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These sort of things make me laugh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4227212.stm

Strangely enough it doesn't mention Leicester Sq so I assume that
that station is equally overcrowded and can't cope. Perhaps Ken
could introduce a congestion charge or even pay for escalators.


You'd make yourself look less of a prat if you had bothered to read
the article and to understand it.
Ok my understanding is that TfL are encouraging passngers not to use
Covent Garden tube at the weekend due to overcrowding.
Covent Garden is the busiest tube station that is exclusively served
by lifts.
TfL are encouraging passengers to use Charing Cross, Embankment and
Holburn (but strangely not Leicester Sq).


The opening paragraph states "Transport chiefs are urging people to
reduce congestion at Covent Garden Tube station by using other forms
of travel".

Is my understanding ok, what have I not understood?

If your level of understanding is such why does the story make you
laugh?
So why shouldn't that make me laugh.

Given that it's a simple request to avoid a particular station that has
restricted capacity and offers some alternatives I'm trying to work out how
it makes the "joke of the week" list, or may be you're one of these loons
who laughs at everything?

Do we need to get the permission
of the Newsgroup police to find soemthing amusing now.

So you are paranoid as well as finding everything amusing, an interesting
combination.

No comment then on a situation where passengers are being expected not
to use the closest public transport due to, well erh, congestion.

If you drive a car and hear a radio report saying that a particular area is
congested do you also find that amusing or do you find another route?
Presumably you would also find it amusing if the station became so
overcrowded that people got hurt?


Really inspires confidence that we have the Olympics in 7 years time.

Absolutetly, it shows that the people responsibler are taking note of
problems and doing something about it, beyond killing themselves laughing at
other people's discomfort..
If I had said this ironic rather than this makes me laugh would you
have been happier. I agree that it is hardly joke of the week, but now
I am paranoid, I think that that can be better aimed in your direction.
Can you give an explanation as to why Leicester Sq isn't listed as an
alternative or come to that Tottenham Court Rd or Temple. Both the
latter are equi distance to Holborn or Embankment.
What are Tfl doing about other chronically overcrowded stations such as
Camden?
Who are you to suggest that I would take pleasure in people getting
hurt in an overcrowded station.
Now who is a pratt.

Kevin