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12 data maps that sum up London - from the BBC

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  • Yep, Saturday.
    No, not Croydon.
  • Lewisham? No tubes and a lot of major bus routes go through there
  • edited March 2015
    3 is journeys to work so needs to be somewhere with a lot of employment reached by bus. On that basis I reckon Bromley or Bexley as the train lines in both just head off to the centre and there's quite a bit of work around Footscray/Orpington.
  • We've already had the answers to number 3, it's Southwark and Hackney.
  • Thanks to everyone who played the game. I think we're almost there now, so here are the answers:

    1. The population of London peaked at 8.6m in 1939.
    2. Bovingdon, Ockham and Lambourne are three aircraft landing stacks.
    3. Hackney and Southwark are the only two London boroughs where 'Bus' the most popular method of transport to go to work.
    4. The Northern Line has the highest suicide rate. 92 fatalities and 55 unsuccessful attempts over the last 10 years.
    5. The kayak, the rottweiler, 510 watches and 6,570 were all handed in to lost property at Heathrow Airport.
    6. Saturday is the busiest day of the week for the 'Emirates Air Line' cable car. It runs empty for most of the week.
    7. Yantlet, Barrow and Knob are channels in the Thames Estuary.
    8. Lancaster Gate to Paddington takes 18 minutes by tube but you could walk it in half that.
    9. Westminster has the highest number of drink related 999 calls at 1,300 per year (more than 2nd Camden and 3rd Lambeth combined)
    10. Saudi Arabian visitors spend most per head when visiting London. Averaging £2,700 per person per visit.
    11. If all of a day's Metro papers with placed in a single stack, it would be 6 times higher than The Shard. 1.95m papers. 1,950 metres.
    12. Greenwich Park and Blackheath Point are the two locations in the Borough of Greenwich that have protected views. Both views that are protected are of St Pauls.
  • Seen that before. Not bad, but they've got the bridge descriptions the wrong way round.
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