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Old March 3rd 16, 02:18 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Spoilt by choice - connections

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 13:14:41 +0000
eastender wrote:
"The Paris system has 78 such choice points. The New York subway, the
most complex in the world, has 161. New York's system is so sprawling
and interconnected,*Barthelemy and colleagues*Riccardo Gallotti*and
Mason Porter concluded in a recent analysis, that it approaches the
maximum complexity our human minds can handle, the equivalent of about
8 bits of information."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...stems-are-grow
ng-too-complex-for-the-human-mind/


Just wait until more Overground lines are added to the tube map if TfL takes
over some south london lines.

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Spud