Kat wrote:
In message ,
woutster writes


the classical music is meant to be a deterent to the kids who hang
about the stations - its been doen at several bus stations as well

What an appalling idea. (Using music as a deterrent)
Although Spring played constantly while I was held in a queue for a
help-line did put me off Vivaldi for a while....

Music has long been used in the pub trade to determine the type of client
the place will attract.

There was an episode some years ago where a club adjacent to an underground
station played a particular type of music on a Saturday night that attracted
a particular type of person. Some of these people thought it amusing to play
games such as throwing the ticket collectors box down the escalator, with
the ticket collector still inside. There had been other incidents but this
was the most serious and the proverbial straw.

Thereafter traincrew stopped calling at the station after 9pm (IIRC) on a
Saturday. Eventually the management of the club made an approach, said they
would change the type of music and could the traincrew return to normal
working and see how it went? Traincrew were only too happy since they were
getting grief from LT management and the situation was doing no-one any
good, apart from the ticket collectors.

Music duly changed, different people attended, everyone happy.