Is the London Underground a bad service to Passengers, which you was involved in?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 at
1:13 am
James W asked:
Old stations, old traons, expensive ticket prices, delayed Cialis Without Prescription trains, and signal problems are all part of the London Underground. Once I had to wait 25 minutes for a train on the Central Line, because somebody waled on the track in Leyton Station, and the trains were delayed. Anybody agrres with me that the London Underground is a bad service to commuters, and poorly run, and why?
Old stations, old traons, expensive ticket prices, delayed Cialis Without Prescription trains, and signal problems are all part of the London Underground. Once I had to wait 25 minutes for a train on the Central Line, because somebody waled on the track in Leyton Station, and the trains were delayed. Anybody agrres with me that the London Underground is a bad service to commuters, and poorly run, and why?
The management and operation of London Underground has gradually improved under the stewardship of Mayor Ken Livingstone and his Transport Commissioner, despite the imposition by central government of the private public partnership for infrastructure renwal and maintenance. Since the collapse of the major partner in this scheme Metronet, costing the British tax payer £2 billion, and their work has been taken back by Transport for London, reliability has further improved. Livingstone has instigated unprecedented investment in track and signal renewal and new trains; new stock on the Victoria Line is about to enter service and other lines will follow. The system is vastly overcrowded and straining at the seams – we really need several new lines. The District and Circle Lines are still unreliiable on a daily basis, but great general improvement is
very obvious. No transport undertaking can be held responsible for delays caused by people walking on the line
fighting on trains and stations etc. It is vital for London that Livingstone is re-elected on May 1st to complete the job of Underground modernisation. The record of the Conservatives in running London’s transport system is dire – cost cutting, maintenance cuts, service reductions and massive fare rises were their method when they run the system from central government or via the old Greater London Council.
(And please no answers to this question calling Livingstone ‘Red Ken’. All the most economically successful cities in the world have excellent public transport systems;
the fast efficient movement of people around cities is vital to the success and profits of business, and is NOT a socialist
policy at all)
Somebody waled on the track? I didn’t know what this means? – They walked on the track? – in that case your 25 minute delay was due to that person’s stupidity, or do you expect the tube drivers to just run over people that are inconveniencing you?