On Apr 21, 1:07*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:40:29 +0100, "Jack Taylor"
wrote:

The standard of railway-related writing has, for some while, been plummeting
steadily lower and we often lambast the BBC for their reporting but today's
efforts in the London "Evening Standard" by their Transport Correspondent,
Dick Murray, are spectacularly dismal.

It is interesting to note that a fair proportion of the comments under
today's "6 lines closed over Easter" article are strongly critical of
the article and the quality of the journalism.

No longer the case - perhaps a moderator's been along?
The article in question* did annoy me on Thursday, particularly for
its opening sentence:
"Huge sections of London's transport system will shut down over the
four-day Easter break, it emerged today."

Er, no, it didn't emerge on Thursday. It probably emerged weeks, if
not months before on http://www.tfl.gov.uk/livetravelnews...r/default.aspx
- and also the day previously in TfL's weekly closures email.

* http://goo.gl/DXO66 or
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...er-meltdown.do