John Ray wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 3 Nov 2004:

Agreed. I think that navigation around the system is rather easier in
Paris than in London because stations there tend to be named with more
precision than they are here. For example, Richelieu Drouot is at the
junction of rue de Richelieu and rue Drouot; Reuilly Diderot is at the
junction of Boulevard Diderot and rue de Reuilly. In London, Tube
stations are usually named after localities, e.g. Stratford, which can
encompass quite a wide area.

That's because the Paris system is a great deal more compact than ours,
and stations are much closer together.
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