umpston wrote:
"Alek" wrote in message
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Yikes !
TfL appear to have become a well of interesting,infuriating yet usually
unverifiable statistics........
I remember reading one such nugget a while back which told a breathless
world that it`s bus network catered for something in the region of 6
wheelchair journeys per day......
Mr Churchill may indeed have had a point when he spoke of Lies,damn
lies.......and then Statistics...?


I am sure in this case there may be some truth that the demand for
public-transport services drops hugely over the Christmas break - because
most people take holiday - my office, for example, closes between Christmas
Eve and New Years Day. If they'd said 70% of the working population are not
at work on Christmas Day this might be an underestimate - but they didn't.
As you say, interesting but unverifiable - therefore inuriating!

Probably
the press-officers' fault - removing sources and qualifications supposedly
to make things more 'readable'.


I would suspect TfL of being a highly political organisation that makes
its 'statistics' prove what it wants to say, whatever they are.



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Nick H (UK)