ATLAS / PLATE 003
LONDON IS BIGGER AT MIDNIGHT
Measuring london by travel at different times rather than raw distance.
What shape is London when distance is measured in scheduled minutes?
KEY
- GEOGRAPHIC POSITION
- EFFECTIVE POSITION AT SELECTED TIME
- DISPLACEMENT, GEOGRAPHIC → EFFECTIVE
- ORIGIN · KING’S CROSS ST PANCRAS
- DISTANCE RINGS · KM-EQUIVALENT RADIAL GUIDE
Each destination is kept on its real bearing from King’s Cross St Pancras; radius is transformed by scheduled journey time, so the figure shows how London deforms when time replaces geographic distance.
BEARINGS = GEOGRAPHIC BEARINGS FROM KING’S CROSS · RADII COMPARED VIA THE PLATE’S GLOBAL SCALE CONSTANT K · A TIME-SPACE TRANSFORMATION, NOT A CONVENTIONAL MAP PROJECTION
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DESTINATIONS
108
JOURNEYS
- ORIGIN
- KING'S CROSS ST PANCRAS
- REFERENCE DATE
- TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2026
- MEDIAN GEOGRAPHIC RADIUS
- 12.95 KM
- MEDIAN JOURNEY 08:30
- 30.5 MIN
- MEDIAN JOURNEY 13:00
- 30.0 MIN
- MEDIAN JOURNEY 23:30
- 30.5 MIN
- 23:30 MEDIAN RADIUS VS 13:00
- +1.67%
At 23:30 the median effective radius is only +1.7% larger than at 13:00, but individual destinations deform sharply in both directions.
- HEATHROW TERMINALS 2 & 340 → 58 MIN+18
- EALING BROADWAY27 → 35 MIN+8
- EAST CROYDON34 → 42 MIN+8
- FINSBURY PARK5 → 10 MIN+5
Powered by the Transport for London Journey Planner API
- METHOD
- Transport/temporal geometry
- SOURCE
- TfL Unified API/Journey Planner
- PERIOD
- Tue 6 Oct 2026 · 08:30 / 13:00 / 23:30
- GEOGRAPHY
- London, from King's Cross St Pancras
- TYPE
- TIME-SPACE TRANSFORMATION
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