American Reacts What went wrong with the Tube Map?

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[@jeffjefferson7384]

The £535 thing is real, but is probably from the 1940s.

[@paulmurrell1301]

Plus in the 40's the exchange rate was £1 = $4

[@AndrewHalliwell]

@@paulmurrell1301the spending power of the pound from 1950 would be over £20 today, so the £535 house back then would be over £10,000 in today’s money. Unfortunately, that isn’t taking into account the housing price boom, so the same house now, likely to cost 500,000 or more.

[@britbazza3568]

£535 in London in the 1940's is most probably correct but in modern times a family house in the London suburbs will cost somewhere around £600.000+ A point to make on both the London Tube and Concorde is the fact that per mile of travel when Concorde was flying it was actually cheaper to fly Concorde per mile to the USA than it was to travel the London Tube. At least on Concorde you were guaranteed a seat and a Champaign dinner. Also on the London tube if you chat to passengers on the train you are met with Stern looks and disapproval but the only time you are excused is if you need to ask directions then the locals are very helpful

[@pvuccino]

The thing is that the places that are now high-class London suburbs were in the middle of nowhere back then, so it's not just inflation. The irony is that it was the tube that actually caused that.

[@rohan1970b]

Absolutely correct. However, general inflation would mean £535 would be worth £43,123. The rest is just the increase in housing prices specifically.

[@davidz3879]

Some lines should be extended southwards, such as the Victoria line going to Croydon & the Bakerloo line going to Bromley.

[@Isleofskye]

Good Reaction,as always though you know how to pronounce London's mighty River Thames, and yet when it came to Thameslink, you pronounced The "Thames" part totally differently:) The Underground has been fantastic all thru' my London life and I think the last time I waited 10 minutes for a Tube was in the 1980s 😀

[@mikeh020011]

You should look at this video :- Metroland with John Betjeman. It is about the expansion of the Tube lines and the housing developments that went it in the early 1900;s.

[@MsCheesemonster13]

Have you heard of Linus Boman’s channel? I watched “32+ London Borough Council Logos Rated & Roasted”, which was so good, but “22 Australian Logos Rated & Roasted” was even better. I think he’s a fan of the Map Men.

[@steveyates7044]

All over Britain people cheered at the mention of Mornington Crescent. I bet you don`t know why.

[@declanrussell2232]

I grew up in the far north west of the underground map on the metropolitan line (purple). I used it to get to school, visit friends and socialise. Most importantly to get into town for pubs and clubs. Always a dodgy cab home 😉

[@Naylte]

04:45 XD FYI One of our comedy panel shows (on the radio) had a bit called 'Mornington Crescent', which amounted to a vague resemblance of a board game with a racing theme on London's public transport network. 05:10 In terms of inflation, it's more like £362.20

[@Inkyminkyzizwoz]

Saying that 5 guineas is £5.25 in today's money is simply converting pre decimal currency into decimal and not adjusting for inflation. A guinea was 21 shillings, or £1 plus one shilling, so equivalent to £1.05 in decimal format

[@highpath4776]

horses are still sold in guineas

[@aldomir]

Great video dude

[@jaccilowe3842]

My parents' house where I was born cost them 500 UK pounds in the early 50s. It was a semi, similar to the one shown.

[@lightplane]

Harry Beck was played by Jago Hazzard. The comment he made when he got fired was a nice giveaway as Jago never appears in his videos. He makes videos about london underground. The "you are.... to my......" is his classic catch phrase. Also the paris metro official was played by Tim Burton, the tim traveller.

[@highpath4776]

Interest use of Maybe its Because Im A Londoner to Jay's outro down the Mall. Map Men co host comment has the black and white "advert coming" bars in top right hand of frame - in a not to ITV that did that on shows to prompt continuity / producer on live shows / announcers etc

[@WithTwoFlakes]

I'm maybe 25 miles further out than that. My neighbour bought his house (similar to the one shown) straight after the street was built in 1955. He paid £1,100 - probably worth £375,000 now....

[@vaudevillian7]

£535 to buy…

[@gmdhargreaves]

My parents paid £18,000 for a 4 bed semi in Epsom in 1978, it sold a few years back for £650,000!!! London and its surrounding areas are SUPER expensive

[@highpath4776]

wish I had looked at that time, though my income would have been sub £90 a week

[@neilonaniet]

They actually paid £93,000 for it if you consider inflation. Still a good return though.

[@gmdhargreaves]

@@neilonaniet unfortunately they sold it it in 1992 for only £125,000 which was a lot even in the early 90’s

[@slashdisco]

Jay's wrong that Harry Beck was only paid £5.25 in "today's" money. He was paid between 5 and 10 guineas. At the time, a guinea was no longer an official denomination but was used as shorthand for one pound and one shilling. So he was paid a minimum of five pounds and five shillings in 1930s money, which is worth around £340 today. Still a paltry sum, but much more than £5.25!

[@kirstygunn9149]

Mornington crescent is a game on a BBC Radio 4 show called " I'm sorry I haven't a clue " it's been going for decades ( from the 60s i think)and it's a panel game show with bits like "one song to the tune of another "and Mornington crescent where you say names of train stops that get you to Mornington crescent, then the Radio studio audience cheers. Its like the radio equivalent of who's line is it anyway?

[@andyblogger1]

The NY subway map is atrocious. Had real difficulty finding our way around when over there last May.

[@nathanjohnwade2289]

In Sydney Australia, there's no distinction between the underground and aboveground - they're the same network.

[@SotonSam]

I love the jumper mate. Where'd ya get it? Lol

[@lynette.]

Love the ending mapman.

[@highpath4776]

The best map, which is larger , is the "London Connections" map which shows ALL tube , tfl other and national rail services in London and a bit beyond

[@nicola1175]

Mcjibbin ❤

[@kumasenlac5504]

3:37 Check out the prices for a detached family home in the US in the 1930s.

[@ninny65]

Please keep the cam quality at this level forever

[@chris747f]

Yh it’s inflation when my parents who are now in late 70’s their first house cost them £190 total but would sell these days for £375,000 if still had 😂

[@mikefraser4513]

I love the tube...especially when I was a kid playing Monopoly.

[@JK50with10]

Don’t forget the fee was pre-decimalization when there were 240 pence to the pound, not 100. One Guinea (one pound, one shilling) in 1933 is worth £88 today. So the £535 house is equivalent to £45k. The problem is that house prices have increased faster than inflation due to faster population growth, lack of new housing and low-interest rates.

[@johnnyanderson2-roblox185]

I will never understand why unnecessary additions to a map about a specific route needs walking path qnd such.

[@highpath4776]

"out of station interchanges" , and to try to get people to walk and not take the tube one stop. The map though is too small with too much info in it (and not on proper card)

[@johnnyanderson2-roblox185]

@@highpath4776 it would likely be more effective at it's intended purpose if they made an entirely different map next to the tube map outlining walking paths of various traffic and density, that would also make adding geographical areas more pertinent as the map takes place on the surface, not the underground. But hey, perhaps that's too expensive.

[@highpath4776]

@@johnnyanderson2-roblox185 They exist at bus stops. most have 5 or 10 min walks at on them or on separate street information boards, perhaps they should be incoroporated into the tube. Note Jay outro was in front of the all rail London Connections Map, also at tube stations, which does not have the walk dots other than bankument

[@karenclover4948]

My uncle bought his first house in 1942 for £600 in Norbury South West London

[@fourdimensions4504]

Hi, you should probably react to Jeffrey the librarian for some history, even though his vids are bit long.

[@highpath4776]

can I get that 1960 map anywhere ?

[@johnhood3172]

Hi, the house price is correct, my old house in London was built in 1934 and cost new £600 it Was a 3bedroom with garage and 2 large gardens, today its worth Over £400,000 , this shows money has no true value. About the map it’s got be that messy, TFLs system has doubled in size in the last 20 years to match London’s growth, there’s a joke about London “ no one knows where it stops “ Regards. JH

[@alisonhamilton994]

535 pounds was different then before 1971 1pound was 240 pence and inflation aswell as that

[@Jonago.]

Wait why do you have 20053 notifications on KZbin lol

[@Seagull6819]

December 25 is coming soon Connor. Search “Christmas at the Ministry”, you won’t regret it!

[@Otacatapetl]

Mornington Crescent. I win.

[@Pluggit1953]

Thames is pronounced as “tems”!

[@Sahaib3005]

Lol

[@scabthecat]

River Thameslink

[@AndyLeMaitre]

Did you say TARMAY'S LINK Connor, I think you're doing it on purpose! 🤨

[@proudyorkshireman7708]

£535 is around £23,500 nowadays

[@Bazroshan]

The tube map is not a map at all, it's a model.

[@matthewpetty4315]

why don't you just turn the brightness down if a white screen blinds you lol

[@stirlingmoss4621]

#1

[@McJibbin]

🤝

[@squidcaps4308]

Unsubbing, he turned down the lights.. i'm joking of course, you guys are just sometimes... nevermind...

[@Isleofskye]

Deservedly and undeniably FIRST(Ignore the comment below). I claim my prize....:)

[@arthurgoonie4596]

Sad to know that London is only 36% English.

[@declanrussell2232]

What opposed to when it was Roman, Germanic, Norman or Norse?

[@arthurgoonie4596]

@@declanrussell2232 all of those is what make England english what's your point?

[@arthurgoonie4596]

@@declanrussell2232 were talking a thousand to two thousand years removed. How the fuck has london become minority ethnically english in a 100 years.

[@highpath4776]

mostly due to Bracknell, Basildon , Harlow and Crawley

[@arthurgoonie4596]

@@highpath4776 huh?