Old Boy wrote:
London's mayor is offering public transport tips to Venezuela's
capital

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index....ID=1&subID=746

Is it possible that Hugo Chavez one day entered a ragged central London
tube station, forked out three quid for a ticket, walked down the
stationary escalator, joined the throng waiting for a delayed train and
thought, "Hombre, we must have a bit of this"?

It's one of those interesting reminders that, much as certain rags and
whiners like to relentlessly slate TfL, people worldwide whose job is
to actually understand these things realise that London's transport
system features a great many practices worth emulating (alongside the
areas where it could do better and could learn from other cities,
naturally).

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John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org