Regent's Park

Close but no cigar.
Saturday morning - 9ish.

WTF?
Brand new lifts in a brand new shaft.

Teething troubles are common yes, but when the ole public image is already extremely low [of Metronot] , this incident wont help!

yep or the ones at hampstead that turn your stomach inside out!

The Broadway lifts also have a voice which says "Stand clear of the doors please." in a way that really belongs in tube stock, as well as a graph of line performance over the past week.

Before anyone accuses me of breaking in the night, meetings of the Friends of LT museum have been held there for the past year and a bit as the museum is in pieces. The seventh floor is rather nice.

I called in here on Sunday. Whilst the overall impression is good, many small things let it down. Tiling missing here and there.

Far too many PAs though!

For those who have not seen it, here is a view of the n/b platform at Regents Park....

davidhenderson.fotopic.net/p42681694.html

There is a problem at Regents Park and Queensway where the pressure wave caused by a train in the tunnel is pushing against the lift doors and activating emergency equipment.

I wandered through last saturday.
I like the way that supervisors have stuck Service Information boards in front of the glass windows so they can carry on taking their naps in peace.

Data Protection, That sounds like rubbish to me. I thought that having them very visible would deter people from crime as CCTV is very prominant.

Sadly the data protection reply is quite valid - although I obviously don't know if it is the primary reasons for the boards

It is also against guidelines to review a tape/ CCTV within public view as well.

This is complete balderdash because just about any other public building that has CCTV have the CCTV monitors in plain view all the time.

Walk into any superstore and you will see the monitor screens far more prominently than you will be able to see the cameras themselves! Woolworths back in the late 70s pioneered these things - in colour, no less.

Then there are fast food restaurants, petrol stations and the like which will often have a monitor next to the till(s) showing a split-screen of all the CCTV camera feeds.

I am no lawyer but I know that the laws LUL have to abide by must be exactly the same laws that the rest of industry and the rest of this country have to abide by aswell; therefore if CCTV monitors in public view is NOT a legal issue for Woolworths, New Look, KFC or BP, it is NOT a legal issue for LUL either. Some misguided individual with more power than they deserve simply *thinks* it is.

The only valid reason LUL would not want their CCTV images to be seen so easily would be because of security concerns (as if people would try to work out 'blind' spots in their coverage). Which would be a valid explanation, but for some reason the above totally implausible explanation is given instead which just makes the decision-makers sound like plonkers, when they're very probably not. But then, if they feel the public can't be trusted, then by extension they believe the public can't be trusted with the truth, and are even willing to make themselves sound foolish in order to protect that truth.