Google recently posted a blog article about the most crowded transit lines in the world (based on passenger self-reporting when maps asks "how crowded was your trip?"). Paris Metro 13 is in the top5. Sounds legit. Now, the story gets funny / ridiculous...
A french journalist somewhere decided to translate "crowdedness" as "fréquentation" aka. how many passenger use the transit line. This then propagated through multiple online publications, all talking about the Paris Metro 13 line being one of the top5 used in the world.
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Leading to amazing articles like https://www.01net.com/actualites/google-classe-la-ligne-13-de-la-ratp-dans-le-top-5-des-metros-les-plus-frequentes-au-monde-1721610.html … where
@01net is almost congratulating RATP for managing one of the most used lines in the world. When in practice the original source is about the fact that they provide one of the worst service for passengers worldwide.Show this thread -
They're not alone:
@BFMTV does the same mistake inhttps://www.bfmtv.com/societe/pour-google-la-ligne-13-du-metro-parisien-est-l-une-des-plus-frequentees-au-monde-1721904.html …Show this thread
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