"Edward Cowling London UK" wrote ...
Why keep an already over full train stood at the platform ? People get
stressed, LU staff get stressed, and you could tell the driver was getting
stressed.
Pointless jobsworth regulation doesn't help the public and it doesn't do
much good for LU staff.

regulation really isn't pointless - though it is not always successful and
could probably be managed much better.

While your train may be packed - and on time - the train behind may be even
more packed, meaning longer loading/unloading and so falling more behind,
thus meeting more and more full platforms and falling even more behind ...
etc.

But it would probably be better to spot the problem before five minutes
'regulation' was needed; a quiet word to the driver to dawdle by 15 seconds
at each station would be smoother and much less in-yer-face and frustrating.

An even better solution would be to run more trains - but the Picc has
another ten years before that happens - not just the extra trains, but the
signalling to go with it.
--

Andrew

"If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z.
Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." ~ Albert Einstein