In message , M J Forbes
writes

"Gary Jenkins" wrote in message
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During the hot spell last week the announcer at Westminster Tube was
advising passengers to carry bottled water with them.

As far as I know the tube has been operating for over 100 yeras
without any seriious incidents of dehydrated passengers. Have the
operators now lost confidenc in their ability to get people to their
destination within a reasonable time?

For the last two summers, bottled water was being handed out at many central
tube stations free of charge in the mornings, although I strongly suspect
that this gesture was entirely at the expense of Volvic/Evian/Whoever,
rather than being a LU or TFL-sponsored thing ....

Last summer we had crates of bottled water on the station for emergency
use. Unfortunately when we thought we might need it a week or so ago, it
was all past its Sell-By date.
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Kat Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.