On Oct 29, 11:51*am, wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:07 -0000

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
wrote:

The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is
it really worth having it open?

Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting
East London to South London without the need to go through the centre.

Not sure if its been mentioned already , but did anyone see that Inside Out
program the other day which compared the idiotic closures of lines for
maintenance against the regime in Paris where they were converting an
entire line to automatic operation without disrupting the service at all?
Everything was done at night. They compared the can-do attitude of the
people there with the standard issue whinging and moaning of the people
from Tubelines. Sometimes its embarrasing to be British.

e.g. when our media lie that public transport quality / worker
morale / can-do-ism is lower here than in bleedin' France.

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John Band
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