Complete and Utter Zebu

The London Assembly’s Transport Committee has issued a report called “Too Close For Comfort” about passengers’ experience of the London Underground. It concludes that overcrowding can be so bad that Tube travellers have to “psych themselves up” to cope with it. At peak times, passengers are regularly squashed in at a density of four or [...]

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Anybody forced to use the London Underground will know that its glory days are long gone. It will on most occasions get you from one place to another, but there is little pleasure to be had from the experience. Its service, frequently marred by inexplicable delays, is also usually excessively crowded. This makes the latest [...]

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