In message , John
writes
Last year our mate Ken made lots of noises about requiring TfL to get on
with cooling the tube, etc. It all seems to have gone quiet - anyone
know whether any progress has been made?

Only mention I've seen recently on the posters about carrying water in
hot weather refers to "new technologies" for cooling the tube.
Maybe they are looking into geothermal heat pumps...
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John Rowland wrote:
"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
. ..

there is nothing in law to stop anyone charging
for tap water in their own establishment

I've been informed that the difference between a pub and an inn is
that inns are legally obliged to give free water. This sounds like an
urban myth to me.

I suspect you might be right abouth the urban myth bit.

An Inn is supposed to provide accommodation at any time of the day or night;
historically at least. Most of us can imagine the reaction is someone
knocked on a pub door at 2 in the morning demanding a bed and stablng.

On Wed, 26 May 2004 20:31:23 GMT, (g.harman)
wrote:



Fountains in parks etc were more common than now. One I remember still
stood six months ago in the entrance to the park near Turnhan Green
station.Not the park directly opposite,the one other side of the
bridge. ISTR that it and others like it (big brown things) had metal
cups attached by chains as well.

There is a big ornate brown drinking fountain - and at least two
smaller free-standing drinking fountains - still in use in Highgate
Wood

Martin

congokid typed


I've often asked for, and got, a jug of water in London restaurants.
I've not been refused yet, though I have to be quick before someone in
the group pipes up for 'mineral water, please'.

I have noticed the waiters seem *really* slow with requests for tap
water and fairly fast with everything else. Well, there goes their
tip...

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"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...

I have noticed the waiters seem *really* slow
with requests for tap water and fairly fast with
everything else. Well, there goes their tip...

Good Lord, woman, complaining that the free stuff doesn't come quickly
enough?

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"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...

I have noticed the waiters seem *really* slow
with requests for tap water and fairly fast with
everything else. Well, there goes their tip...

Good Lord, woman, complaining that the free stuff doesn't come quickly
enough?

Yup, when I spend £** on a meal, it looks like a deliberate ploy to
encourage me to buy something pricier.

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Kat wrote:
Last summer we had crates of bottled water on the station for emergency
use. Unfortunately when we thought we might need it a week or so ago, it
was all past its Sell-By date.

Eh? how can water have a sell-by date. It's water, it doesn't go off.

Presumably it had a serving suggestion too

In article ,
says...
Kat wrote:
Last summer we had crates of bottled water on the station for emergency
use. Unfortunately when we thought we might need it a week or so ago, it
was all past its Sell-By date.

Eh? how can water have a sell-by date. It's water, it doesn't go off.

I've always found this strange - the water "filters through volcanic
bedrock for centuries" then goes off within 12 months of being put in a
bottle!

Martin

John wrote in message ...
Last year our mate Ken made lots of noises about requiring TfL to get on
with cooling the tube, etc. It all seems to have gone quiet - anyone
know whether any progress has been made?



Im sure around July/August when it gets really hot the idea will
spring up again.
London Underground want people to carry water with them incase a train
breaks down and due to their pure inefficency and passing the buck it
takes them two hours to move the train to somewhere people can get
off.
Here is an idea and far cheaper than handing out water to people. Fit
all deep level trains with water in sealed bottles for use in
emergencies such as trains being stuck underground during the summer.

(CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North)
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Here is an idea and far cheaper than handing out water to people.
Fit all deep level trains with water in sealed bottles for use in
emergencies such as trains being stuck underground during the
summer.

So how is that water supposed to be distributed in the event that it is
needed?

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