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So the misery line is now the district line?

The District Line works fine if you close the Circle Line. Scrapping the Circle Line and making lazy people change platforms would significantly improve the District Line performance.

You don't say how many times you personally were inconvenienced. One of the PR problems of the tube is that it is so vast and complicated that it is not surprising that there are always some problems somewhere. How often a representative user is inconvenienced is a better indication of how often I am likely to be inconvenienced.

dg writes: My journey into work uses two lines - District and Central. Only twice in two months have I suffered anything worse than 'minor delays' on the stretches of line I use.

The Northern works in batches. It'll be fine for a while and then it'll have severe delays twice a day for two weeks straight.

Interesting.. I've recently moved across the Channel to Paris, where the metro doesn't really inform you of minor delays at the front of stations, nor in them, and not even on their website.... I suppose in my experience these delays don't really exist... the trains seem fairly frequent, and I suppose the French mindset is not to admit that problems exist.

It would be interesting to compare the two systems, however, given the unwillingness of RATP (Paris eqivalent of TFL) to admit problems, it would prove difficult.

Michael said:
"The District Line works fine if you close the Circle Line. Scrapping the Circle Line and making lazy people change platforms would significantly improve the District Line performance."

Supposedly, that's what LU are planning. See the following link (scroll down to "The Proposals to be implemented by 2011")
http://www.trainweb.org/
district...rade\\_plans.html


"15 days of Tube Hell in 3 minutes"

Stef took a snapshot of the Underground realtime disruption map every 10 minutes for 15 days. And made it into a movie.

It makes for interesting viewing, if only to dispel the myth that the Northern Line is the most unreliable!

I thought 'signal failure' wasn't an actual problem with the signal, but describes the failure of the signal to turn from red to green because of another problem.???

When a friend of mine was Minister for London, he used to get minute by minute updates on cancellations, sttaion closures etc, and said it was quite mind-boggling.

Obviously, he didn't spend all his time monitoring it, but a few minutes from time to time

Why does a "passenger taken ill" have to disrupt the entire line?











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