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[email protected] · September 28th 10, 04:56 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:40:30 +0100
Steve Fitzgerald ] wrote:
Regarding an earlier comment about why the Picc uses east-west when it
'patently isn't'. Well it's safety; the Picc has been defined as an

Oh BS. It was perfectly safe using north & southbound on the line north
of kings X for 100 years. Why suddenly (apart from nanny state
elf-n-softies) is is suddenly unsafe?

eastbound but it would be silly to keep changing the references as that
would just cause confusion. Once we know which is the eastbound or
westbound road it doesn't matter which actual direction it goes; we
could call them direction Fred and direction John for all it matters as
long as everyone knows what we're talking about.

Then why not do as almost every other metro system does and just
use the termini as the direction?

That's what I find so confusing in Paris. The lines have been extended too
often with the destinations therefore changed.

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Colin Rosenstiel