If you are a regular traveller on the London Underground, here are some facts which you are going to wish you hadn't read.

During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the Department of Forensics at University College London
removed a row of passenger seats from a Central Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness.
Despite London Underground's claim that the interior of their trains are cleaned on a regular basis,
the scientists made some alarming discoveries.

The analysis was broken down. This is what was found on the surface of the seats:

. 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)

. 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)

. vomit originating from at least 9 separate people

. human urine originating from at least 4 separate people

. human excrement

. rodent excrement

. human semen


When the seats were taken apart, they found:

the remains of 6 mice

. the remains of 2 large rats

. 1 previously unheard of fungus

It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are transferring, to your body,
the natural oils and sweat from as many as 400 different people.
It is estimated that it is generally healthier to smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one hour a day on the London Underground.

It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before eating,
than to wipe your hand on a London Underground seat before eating.

It is estimated that, within London, more work sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up
whilst travelling on the London Underground than for any other reason (including alcohol).

[ Last edited by  twiceAweek at 9-12-2007 16:23 ]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................

not wonder puff doesn't like travelling on the subway

'You Betcha..........!...

But it's just been rated No. 1 in the world. Hong Kong came in at No. 10. Hard to believe uh?

http://www.virgin-vacations.com/ ... ms-in-the-world.asp

I was in London abour 4 years ago and went on the undergroung
unless they changed the carrages I can't believe they can be No. 1 !!!

We need to look at who put up this list ...

and this report is from yr2k !!
hasnt london got busier since then ie all the new immigrants

NO WAY !!!!
I lived in london before I moved to H.K.
The "tube" system as we call it is S**T compared to H.K.
DIRTY
NOISY
NEVER ON TIME .
RUDE STAFF
EXPENSIVE ....
Whoever wrote the report must be on drugs !!!
We have a lot of things to be proud of and thankful for in H.K.

Like the mtr ..Excellent

141 .... say no more ...

Josh

I agree with what you say bro, but it's not really fair to compare the London Underground with the MTR. The London
Underground is the longest in the world and the MTR is tiny in comparison. The London Underground is also the oldest in
the world and started operations 145 years ago in 1863. Can you imagine that? It's always amazed me how such a tiny
country as Great Britain managed to do so much. Must have something to do with the British people, I suppose.