"Paul Corfield" wrote in message

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 10:19:53 -0700 (PDT), CJB
wrote:

Murad Qureshi calls for new signal box - 1928 equipment causing
commuter misery at Edgware Road Tube

Published: 4 June 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM IT has been described as the
"arm-pit" of the underground and is a perennial source of rage for
browbeaten Circle line commuters.

http://www.westendextra.com/news/201...y-edgware-road

So what? Mr Qureshi was told all about this prior to his visit
because Mike Brown (LUL MD) explained what happens at Edgware Road
when he sat in front of the GLA Transport Committee recently.

The more important issue here is not that Mr Qureshi does a "headline
grab" but that the sub surface resignalling proceeds to programme. It
is that which will deliver improvement but it will still take a
number of years to achieve. The 1928 signal box is not going to
disappear for a number of years. Its continuing existence is a
classic example of "make do and mend" investment decisions (and lack
of sustained capital monies) that have prevented large scale
signalling works on the sub surface network for decades. This is
what you get when people decide that it is OK to slash expenditure on
public transport.

Had Metronet not imploded, when was the SSL resignalling supposed to be
installed? I had thought it wasn't all that far in the future.