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Licencing reforms & the tube
"Adrian" wrote in message
. 244.170... An idle thought... The pub licencing hours are currently - as you may have heard... - being overhauled (finally), with the result that a lot of pubs may well be open later into the night. Let's assume that the doom'n'gloom scenario doesn't happen, and we don't descend into a Tracy Emin reinterpretation of a Hogarth painting. I'm an optimist on this one - any initial chaos will soon disappear, and we'll be better off than currently. I hope. Anyway - The question is... Will LU reflect this in extending the time of the last trains? It's a bit pointless pubs applying for later licences if people still have to leave at the same time to get home. I suppose people will have to drink in a pub near home. I don't see why the tube should close at night. People will say it is for engineering work to be carried out. Hooey. EW starts at about 1:00am and finishes at about 4:30 or 5:00am - and what is done in those 3-4hrs? As Michael Kenyon showed, very little. The only way to get things done on the track is by line closures. The Central Line closed last year for months - unfortunaltely LUL did not have the money to make use of the time to do large-scale work. But it showed that LUL *can* close a line for a few months and get everything done. The Northern Line has at least twice closed the Bank Branch in the quiet months of July/August to put more speed restrictions in I say let three or four lines run all night long, with trains about every 10 minutes. |
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