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Robin May wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 1 Nov 2004:

Mrs Redboots wrote the

Obviously you never travel on the District line, then.

The buttons never work on the District line, the doors are always
opened by the driver. They stopped using those buttons years ago.

Hmm - never noticed it. Shows how observant I am..... and I was
using the District Line quite regularly a few months ago, too!

They still light up as if they work and a lot of people push them as
well. I think they don't realise that it doesn't make any difference.



I know that they don't make any difference, but push them anyway.
It lights up and sits there tempting you...

I can remember that they always used to open them automatically in the
summer, to let frsh air in, and you had to press the button in the winter,
to keep cold air to a minimum. There used to be posters teling you of the
change each spring/autumn. I'm sure I can rememmber this in the the
mid-late 90s.

Michael