Boltar wrote:
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

Well that certainly explains the delays. Is there any particular
reason
for keeping
this absurd pantomime or is it just a case of the
thats-how-its-always-been-done
mentality?


Undoubtedly, with the application of different technology, there are
different ways of doing it, one such scheme was being developed for the
Jubilee Line extension. However, apart from the JLE, central Government has
starved LU of investement funds since 1984.