new 'Tube' TV series

Even when they build new lines like the Elizabeth Line all that happens is housing along the route booms and those who predict it will be immediately full look like they will be right. Any increases in service frequency and service quality just lead to more people using the lines where this will end I don't know

I hate to say it, but to me it's one of those things where the fact that it's even plausible says more than enough ...

It also doesn't work on linux

Just got around to watching this.

Was surprised that no one seemed to notice that the problem with the escalator trial was not that passengers continued to walk, it was that passengers who did not want to walk would not stand on the left. It would not in any way slow things down if passengers continued to walk if the way was clear (unless it put people off standing because they thought they would be blocking others).

Noted that they said the Piccadilly line stock was going to be replaced within the next decade. This contradicts the long running "72 stock to serve until 2030's" thread (although I haven't been through the whole thing to see if the title was contradicted in thread).

just seen show 1 on the I-player

it seemed just like a carbon copy copy of the I.T.V and B.B.C series - camera crew hang around waiting for the incident to happen so they can video it so they get a scoop and give publicity to angry nieve commuters or drunken yobs holding the trains up

when is there going to be an underground series about the actual history of the trains themselves, a sort of television version of that underground movement book

There's already many videos on the history of London Underground, do a search on YouTube and you'll get loads in the results.

An interesting mix tonight of cutbacks negatively affecting passengers and unnecessary expenditure!

The ticket touts had a mention last night. Dumb question, but how do they operate?

Generally only works for paper one-day travelcards - usually they beg for them as you leave the station if it's late at night. With the advent of Oyster I haven't seen any for ages though although they do clearly still exist.

I used to get hassled at Hounslow West, but not recently

One of the benefits of contactless payment is that there are fewer... and increasingly fewer... tickets for touts to obtain to make it a worthwhile so-called black market business. Yet more often than not such individuals are merely being moved on and consequently encouraged by the lack of support to turn to alternative, possibly violent means to find money...

Not that it makes it right, however those people who do fall away from society's wayside appear to have fewer opportunities to find money to fund habits.... or even a bed for the night. Funding of charities and local authority cut backs certainly haven't made life for those living on the fringes of society any easier or any less likely to find a financially illegitimate way to make ends meet.

As with all things if life, the path with least resistance is the route that most will travel... if education and housing were available, then many of the causes of homelessness and resulting criminality can at east be addressed and minimised. More genuinely joined up social processes with genuine funding would result in less touting, less abuse, less criminality and huge... enormous savings on the criminal justice system. Society would also benefit though greater taxation of legitimately earned wages...

Mel and I have saved two youngsters from this road.... yet its clear that this is only because they are young... add another 10 years to their age and their prospects would have been less bright, with drug abuse, prostitution, living on the street, criminality and prison a far more likely prospect !!!

Cashless payment (oyster, contactless debit, apple pay etc) is obviously the way to go, but what crass thinking left Victoria with only 4 machines the day after the TO closed?

Not strictly true, as could actually be seen in the programme; there were four machines (Multi-fares) in the area immediately by the former windows, but further machines (the smaller Advanced fare machines, and further Multi-fares) elsewhere on the station.

However, it did portray well many of the issues being faced across the network by the TO closures, which continue to prevail at 'Gateway' stations several months after the "transformation" works were completed. I had six AFMs (out of ten!) simultaneously not dispensing Oyster cards the other week due to faults, alongside a fault on one (of three) MFM rendering it useless for cash transactions. And when the engineers arrived? "No fault found." 

Avoiding further comment on the TV series though, both episodes so far have had me screaming at the television. Next week's will be viewed to support my colleagues, but after that, I'm done...