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Walk the tube with this excellent map by Prudential Health. Thanks to 'Works Well' for providing it. Get walking on those journeys where it would be quicker than taking the train.
NB UPDATE: Thank you to Linda K who has sent us the below map which estimates journey time.
Labels: health, walk the tube, walking, walking map
18 comments:
An excellent resource, thank you.
I just slapped myself for not walking on two journeys that I really REALLY should be, especially since I'm CERTAIN it takes longer by train as walking through the station, down the stairs, down more stairs, onto the platform etc... I will walk more now.. thanks.
Love that it's sponsored by a health segment of an insurance company and not a fast food sponsor!
fantastic stuff, well done.
WOW and double WOW!
There you have it - proof that you can walk the tube. So you lazy Londoners, get active and walk more, it's better!
If I walk frmo Marble Arch to Tottenham Ct Road that's NEARLY 30 percent of my 10,000 steps a day! If I can do that twice in a day - which I know I can and is do-able, I'll be well on my way to getting what i should. I can't believe it. My current steps is around 2000 only! Thank you!
Oxford Circus to Piccadilly Circus is so easy for me now! I'm going to walk it THIS LUNCHTIME! GWAAAN!
Woo hoo! I do St James Park to Westminster every day. I'm burning off a Kit Kat every time!
Can someone tell me if there's on of these for Harrow??
i'd love to have one of these for Harrow!!
It's up to us - how about it? One for Harrow.. PLEEEEAASSEE!!
This is fantastic. I just got into work and checked the blog and this map is brilliant. I am going to walk more now and would love one for Harrow too.
u guys rock
MORE INFO:
KEY: Numbers show how many steps were taken by PruHealth volunteers to walk between each Tube station. Walking 1,000 steps at a medium pace burned off about 30 calories. Walking 1,000 steps at a medium pace took about 7.5 minutes.
Judy O'Sullivan, a cardiac nurse for the British Heart Foundation, said: "If you work near Covent Garden and catch the Piccadilly line then get off at Green Park and walk briskly for 15 minutes each way then that's half your daily physical activity requirement."
Walking up escalators is also important and Ms O'Sullivan said the health benefits of walking outweighed the risks of air pollution. Researchers calculated it took about 4.5 seconds to walk 10 steps at a rate of four miles per hour, while 1,000 steps took 7.5 minutes. At this rate, walkers burned about three calories per 100 steps, or one calorie every 15 seconds.
This would see travellers use nearly 100 calories by walking from Green Park to Covent Garden and back again, a journey which would take about 25 minutes. A Department of Health spokesman said: "In London we tend to rely on Tubes and buses to get around these days when we could be using our feet.
"Think about walking. If the journey is too far, you could always stop [your Tube or bus trip] a bit earlier, and walk the rest of the journey."
Government figures show more than 21 per cent of London's 10- to 11-year-olds are obese, three per cent more than the national average. Almost 10 per cent of the adult population are obese in parts of the capital, including Barking and Dagenham and Bexley.
In Enfield, Newham and Greenwich, eight per cent of adults are so overweight that their health is in danger.
And here are the calories we burned off
Marble Arch to Chancery Lane (Central Line)
Quickest walk taking in all stations: 4,927 steps
Burns: up to 147 calories
Equivalent to: one doughnut.
Route: From Marble Arch walk straight along Oxford Street, past Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road Tube stations, down New Oxford Street taking in Holborn Tube and then walk along High Holborn.
Monument to King's Cross (Circle Line)
Quickest walk: 7,888 steps
Burns: up to 236 calories
Equivalent to: one chicken tikka masala.
Route: From Monument walk along Eastcheap and Byward Street to Tower Hill, up Minories to Aldgate, along Houndsditch and Bishopsgate to Liverpool Street station, cut through Finsbury Circus to Moorgate. Walk through the Barbican estate to Barbican Tube, down Charterhouse Street for Farringdon, then Farringdon Road, King's Cross Road, Acton Street and Gray's Inn Road to King's Cross station.
South Kensington to Bayswater (Circle Line)
Quickest walk: 5,833 steps
Burns up to: 174 calories
Equivalent to: one Cadbury's Creme Egg.
Route: from South Kensington tube walk along Thurloe Street and Stanhope Gardens to Gloucester Road, then along Cromwell Road and Marloes Road to High Street Kensington station, along Kensington High Street, up Kensington Church Street, then Bayswater Road and Queensway to Bayswater.
Walking up escalators is also important and the health benefits of walking outweighed the risks of air pollution. Researchers calculated it took about 4.5 seconds to walk 10 steps at a rate of four miles per hour, while 1,000 steps took 7.5 minutes. At this rate, walkers burned about three calories per 100 steps, or one calorie every 15 seconds.
Found the below site and it's very useful. Click on my name to see the map, it shows you shortcuts across various lines. I haven't done this, it's someone called Rod McLaren, follow the link on my name for the site.
"For some journeys it's really not worth getting on the tube: it takes a long time, and costs you money. Sometimes it's quicker and easier to walk.
This is a slightly altered map showing which stations are an arbitrary and as-the-crow-flies 500 metres apart from each other. The "walklines" are dotted in. It doesn't look great yet, and definitely reduces the readability of the standard tube map at the moment, which isn't a good thing. So it's not an improvement on the map, but it's an interesting exercise."
I've just sent the blog another copy which estimates walking times, this is brilliant! You guys are onto something.
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