Tube closed for being too noisy

Why not have the clear plastic ones we have on our platforms? We have ones for recycling an for rubbish. It isn't as bad as it sounds even though you can see the contents of what's inside.
(Not that is stops people from leaving the train a mess).

I can imagine the scene now. A terrorist wishes to place a bomb; goes onto a station; and finds that the bins have been removed. Of course, his plan is entirely scuppered without the bin, he admits defeat, surrenders to the authorities and all is well.

... or he just finds somewhere else to plant his bomb...

By making so many changes and restrictions on our day to day lives, the Government et al are doing all the terrorists dirty work for them - restricting our freedoms, removing our litterbins - in effect, letting them win?

was only about two years ago that the LU bin at Amersham (over the non-fare side bridge from the station entrance) was removed, after the clear plastic bags were brought in. I have no idea why TfL/Metronet removed the bin, though I think it was a case of not replacing it (or them finally finding it).

Anyway, it cannot be said that bins were ever all removed from the network - that one, very hidden, bin undoes it all.

Yes. I also remember what 2005 was like.

Arresting the terrorists before they get the chance to plant bombs actually works; removing litter bins so that they simply put bombs somewhere else doesn't.

I can make it worse - but not on purpose, it's something I remembered ;D

In a strange twist of fate, on my national rail line, all of the bins (well a large proportion of them) were sent and stored in a disused waiting room on Potters Bar station. This waiting room (and most of the bins) were destroyed in the tragic rail crash there.

As for how many bins have been used, it was (if I recall) only the bomb at Victoria (?) that "noticeably / boldly" utilised a bin? Bins "may" have been used at other locations, but this one seems to stick out as the one that the news reported as being "placed in a bin."

It's a bit like the bombs found under the seats of our trains which lead to the seat tags being introduced.

Understand I'm not being complacent or negative towards our security measures, but sometimes there has to come a time when some of the measures could be "relaxed" ever so slightly without infringing on security.

Every body remembers 7/7/ 2005 because it was recent and it therefore causes the focus on suicide bombers that nothing other than better intelligence can do anything to prevent, but that´s one attack in the space of the last 4 years. The early 90´s there were a lot of different types of attack allover the place, as I recall there were incendaries under seats , bomb in litter bins , a luggage rack incendary on BR, trackside bombs, pub bombs, bus bombs, and big ones in the city and docklands.

Nearly every day there was a security alert at a main line station. People should worry about what a mess the country will be in if we ever see a return to a sustained co-ordinated series of terrorist attacks.

In the days before there were announcements/DMIs on trains, I used to rely on the wheel noise entering Paddington (Bakerloo) NB to tell me it was time to get off!