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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

And finally......

Happy Birthday to my ex husband (yes, we are both Librans)

I'm sure he doesn't read my blog any more, although I know that some of his family do read this (and I appreciate it a lot, thanks, you know who you are!!!)

Occasionally, I read his (no, I'm not going to give the URL), which will come as a massive shock to him, as I know far, far more about his life than he thinks I do.

Also, our divorce is finalised some time this week, so soon my passport won't make me sound like a Southpark character anymore, but more like a potential terrorist!

And finally (again)

James Blunt - the writer of
my favourite Tube song - "You're Beautiful" picked up a Q Award for Best New Act, although the Daily Mirror said that at yesterday's party that wasn't all he picked up. So, Q Awards, very prestigious, for real music heads, plus the MTV ones. I rest my case again!


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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

PPP, finally they're realising it's not a such great idea

Friday's Northern Line safety breaches have lead to something

"London Underground has issued the first emergency direction to a contractor since the Tube's part-privatisation two years ago, prompting fears that Ken Livingstone is trying to undermine the £30 billion Public Private Partnership (PPP)." said The Times today.

".......The unprecedented move has caused concern among the Tube's PPP contractors, Tube Lines and Metronet, that Mr Livingstone will exploit safety-related incidents to sabotage their 30-year contracts"

"......Tube Lines and Metronet's financial backers were given "letters of comfort" by the Government before the Tube's part-privatisation in 2002 to protect them from future liabilities. The letters do not protect the companies in the event of persistent safety breaches."

"......On Friday, LU issued an emergency direction to Tube Lines to give access to LU's own inspectors, led by David Waboso, engineering director. The team has been inspecting the maintenance regime at Alstom's two depots in Morden and Golders Green. They found a series of faults, including loose bolts and failure to maintain the mechanism that re-sets the trip cocks."


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July 7th Emergency Service honoured in Pride of Britain Awards

The "face" of the attacks Davinia Turrell gives award

Last night "Shy bomb victim Davinia Turrell yesterday hailed the heroic 7/7 emergency services as a symbol of all that was best in Britain.

Making her first public appearance since she was last seen with a surgical mask pressed against her burns Davinia, 24, stood alongside Tony Blair at the Mirror's Pride of Britain awards event
." reports
The Daily Mirror

I'm sure I would like to echo everyone's praise of the emergency services on that hideous and tragic day and I would also like to say that London Underground staff did an absolutely fantastic job too. I have never been so proud to live in London.


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London Bombings Survivor's Blog

photo by JamielondonHow Rachel's ordinary journey became extraordinary

Rachel has been reading my blog for sometime but only a few days ago chose to make a very simple comment on my blog:

"I've been reading this for a while and wanted to drop in and post a comment.

Even though I am now scared on the tube, I can come and look at this site and be reminded of what a massive and interesting and frenetic part of London life it all is and where would we be without it.

Thanks for writng a great blog. I'm going to blog you if that is ok
."

Hmm, why is she scared on the tube I thought and clicked on the link she had left. She had every good reason to be scared, being in the same carriage of the Piccadilly Line that was blown up by terrorists on 7th July killing 26 people in that carriage:

"The bomb carried by a young man in his rucksack exploded 7-10ft behind me on my Tube carriage while I was reading the news about the successful Olympic bid.

Because the train was so crowded I didn't die. I fell sideways as commuters near me took the full force of the explosion in one of the deepest, narrowest parts of the Underground network
."

I won't say too much about her survivor's blog apart from please go and read it. Funnily enough, only yesterday I was saying that some of the victims may still feel too shocked or traumatised to talk to the press. Rachel however is extraordinarily brave and a fantastic writer and very recently wrote a piece for The Sunday Times which was published on October 2nd. The passenger behaviour is a tribute to London's commuters:

"Nobody panicked, nobody pushed, though the urge to escape was overwhelming. We walked in single file for fear of electrocution. Behind me a man half dragged, half carried another badly injured man across his shoulders. We talked to each other, we encouraged each other, we even tried to make jokes......"

"He meant to cause terror, that man who pushed onto my carriage and blew himself up. And you would think, wouldn't you, that a hundred feet down in the darkness I would have felt utterly alone. But no. The worst of all things happened, and we became Kings Cross United. I salute you, my fellow passengers. You have made me forever proud."

I only wish I had discovered Rachel's blog sooner and hope this post rectifies that. Thank you Rachel for sharing your lifechanging and moving experience with us.


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London Underground in Melbourne & Sudoku

Great Pictures from Melbourne

My favourite Australian transport geek
Agent Fare Evader (girls, it's a shame he's taken, as he is gorgeous), sent me some fantastic pictures from Melbourne last night, saying:

"Esteemed Blog Colleague,

A few photos around Melbourne that may interest you.
One is a Sudoku related one, the other a roundel surprise
."

The Sudoku one, I have cropped quite a bit, but shows a guy doing Sudoku on the subway in Melbourne. I like the way he looks almost asleep while he is doing it (incidentally Sally Webster was doing Sudoku in the Rovers Return in Coronation Street last night - living proof that most of the UK is addicted)

Sudoku on the Melbourne Metro


And I'm loving the way the agency have used the London Underground logo for this ad for STA Travel about visiting the UK:

Melbourne using London Underground Roundel to good effect


Cheers Agent Fare Evader they are brill! You might want to check out his Flickr pictures too - his people shots are particularly good.


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Monday, October 10, 2005

A Literary Diversion - Man Booker Prize 2005

John Banville's just won me £40

In the
comments to a post about Booker Prize nominee Zadie Smith slagging off London because of how Londoners glared at each other on the Tube, I said in the comments "my money would be on John Banville and The Sea". Well done, John. For a Booker "surprise" winner though, the 7-1 odds weren't really that high. If anyone wants my tips about the same time next year, watch this space.........


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Underground Ernie - a rosy view of the Tube for kids

Underground Ernie - New BBC children's series - image from room512.comWhere everyone is one big happy family on the London Underground

Thanks to Neil who's just told me about a story in today's Times where the Tube is going to get the Thomas The Tank Engine approach (image from room512's site):

"Children are to get a rose-tinted view of life on the London Underground with a new programme charting the exploits of fast and efficient trains on the London Tube network. Underground Ernie, to be broadcast on the BBC's CBeebies channel, follows the lives of animated trains and their superviser Ernie, who is voiced by Gary Lineker."

"The trains take their names from Tube lines. Hammersmith and City are "fast and furious". Circle is a softly-spoken hippy chick "who never loses her cool". In reality, both lines were severely disrupted yesterday, with 19 stations closed due to planned engineering works.

There is no representation of the Northern Line, nicknamed the Misery Line by commuters. The Waterloo and City Line, nicknamed The Drain, is also unrepresented."

I love the title the Times gave this piece - "Fast and efficient Tube? It's for children, naturally".

Check out Underground Ernie's own website.


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Stockwell Tube Graffiti

London Underground Graffiti

When I first saw the pictures below (kindly sent to me by Sue Denham) I thought they were just someone "punching out" the station names, and then the penny dropped. (You'll have to forgive me taking a while to "get" things at the moment I've had a virus for the last four days and still feel pretty ill). But it's obviously 'sposed to represent a gun shot and the police killing Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station:

Graffiti of Stockwell London Underground Station on tube map

Graffiti of Stockwell London Underground Station on tube map


Thanks to Londonist I learnt that today sees the launch of by the LSE (London School of Economics) of the Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign.

"The aim behind the campaign is to:

- find out the truth about Jean's unlawful killing.
- bring those responsible for his death to justice.
- end the 'Shoot to Kill' policy and so prevent a similar tragedy happening again.
- to campaign against the rising tide of racism and the attack on civil liberties in the UK.

The campaign launch will take place with some speeches at the LSE New Theatre, East Building, Houghton St, between 6.30 and 9pm.

Speakers at the event will include:

Family and friends, including Jean's parents and his brother.
The de Menezes family's lawyer, Gareth Peirce.
Irene Khan - Secretary General of Amnesty International
Matthew Taylor MP
Frank Dobson MP
Yvonne Ridley - Journalist / Respect National Council
and...erm, Bianca Jagger
."


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Saturday, October 08, 2005

London Underground Song - has it been on TV or something?

London Underground Song Download & Lyrics

I find it hard to understand how almost anyone who uses the internet hasn't come across the London Underground Spoof Song written to the tune of The Jam's Going Underground, before. It's been on the net for months and months. But, virtually all of the last 100 visitors (and they are all different) who have come to this blog today are looking for it.

So, for ease of use click here! (If you were looking for it before it's in the right hand links). Enjoy!

Also feel free to browse the rest of this blog if you fancy it. I thank you.


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How to get noticed on the London Underground

Getting heads to turn for that
James Blunt moment

Simply loving this cross platform tube ad that I saw at Marble Arch London Underground station yesterday:

Wonderbra Ad seen at Marble Arch Tube Station


First of all I thought that the girl in green was supposed to be wearing a Wonderbra, then I realised that it's shot as though you the viewer are the one in the Wonderbra and everyone is turning their heads on the escalator to look at your enormous cleavage. Well done, to the ad agency who produced this. Managed to advertise a Wonderbra without actually showing any boobs.

And perhaps, some of you might like to try to guess from which set of escalators the poster was shot from. I think it's a London Underground set, possibly somewhere on the Jubilee Line, but I could be wrong.


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Friday, October 07, 2005

Northern Line problems - Half the trains taken out of service

Northern Line Chaos - Evening Standard LiteForty five out of ninety Northern Line trains being safety checked

OHMIGOD my sympathies if you are trying to get into work this morning using the Northern Line (also commonly known as the Misery Line). I think I vaguely remember hearing yesterday on the radio that some drivers were refusing to drive them as they didn't think they were safe and had faulty back up brakes. The BBC reported on this yesterday. "London Underground (LU) said for safety reasons, from Thursday Tube cabs are being manned by an extra driver, leading to a reduction in services." The RMT said "the emergency braking system failed last night (Wednesday) for the fourth time in as many weeks."

Now this morning this means that half of the trains have been taken out of service for safety checks or possibly because of the extra drivers running on other trains - it's not quite clear yet on what's going on although the Tube's website says "signalling problems".

In any case this is going to mean severe delays to your Northern Line service this morning and possibly all day, so good luck.

Keep checking on the London Underground's real time travel webpage for more news on this.

Northern Line Disruptions 7th October Update 9.35am - at last something on the interweb about today's Northern Line problems:

"Today a furious London Underground spokesman said TfL bosses were were "angry and frustrated" with private train operator Tube Lines after the company had failed to resolve on-going problems with the train's emergency braking system.

TfL is demanding that Tube Lines returned the service to normal
"as quickly as possible."

A spokesman for London Underground said: "There is an issue with signal equipment on Northern Line trains. Safety checks were conducted overnight.

"At 8am we were running only 49 trains out of a normal service of 90 trains for the first shift. But less than half of the entire fleet of 108 trains is in service.

"We are extremely angry and frustrated with Tube Lines. We are pressing them to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."

Plus a bit more information from Bloomberg's news site.


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Three months since London Underground Bombing & now New York get Subway attack alert

Bad timing, coincidence or what?

It's been three months since the
London Underground and Bus bombings and attacks devastated the city, and 52 people were killed and hundreds seriously injured. Right now, news is just reaching the UK, that New York has received "a specific and credible threat of a terrorist attack on the subway system in the coming days."

"Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the FBI had alerted him to "a specific threat to our subway system," which had come from overseas but had already been partially thwarted, while some officials cast doubt on the credibility of the threat.

"We have never had before a specific threat to our subway system. This is the first time we have had a threat with this level of specificity," Bloomberg told a news conference. "We have done and will continue to do everything we can to protect this city." See The Guardian for more on this.

"Despite the differing takes on the seriousness of the threat, New York officials mobilized police officers to begin looking through commuters' bags, briefcases, baby strollers and luggage."

Picture from Reuters


So now commuters in New York have the joy of facing even more security measures than we faced and are still facing, to some extent, on the Tube each day.

"An estimated 4.5 million passengers ride the New York subway on an average weekday. The system has more than 468 subway stations. In July, the city began random subway searches following the London train bombings."

Keep an eye on Travis Ruse's excellent New York subway photoblog as I expect he will be taking pictures of how this is affecting his commute.

Let's hope too many people won't be wearing these - from Travis Ruse's photoblog


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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Oystercard 2006 fares - confusion continued

Hmm it's really going to speed things up at my stationSo is Oystercard NON pre-pay being reduced or not?

You probably gathered from Tuesday's post about the 2006 tube and bus price rises and the many comments, that there's a huge amount of confusion about Oystercards and whether the reductions for using them to avoid the 2006 London Underground and bus fare price hikes apply to just pre-pay or to Oystercard season tickets too.

Here's a link to an article in yesterday's Metro which attempts to show the 2006 fares "at a glance"

It's interesting that: "Almost 50 per cent of Tube journeys and 40 per cent of bus journeys are made using Oyster, but the majority of those are season tickets.

The Mayor wants to build on the success of Oyster by encouraging more passengers to use Oyster to pay as they go, making journeys quicker and easier
."

So what's the deal? Are the price reductions on Oystercard season tickets and Oystercard travelcards too which can also be used on National Rail stations in London? Or are the price reductions just on Oystercard Prepay (or pay as you go) which can't be used at most National Rail stations (see here for list of the few National Rail stations in London which use them - "In general Oyster Pre Pay is not valid on National Rail services.")?


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How do you spell the station that's between Waterloo & London Bridge?

Journey Planner PosterAnd what happens when you mis-spell it?

OK, picture the scene. The London Underground have produced a set of posters for their "Journey Planner" service. For some reason, the agency has a bit of a problem with spelling Southwark, no one at LU notices and they get printed.

So do they scrap all the posters cos it will look really stupid?

Or do they try to cover the typo with some text as they think no one will notice?

It appears to be the latter, except they didn't expect someone to notice and email Geoff to tell him or expect Geoff to email me and then for me to be all geeky and blog it.

So here's the poster in question on the left, with where Southwark is, ringed.

If you zoom into the picture some more you'll see Southwark or rather Southwalk underneath some text:



Detail of typo


If you look at what should be an "r" you'll see it has a bit of a curve to the bottom of it - implying that it's an "l". It becomes a little easier to see when you see how it should look and how the "l" in London Underground font works (see Waterloo):

Jubilee Line


There is no escape from the random geeky scrutiny of this blog.


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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Tube Fare increase will make London's the world's most expensive subway system

Tube and Bus Fares RiseFantastic - so pleased I bought my annual travel card last week

Front page of today's Standard, although not on their website yet, is the news that Sheriff Ken Livingstone will be hiking up fares on buses and the London Underground from 2006.

"A single Tube journey in zone one will cost £3 instead of £2 while a single bus journey will rise from £1.20 to £1.50....."

said the BBC "However fares will fall for holders of the Oyster pre-pay smartcards. With Oyster, a zone one Tube ride will be cut from £1.70 to £1.50 - half the cash fare. Mr Livingstone said the aim was for fewer people to pay with cash." .......

"He conceded the new single Tube fare of £3 would probably be the most expensive in the world."

If we got anything like the service they have in Tokyo (which I think is currently the most expensive) with trains running like clockwork I don't think we would mind so much about paying for a good service.

"The fares announcement was also criticised by business representatives as being "desperately short-sighted" in view of the current retail slump on the high street and recent rise in the congestion charge.

"The Mayor seems determined to kill off London business by putting up the cost of visiting the capital by tube, bus or car," said Victoria Carson, spokesperson for the Forum of Private Business."

I'm loving Ken's rationale for the increase too: "This proposed fares package focuses on halving the number of cash journeys made in 2006 to speed up journeys and improve the efficiency of the network," So let's make it more expensive to travel so fewer people use public transport which will make the system "look" more efficient. Or let's reward people for paying in advance cos it will shorten the queues and speed up journeys (?). I think I'm missing something.


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Sudoku in Metro ....arrrggghhhh

The last bastion of safety has fallen

I spose now just about every paper carries one of those Sudoku puzzles and now Metro has joined in, and the worst thing is I actually started doing it this morning.

I've been banging on about
how many people I see doing Sudoku puzzles on the London Underground and how I can't see the appeal.



However a month or so ago I secretly did an Evening Standard difficult one (well a little bit of it) and was quite pleased with myself as it was the first one I'd ever attempted.

But now, despite the fact they had loads of letters of complaint when they dropped their daily crossword, Metro have started Sudoku yesterday



I attempted the one above this morning on the way in, and was almost going to write into them because I was convinced they had got some wrong (and that's me being a Sudoku virgin). However, after getting to the office, one of my colleagues put me right and by just getting one number wrong I had cocked up so much of the rest of the puzzle I didn't stand a chance of finishing it correctly. D'OH, D'OH, D'OH. Anyway, I still maintain I have better things to do with my time than follow all the other commuters who do Sudoku and shame on Metro for succumbing to such an addictive trend!

Answers to today's challenge are here.


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Monday, October 03, 2005

Umbrella Dispensers at Stations

Getting ready for wet weather

Some of may remember that I blogged in February this year about some
umbrella dispensing machines that were supposed to be making their way onto some London Underground platforms.

"The company will sell its umbrellas for £ 2 (bargain), compared with the £ 15 that commuters are used to paying when suddenly confronted with a downpour.

In trials at Fulham and Hammersmith tube stations this year, Technography sold an average of 200 umbrellas a month.

The UK umbrella market is worth more than £ 87m a year and is benefiting from an increasing number of rainy days.

There were 194 wet days in the UK in 2003, up from 176 in 2000.
"



Well, I've still never seen any on the Tube myself but on Saturday I saw my first ever umbrella dispensing machine at Windsor Central station. Myself and Neil were having a day out in Windsor and he insisted on showing me the shopping centre where now only a tiny single track line of Windsor Central exists, with most people, tourists and shoppers to Windsor visiting using the Windsor & Eton Riverside Station (the station we arrived at).

Neil has started blogging some of the Windsor station pictures but the umbrella vending machine certainly needs a mention here.

It's very similar to the Umbrolly prototype

Brolly vending machine at Windsor Station


and the umbrellas seem quite reasonably priced too, £ 3.50:

Umbrella Vending Machine detail


These Weather Station machines also seem to be set for all types of English weather too as they include sun wipes, and fresh wipes for the occasional heatwave

Umbrella Vending Machine detail


Wonder if the Umbrolly thing though ever got off the ground with the London Underground or did they think the outfit was a right shower? (sorry it's Monday, I can't come up with anything better)

Update - ah, ha further digging and I find this on Weather Station's website "WEATHERstation machines are being sited in city shopping centres, theme parks and tourist & transport locations across the UK, and are scheduled for installation at core London Underground stations during 2005." So will there be a race between Umbrollys and Weather Station to see who covers the Tube first or will they form an umbrella organisation?


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Thursday, September 29, 2005

First Xmas "Joke" of the Year

Guns, innocent people being shot, police, rucksacks and Santa

Nick Miners just sent me the following which will no doubt be doing the rounds as quickly as the
spoof London Underground notice about how running on the tube with a a rucksack and looking a bit foreign isn't good for your safety.

Xmas Cancelled


Police Commissioner calls for public debate over shoot to kill policy

Although according to the BBC Iain Blair "was not sure what form the debate could take, because specific details about Operation Kratos - the policy which governs the use of firearms against suspects - could not be made public without threatening the police's effectiveness."

On the 29th September Jean Charles de Menezes family were shown the CCTV footage of their son before he was shot at in a London Underground carriage at Stockwell Tube station. They have not been allowed to talk about the footage, but their solicitor said "We have many more questions to ask.

"This was the first of a series of meetings. We were shown the only available CCTV from Stockwell Tube.

"It was very distressing to see how completely relaxed and normal Jean Charles appeared, particularly in the light of statements made immediately after his death."


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Time Out Underground London special this week

Great Tube pictures and subterranean tales

Many of you have probably seen these eyecatching posters for Time Out which went up on the London Underground earlier this week

Time Out Cover - Underground Special


Well if you buy this week's you won't be disappointed. There's some cool archived pictures of people sleeping on the underground in the 2nd World War and a picture of The Hole in the Wall station platform pub that I'd blogged about a month ago

Hole In the Wall Platform Pub in Time Out


Nice to see that themanwhofellasleep has a regular section now with his supposedly "overheard conversations on the tube" specially as I've been plugging him on my main site for years now.

Plus a very interesting article by Nicholas Royle about why we are drawn to the underground things including the tube. "the subterranean world is attractive because it is hidden. Eternally shut off from the light of day, it has the allure of mystery. The underworld - tube spaghetti, brick sewers, caverns, bunkers, and catacombs (all featured in detail in other parts of the magazine) - is an almost infinite labyrinth, like the mind. Going underground offers us an unrivalled opportunity to confront ourselves. Whose, after all, is the only face we may rightfully stare at while travelling through a tunnel underground? Our own, reflecting in the window across the carriage"

Time Out is out today in Greater London or can be downloaded online here £ 2.35 for the download of a single issue which is actually cheaper than the cover price of £ 2.50. (Download for PC's only)


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Waterloo and City Line to close for five months

Oh Great

Coming home on the Waterloo and City line this evening I took this picture as from next April I certainly wouldn't be seeing this scene for some time.

Waterloo & City Line train approaching


Yesterday we received the brilliant news that the Waterloo & City Line will be closed next year for five months. The Drain will be closed :"from 1 April 2006 for much-needed engineering improvements that will deliver increased reliability of services, an increase in capacity and improved journey times.....The Waterloo & City line is 107 years old and urgently needs upgrading."

Great, although this will add at least fifteen minutes to my journey into work as I'll have to change at Waterloo on the Jubilee Line, then go four stops to Canada Water, from there I will travel a further three stops on the East London Line to Shadwell. This is all instead of the Waterloo - one stop on the Waterloo and City Line to Bank and then one stop on the DLR to Shadwell. So that's seven stops plus long interchanges instead of two stops plus slightly less lenghty interchanges.

Accoding to the press release: "During the five-month closure, passengers travelling from Waterloo to Bank will be advised to take the Bakerloo or Northern lines to Embankment station, and then the District or Circle line to Monument station.

Detailed travel advice for passengers will be issued prior to the closure taking effect
."


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