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Old January 15th 12, 06:50 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Charles Ellson Charles Ellson is offline
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:54:42 +0000, Paul Corfield
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:16:48 +0000, WZR wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:37:12 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:


You may have missed this article in the Standard last week which
previews the arrival of the new Tunnel Cleaning Train for LU. It makes
reference to the current need to use staff to clean the tunnels.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...eally-sucks.do


"The Mayor will this year begin testing an innovative new cleaning train
..."

Not personally, one hopes. Boris at the controls, now there's a scary
thought.


Well he was apparently very keen to take the Borismaster from City
Hall to T Square on launch day. He apparently had to be reminded that
he couldn't do so on the normal highway!

Not sure he's got the right licences and route knowledge for the new
TCT ;-)

And taking into account how much attention is paid by some cycling
politicians to traffic lights etc. .....