580 million people use my escalator!

This must be true, because I saw it this evening on a London Transport poster at London Bridge station as I travelled home from work, & I believe everything that they (London Transport) tell me. I mean when have you ever known a train timetable to be inaccurate?

Even so, 580 million people is an awful lot of people. Whilst it is often very busy, I think this could be a slight exaggeration, albeit that it didn't state over what period this many people used it.

To put the number into perspective it is equivalent to the populations of Europe queuing one behind the other and travelling up to street level from the underground below. Given that this would theoretically include French, Spanish and Italians queuing one behind each other - which is not a concept that I think that they understand - this fact may be not as accurate as I first thought!