"malc" wrote in message
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I suspect in many cases the longer routes are intended to ease
passenger flow and if everyone took the shortcuts used by "regulars"
it would simply result in a mass scrum with crowds travelling in
opposite directions., but, never mind, it'sfun to laugh at the silly
foreigners going the wrong way in the smug satisfaction that you are
much cleverer than them, isn't it?

CJB isn't the first to spot this and post about it, and probably won't be
the last. And as a regular contributor he'll have read any number of posts
about serious overcrowding at various tube stations. As you rightly point
out, the one way systems are in place for the benefit of everyone, and if
everyone ignored them the advantages to those 'regulars' who do so now would
immediately disappear.

Paul S