I have been living in London for just over two weeks now. In my first week I was catching the tube around quite a bit. To be honest I think the tube is a bloody amazing piece of public transport. There are over 900 million journeys on the tube a year, that's more than all the other train services in Britain combined. Now for a more disconcerting fact about the tube. 40 mins in the tube is the equivalent of smoking 2 cigarettes. Luckily I take the bus to work so I don't really use the tube much. But for someone who takes the tube to work and back everyday they are doing the equivalent of smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes a week. Check this site out for more amazing facts about the tube.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Smoking on the tube
I have been living in London for just over two weeks now. In my first week I was catching the tube around quite a bit. To be honest I think the tube is a bloody amazing piece of public transport. There are over 900 million journeys on the tube a year, that's more than all the other train services in Britain combined. Now for a more disconcerting fact about the tube. 40 mins in the tube is the equivalent of smoking 2 cigarettes. Luckily I take the bus to work so I don't really use the tube much. But for someone who takes the tube to work and back everyday they are doing the equivalent of smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes a week. Check this site out for more amazing facts about the tube.
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You will have to give me good tips to get use to that thing.
Woops deleted my comment. Well I was gonna say it's real easy to get around on the tube. Infact if I get lost in London the tube is like my safe haven I find the nearest station, jump on and go to somewhere thats familar again. This also leads me to my next post, the Underground Map.
What I think is interesting is that if you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that is equivalent to being on the tube for 6hrs 40min. If you smoke a pack every day for your whole life, it is as though you had spent just over 25% of your life on the tube. That would be annoying.
Oh, that last comment was from me, I am still figuring out this whole internet thing.
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