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Why People Won't Use Public Transport in London
It's been quite a while since I regularly used the tube, but one thing
not to my taste was buskers in the carriages. There were two in particular: the first was a scruffy yob with a crap guitar who plagued the Piccadilly line from Heathrow - the incoming tourists loved him "Gee so this is London's cool music scene"; the second was a travelling band of Peruvian (?) players in national dress, complete with drums and panpipes, who used the District line in the central area, and were quite intrusive when pasing the hat round at the end. The right place for buskers is at the end of the escalators or in the interchange areas (not platforms) where you are free to give them something or not, and are not forced to listen to them for long. ISTR LUL now has some sort of "Approved Busker" scheme of this nature, but do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? |
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Robert Eves wrote:
(snip) do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? I have only experienced this on one occasion in London (it's much more common on the Paris Metro). You are more likely, in my experience, to encounter beggars, sometimes a woman carrying a child, on tube trains, though even these are uncommon. -- John Ray, London UK. Mail to mefp49 is unlikely to be read. I can be contacted at xcf70 (same ISP). |
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In article , Robert Eves wrote:
do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? Yes, especially on the District Line for some reason. I regularly take it from East Putney to the City, and I often come across two scruffy blokes with a guitar and a pair of bongos, who regail the passengers to such home-grown classics as "You Can't Have A Shave In A Toilet". I turn up my Minidisc and ignore them as best I can. I like to be left in peace and quiet when travelling. -- | grendel [at] durge [dot] org | web technologist | london, uk | "It's people like you what cause unrest" |
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Grendel writes In article , Robert Eves wrote: do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages? Yes, especially on the District Line for some reason. I regularly take it from East Putney to the City, and I often come across two scruffy blokes with a guitar and a pair of bongos, who regail the passengers to such home-grown classics as "You Can't Have A Shave In A Toilet". I turn up my Minidisc and ignore them as best I can. I like to be left in peace and quiet when travelling. There is a major begging problem on the Picc from Heathrow to Hammersmith with lots of begging gangs working the section of line' I was going through one of the central London stations last week and heard an announcement about beggars on the Northern causing service problems by refusing to leave the train and fighting with Police and LU staff. Sorry, can't remember what station I was at - possibly KX? I think that drivers should make regular announcements re beggars on the trains asking people not to give money to them. -- Andrew Electronic communications can be altered and therefore the integrity of this communication can not be guaranteed. Views expressed in this communication are those of the author and not associations or companies I am involved with. |
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Andrew P Smith wrote the following in:
I think that drivers should make regular announcements re beggars on the trains asking people not to give money to them. I don't! The last thing I want to hear is another routine announcement on top of the "We are currently operating a good service on..." ones. Those ones are getting rather annoying, can't they make them only when there are problems? -- message by Robin May, enforcer of sod's law. The Hutton Report is a whitewash! Long live the BBC! To annoy people in a slow lift: run up the stairs faster than the lift moves and press the lift call button on each floor. |
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writes Andrew P Smith wrote the following in: I think that drivers should make regular announcements re beggars on the trains asking people not to give money to them. I don't! The last thing I want to hear is another routine announcement on top of the "We are currently operating a good service on..." ones. Those ones are getting rather annoying, can't they make them only when there are problems? LU has been heavily criticised in the past for providing no information to the passengers about problems. I agree with you that there are now too many announcements about service etc but I feel an on train announcement re beggars every 20 mins or so would not be amiss. -- Andrew Electronic communications can be altered and therefore the integrity of this communication can not be guaranteed. Views expressed in this communication are those of the author and not associations or companies I am involved with. |
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Andrew P Smith wrote the following in:
LU has been heavily criticised in the past for providing no information to the passengers about problems. I agree with you that there are now too many announcements about service etc but I feel an on train announcement re beggars every 20 mins or so would not be amiss. I've only really seen beggars on trains on the Heathrow section of the Piccadilly line, the NLL and occasionally on the District line. I'd be very annoyed if I was constantly being warned about beggars that I never see, especially seeing as when I have encountered beggars no one has given them money anyway. -- message by Robin May, enforcer of sod's law. The Hutton Report is a whitewash! Long live the BBC! To annoy people in a slow lift: run up the stairs faster than the lift moves and press the lift call button on each floor. |
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Robin May wrote:
Andrew P Smith wrote the following in: I think that drivers should make regular announcements re beggars on the trains asking people not to give money to them. I don't! The last thing I want to hear is another routine announcement on top of the "We are currently operating a good service on..." ones. Those ones are getting rather annoying, can't they make them only when there are problems? Because it's not "customer friendly". |
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