In 1865 , an archaist name John Leighton project a surefire way to eliminate expensive cab fares in London : Convert the entire city to a hexagon grid , eliminate the winding street cab driver used to put out drive and drive up cost .
harmonise to Strange Maps :
Leighton intimate that the old borough boundaries should be falsify to conform to a honeycomb design . Within a 5 - mile spoke of the General Post Office all the sprawling , differently sized boroughs were to become hexagonal - shaped areas , 2 miles across . There were 19 whole with the City in the centre of the honeycomb . Each hexangular borough would be key by a letter , and the letter as well as a number would be painted or burn out of tin - plate to be visible by day and nighttime on lampposts at every street corner .
Very efficient !
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