On 29 July, 11:26, "Recliner" wrote:
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
Fat richard wrote:
Going are the days of those lovely transverse pairs in the driving
cars......................

I never found the tranverse seating as comfy as other people. The
seats
are too narrow for 2 people to sit on them confortably so you either
end up squashed against the wall as the person next to you tries to
get as much space as possible or sitting with a third of your bum
dangling off the edge of the seat and getting knocked as people move
along the aisle at every stop. Tube trains are just too narrow for
that kind of seating though I don't
see why they couldn't have continued with it on the sub surface stock.

I wonder why Tube stock don't use 2+1 transverse seating? *This would
give adequately wide seats and a wide aisle, so it should be popular
with passengers. Yes, it would reduce seating capacity, but in a nicer
way than the all longitudinal arrangement. *The new Met S Stock also
features a variant of this idea.

And now LUL have admitted that there are problems with the new trains
on the Victoria Line.

From the BBC News website

New trains on the Victoria Line on London Underground (LU) have been
hit by technical problems, Transport for London (TfL) has admitted.
The latest disruption on Monday saw a new train break down for 60
minutes during the morning rush hour at Oxford Circus.
On 21 July, about 3,000 passengers were trapped when another train
broke down.
TfL said there would be better journeys once the line moved to new
signalling equipment and tracks by 2012.
The new fleet of trains, part of a £90m upgrade of the Victoria Line,
began operating from July 2009.


TfL promised passengers a "smoother, more comfortable ride, with more
frequent trains, a reduction in journey times" and more capacity.
But the problems have been caused by computer software failures and
from over-sensitive sensors, which stop the trains when passengers
lean against doors.
The new trains have in-carriage CCTV, improved wheelchair access,
better ventilation and improved visual and audio customer information
systems.
At the time of their launch, Richard Parry, LU's managing director,
said the trains had "undergone hundreds of hours of testing and are
now ready to run".
On the latest disruptions, a TfL spokesperson said: "The Victoria Line
was suspended for around an hour on Monday morning due to a faulty
train at Oxford Circus station.
"The Victoria Line is undergoing a complete renewal and this includes
the introduction of new trains.
"There have been some technical issues with the new trains but we are
working hard to rectify these initial faults.
"Once the upgrade is finished in 2012 the new track and signalling
will mean faster, smoother and more reliable journeys for our
customers."
On the technical problems, she added: "During any changeover to new
trains and/or signalling systems, the reliability will be expected to
grow over time."
Connor Kinnear, who founded a website just over a month ago which
helps people claim for journeys on the Tube if they are delayed, said:
"We have seen a huge rise, especially this week, both in the number of
refund claims made against the Victoria Line and also the number of
new users registering to the site."