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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.

I would suspect that Leicester Sq being the next station hasn't been
mentioned becase it's blindingly obvious to most sensible people.

What are Tfl doing about other chronically overcrowded stations such
as Camden?

Trying to get planning permission to rebuild them.

Who are you to suggest that I would take pleasure in people getting
hurt in an overcrowded station.

No such suggestion was made. If you read it carefully you'll notice it was a
question, or perhaps you don't understand the "?" symbol.