Michael Hoffman wrote:
Jack Taylor wrote:
wrote:
Which leads me to the question in the thread header: why don't tube
staff enforce the one way systems properly?
Probably because it is legally unenforceable.
I disagree.
Other than having an LUL
member of staff berating travellers there's not much that they can actually
do about it
Yes, that's how they would enforce it legally.
and staff can be better utilised doing other things, I
suspect.
But you are probably right about that.
I encountered the smae situation at TCR on a Saturday a few weeks back,
except that the area was a bit less crowded. I think it is down to a
large proportion of people being idiots when moving around in places
such as underground station. Ambling along three abreast, stopping
suddenly to read an advert on the wall, or stopping to hold a
conversation. These are meant to be areas where people move through,
not recreational areas to do what you want.
I got into a discussion about this with someone a while back. Their
opinion was that sixty or seventy years ago the Underground was just as
crowded, but people were politer and new how to conduct themselves.
Then London went through a period when people drove into town, no-one
came as tourists because the place was a craphole and the tube was
emptier. Now you can't drive in London and the tourists are back, the
tube is busy again, but the politeness and intelligence shown by a
previous generation has disappeared.
Neill