Alcohol Ban for Passengers

I see LU's guidelines to staff have been unveiled. Basically "don't get involved" and "don't delay trains" as predicted.

Precisely - "don't enforce it". What I found interesting is that I assumed that unsealed bottles of alcohol would be banned but this is not the case. So if the passenger screws the lid back on or puts the cork in they can carry on with the item regardless. Surely that is just ridiculous and makes a mockery of the rules? Just as predictable is that LU intends to police the ban through "frequent PA messages". Is there actually any time left for more PA anouncements? It sometimes seems that when travelling on LU there is one long recorded PA message very occasionally interupted by short periods of silence. So the "booze broadcast" will join all the others hectoring passengers about unattended items, about not smoking on "stations and LRT(sic) bus stations" (don't think it's banned at Becontree Heath but there you go, and what's LRT nowadays - Edinburgh?), that buskers are illegal (not if licensed, matey), of standing behind the yellow line at all times (even when the train has stopped?), of the need to touch in and out in order to "pay the correct fare" (formerly "pay the cheapest fare"), of how "Oyster can be of best value to you", that planned engineering work is taking place this weekend "as part of the TFL investment programme" (actually the government's PPP agreed between LRT and the Infracos whilst TFL sat impotently on the sidelines), that "good (sic) services" are operating on all LU lines and now the latest torment, the automatic verbal version of the train describer board "the....next....train.....is..a..District Line train....in ......two...minutes......" * There's no escape even when you board a train as not only is there the standard DVA, but this is more often than not augmented by additional "tourist" DVA information, and now repeated driver-initiated stuff like "this train is being held at a red signal" (yes, but why?) or "held to provide a regular service" (which really irritates existing passengers!) within 15 seconds of coming to a halt. Btw I'm well aware that frontline staff are mandated to do this sort of thing and also know where the actual blame lies.

* = plus the occasional actual real time service message