please refrain from posting in capitals as it is considered to be shouting, thanks. Or just simple emphasis of course. The entire post is not in capitals. So I would humbly suggest this is an example of emphasis. |
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Post by Chris M on Mar 15, 2018 0:11:57 GMT
Warren Street to Great Portland Street is unsurprisingly fewer than 10, ditto Aldgate to Aldgate East.
21 people do Waterloo to Vauxhall by tube.
97 people use the tube from Heathrow 123 to Paddington - I'd have guessed more
87 people who start at T123 alight at Leicester Square, the same number as alight at Cockfosters
342 do Waterloo to Southwark
418 people ride the Victoria Line end to end
69 travel from Amersham to Aldgate
5,542 people do Canary Wharf to Canada Water.
3,636 Victoria - Green Park but only 1,676 Victoria - Bank/Monument
34 travel from Camden Town to Mornington Crescent
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Post by banana99 on Mar 15, 2018 0:43:57 GMT
Warren Street to Great Portland Street is unsurprisingly fewer than 10, ditto Aldgate to Aldgate East. 21 people do Waterloo to Vauxhall by tube. 97 people use the tube from Heathrow 123 to Paddington - I'd have guessed more 87 people who start at T123 alight at Leicester Square, the same number as alight at Cockfosters 342 do Waterloo to Southwark 418 people ride the Victoria Line end to end 69 travel from Amersham to Aldgate 5,542 people do Canary Wharf to Canada Water. 3,636 Victoria - Green Park but only 1,676 Victoria - Bank/Monument 34 travel from Camden Town to Mornington Crescent I'd have guess more on the LHR intra-terminal traffic, but then again there are buses and HX. I doubt it is easy to get beyond the Waterloo to Bank/Embankment complex. The fact that the number is almost twice Waterloo to CW helps that assertion IMHO |
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Post by dagdave on Mar 15, 2018 8:23:19 GMT
High Barnet to Dagenham East: "Less than 10 Londoners do the same journey as you every day." It's "Fewer" not "Less". Grrrrrrrrrrrrr I got the same result for my commute from Dagenham East to West Kensington |
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 15, 2018 8:56:24 GMT
High Barnet to Warren Street[1] is a sub-10 people as well
[1]this isn't my current commute, it's from a former job[2]
[2]well, it's not as that involved national rail, but it's the tube analogue
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Post by brigham on Mar 15, 2018 9:49:30 GMT
140 go from Chesham to Amersham.
Time for a direct service!
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Post by superteacher on Mar 15, 2018 10:42:46 GMT
Unbelievable!! Years ago I saw a bunch of foreign visitors all buying tickets to Embankment. This was at Charing Cross, and of course those of a certain age will know that Embankment was once called Charing Cross. This was because of lack of local knowledge, and the ticket office happily sold them the tickets. I DO NOT LIKE TO SEE PEOPLE BEING MOCKED because they are not expected to know stuff when some stations on the tube map are spaced the same but in actuality, are some distance apart. Many foreign visitors looking at a Beck style map, will not know the distance between Covent Garden and Leicester Square is similar to that between Northfields and South Ealing, NOT the same as between Boston Manor and Osterley I'm not sure whether anyone is being mocked. If you are referring to my use of the word "fools", it was meant as a tongue-in-cheek comment. You can kind of excuse tourists from being lulled into taking the Underground for journeys that can be walked more quickly. However, the site mentions "Londoners", so I don't know whether they include things like visitor Oyster cards in the data. So I took it as it was only Londoners who made that one stop journey from Leicester Square to Covent Garden, in which case there is probably a stronger case that they should know how close the stations are, especially if they are a regular traveller. The incident you mention where a group of tourists were sold tickets from Charing Cross to Embankment is a bit naughty on the part of the person who sold them the tickets. However, it isn't wise to navigate around a city with only a tube / Metro map as your guide. When I have visited other cities, I always use a street map in order to decide how far my destination is, and whether it would be easier to walk. |
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Post by AndrewPSSP on Mar 15, 2018 11:29:16 GMT
Did you know that less than 10 people took the Jubilee line from Canada Water to Canada Water? *gasp*  |
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Post by superteacher on Mar 15, 2018 11:38:58 GMT
Did you know that less than 10 people took the Jubilee line from Canada Water to Canada Water? *gasp* Clearly quicker to walk . . .   |
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Post by philthetube on Mar 15, 2018 12:51:39 GMT
Interestingly 100 travel from Watford and 71 to Chorleywood + 8xless than 10 to all other stations from Croxley and Watford, so around 200 total, at rough numbers around 8 per train, this seems high considering the location of Watford met and the 13 minute connection most of the time. Makes you wonder about the potential.
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 15, 2018 14:38:06 GMT
Please refrain from posting in capitals as it is considered to be shouting, thanks. Or just simple emphasis of course. The entire post is not in capitals. So I would humbly suggest this is an example of emphasis.
banana99 Your account has recently been restricted as a result of your attitude to the forum staff, if you wish to prevent recurrence I suggest you retract or apologise for your comments above.
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Post by melikepie on Mar 15, 2018 16:11:26 GMT
Interestingly 14 go from Cockfosters to Uxbridge but only 12 go the other way.
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Post by superteacher on Mar 15, 2018 16:17:19 GMT
Interestingly 14 go from Cockfosters to Uxbridge but only 12 go the other way. Perhaps they teleport back?  I do wonder over what time period this data was taken over. |
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Post by ducatisti on Mar 15, 2018 17:54:11 GMT
the other two refused to go back...
Journey data is always difficult - especially on a system like LU where lots of routes are possible - many journeys other than simple out-and-back are possible. They may have gone back to High Barnet and got a lift, or a bus.
As I understand it, this was where Beeching fell down - he worked on the basis of tickets sold, not considering where the purchasers went (and came back from). So lots of destinations had low sales and so got the chop.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Mar 15, 2018 18:07:43 GMT
Beeching worked on the basis of tickets sold, not considering where the purchasers went (and came back from). So lots of destinations had low sales and so got the chop. Holiday destinations suffered particularly from this - most people would have used return tickets bought elsewhere. The figures were supposed to have been validated by a census of travel patterns, but it was taken on one week in February...... But to suggest that this was a failure by Beeching is to assume he didn't know exactly what he was doing, and Beeching was nobody's fool. |
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Post by roman80 on Mar 15, 2018 18:25:05 GMT
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