MIG wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
"Businesses and residents in London's West End are facing the threat of
a second day of power cuts as engineers work to fix faults in the
system.

On Thursday more than 3,000 people were without electricity as four
faults and a high-demand for air conditioning put extra pressure on the
grid.

Power was cut off in different parts of Soho for four hours at a time."

Mo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5222996.stm


I presume this 'second day' of power cuts is a follow up to last
saturday's problems.


It must be a follow-up to yesterday (Thursday)'s power cuts, affecting
much of London.

My post was with regards to yesterday's power cuts, when I posetd at
8:30 this morning today's power cuts (i.e. friday's) had not yet
happened - today's problems makes that three days of trouble in central
London.


I found it amusing that Oxford Circus closing was part of the headline.
Oxford Circus station closes several times a day every single day,
leaving people spilling out into the street in front of the traffic,
whatever the weather.

You can't rely on travelling from there in the evening rush hour till
about 1930.


I avoid Oxford Circus in the rush hour so I don't have that much
experience of that happening. I guess I was tying in the power cut
story to the topic of transport of this newsgroup!