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Ligne 13 – pas LIgne 1 … in Paris. I must admit suprise
Is it really worse than the Central Line, though?
One starts to wonder about the methodology used, when you get results like these.
On the “HST’s for XC services” short note – do I detect special pleading & excuses not to do the sensible thing?
“The Most Crowded Public Transit(sic) Routes in London are…
Jubilee: (Most Crowded Stops) Canada Water, North Greenwich Station (sic), Canning Town
Central: Stratfird Station (sic), Liverpool Street, Bethnal Green
Waterloo & City: Waterloo Underground Station, Bank”
Well, it’s nice that use Google users can spot a busy station and train when we see one.
I do note that Google ask the users about how crowded a TRAIN is, not which stations are busy.
* Crowdedness predictions come from optional feedback directly from the people who use Google Maps. In fact, you may have received notifications asking about how crowded your subway, train, or bus ride was after navigating in transit mode. To learn more about how crowdedness levels vary around the world, we analyzed aggregated and anonymized reports of crowdedness from Google Maps users from October 2018 to June 2019 during peak commuting hours (6am – 10am), and identified which lines had the highest number of crowdedness reports.
The original “Transit crowdedness trends” blog post is here: https://www.blog.google/products/maps/transit-crowdedness-trends-around/ London is in the third graphic down, after clicking the arrow to the right a few times.
@Brian Butterworth (12.17). It is reassuring to see that the most crowded stops on the W&C are Waterloo and Bank. This has certainly always been my experience.
@ Littlejohn
One sometimes finds there are less satisfactory and very crowded stops on the unmentionable, respectively just before Bank and Waterloo…
There is a big difference between crowding, and passengers perception of crowding which can vary massively between locations and cultures. Even in London perception of crowding changes between lines and what people are used to.
The Cairo Metro carries almost 5 times as many people per unit of track than the London Underground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems
This data is not split up by line, but it suggests that many of the busiest lines do not appear in this table.
@Eric – but are we comparing apples with apples? Does the Cairo Metro have an equivalent of off-peak services to Roding Valley and so on? A comparison of ‘inner city’ services (however we decide to define them) may give a different picture.
This year’s winning entry in the Thomson Foundation Mobile Journalism competition was a story about the Cairo Metro, described thus in the results press release:
“Scrambling for standing space alongside other crushed commuters, and with little prospect of passions cooling, he attempted to report on the sharp fare increases to an inadequate train system, leaving millions of already struggling Cairo residents angered.“
Full version and a link to the report at:
http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/latest/egyptian-mojo-winner-joins-crushed-commuters-on-cairo-train/
@Eric Difference between busyness and crowding. Cairo Metro may carry more people per track km than London, but what is the tph like? is it a consistent level of busyness across the network? Or is it really busy in the centre and quieter on the outskirts like London?