"Vernon" wrote in message
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"Boltar" wrote ...

Its not beyond the wit of man to come up with a solution that
doesn't involve incoveniencing thousands of people when you've had over
a century to think one up.

The problem surely is not the whole of the last 100 years, but the last
5-10
when the press have become so obsessed with certain aspects of public
safety
and the appearance of the compensation culture that these very stringent
measures have had to be adopted.

Blame the press, not LU.



The Underground have long had backup safety procedures such as this in place
to work trains through sections safely in the event of signal failures. The
procedure described (trains travelling at very low speed until having passed
two known working signals) has been in place at least since the 1970s and
indeed possibly far earlier, nothing to do with the press becoming obsessed
with public safety in recent years.

Andrew