"Kai Borgolte" wrote in message
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Am 11.01.2013 00:12, schrieb Clive D. W. Feather:

147. A 2011 study suggested 30 per cent of passengers take longer routes
due to the out-of-scale distances on the Tube map.

I'm very skeptical of that claim.

It may be true for the isolated case Paddington to Bond Street via Baker
Street/Notting Hill Gate: "Although the second route is considerably
slower (by about 15 per cent), some 30 per cent of travellers chose it,
Professor Guo found."

I don't see that he can conclude that it's got anything to do with the
journey "looking" shorted. In the case of catching a train from Padd it
could easily be because access to the circle line platforms is simpler.

Here's another one:

What's the optimum route from Waterloo to King's Cross? The shortest route
on the ground (whichever way that is) or the cross platform connection at
Oxford Circus? And does knowledge about that connection make pax who go
this way count as the "wrong way" or does lack of
knowledge about the connection make pax who go another way count as the
"wrong way"?

tim