How to make hell worse?

I’m angry about this too. The 2004 Madrid bombs were detonated by mobile phone and killed more than 170 people. That’s sufficient reason on its own to keep the network, er, network free.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

WTF? I thought the powers that be had decided that allowing mobile phone coverage underground was a no-no because of terrorist action (potential detonation of bombs and that kind of stuff). I was hoping that was going to mean at least one mobile-free zone in London.

edit: I need to type more quickly, evidently. Well done, BNM.

Posted about 1 year ago by Floatykatja

I fucking hate mobile phones, I fucking hate people talking on them on public transport and I really fucking hate not even having a tube line in south London to be able to hate these people on.

I see the reason Ken is doing it is because it’ll generate revenue through money coming in from the phone operators paying to install in the underground. He doesn’t give a shit whether you want it or not Juvey, he just know that people will be able to receive calls if the capability is there, whether they want to or not. He’d better build me a bloody comprehensive south London tube network with the proceeds, the fecker.

sorry luv i cant go south of the river at this time of the century

Posted about 1 year ago by Heftmaid_

Why?

I see the underground as a get out from mobile calls – means I can sit (usually) and read my paper/book without someone chatting away on a one sided conversation.

I get enough of mobiles while at work, on the bus or train without more on the underground.

Shock horror – what if the Drain line experiment worked and mobile access was installed over the entire network, would TfL have to put some ‘quiet’ carriages in the train, like main line operators do??

Posted about 1 year ago by cobo04

I’m dubious as to whether online petitions make the slightest bit of difference to anything at all, but if you feel the need to rage impotently against this evil scheme, go here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mobiles-on-tube/

Posted about 1 year ago by mollusk

I’ll text them in the morning.

Only kidding, of course. I’ve just signed the pointless petition.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

Online petitions. Pffft. Although I think the author of this one has never actually been underground…

“The tube is one of the last bastions of civilisation where it is still possible to sit and quietly read a book or newspaper on the way to or from work, without some appalling and inconsiderate person loudly discussing details of their tedious private life or other such trivial subject matter.”

Living in cloud cuckoo land. And why the hell all the anonymous signatures? Not exactly euthanasia is it? BNM (mmm) you signed it as anonymous didn’t you?

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

The line was built to ferry Surrey’s CEOs from Waterloo to the City quickly, these guys work 25hr days yet can’t even be expected to walk unaided, hence the travelators for them. I suspect they’ve been lobbying hard for mobile connections as 5 minutes out of the network could mean the whole Oudigawa deal collapses and they’ll never get to recapitalise Lassiters. .

On South London’s tubes, or lack of. That’s why we have a better overland train network than the north, to compensate(or rather, the tube network was to compensate the north for the lack of a decent overland network). If they slap a roundel on the side and call it the Cosmopolitan Line, will that suffice? 5 years living north, 10 years living south, much prefer the latter’s transport network to be honest, I don’t have to go down rabbit holes to get from A to B, and both the buses and overland trains are more reliable, the latter generally cleaner.

What would be a good name for a S.London tube line? New thread? And how do you mark and footnote on here?

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

S. London line…Superfluous Line? The South London Line? The Outback Line?¹

fn1Does this work?

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

Hmmm. Half of it does…

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

The “stops running far too early to get home without a night bus line”.

Posted about 1 year ago by Morals

My last train to Lewisham leaves London Bridge at 1.08am, that’s as good as any tube line ain’t it?

Anyway, the tube’s full of tourists, as is North London. South London isn’t. I think there’s a link.

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

LU hates you. They really really hate you.

The new trains have fewer seats. So you’re going to be stuck in a tunnel in a meat-box crammed with more people (and therefore more heat) than ever and now they are going to be yammering on their mobiles competing to shout down the line to tell people that they are stuck in the tunnel.

I predict a riot.

Posted about 1 year ago by DangerMouse

I predict more bombs. The “suicide free” variety.

Thursday is a good day to be late for work ;-)

Posted about 1 year ago by purpaboo