On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:48:58 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , Robin May
writes
I think
the suggestion was that most of them fell down the stairs, rather
than under a train.

And as a result of their own stupidity or lack of caution rather than
as a result of any fundamental flaw in the system

You don't actually know if that's the case. People might have fallen
because the stairs or escalators were overcrowded.

Which can be solved by building more lines and larger stations. Or perhaps
we could move people off the tube and away from crowds into their own
separate compartments at street level. Perhaps instead of operating
on a hub and spoke system, those compartments could then go direct from
where the occupant was to where they wanted to go? Perhaps they could be
privately owned so the costs are a lot lower? Perhaps they didn't have to
run on that nasty electricity thing?