Every time we have a long period of (relative) economic prosperity, we get higher levels of employment and, ergo, more traffic on the tube. TfL’s bacon is always saved at the last minute just when the tube is fit to burst and there is no more capacity with a nice sharp recession to reduce traffic volumes. Phew! that puts back the need for serious investment!

So along comes Brownie and "ends boom and bust". What are we to do? How are we to cope with ever-rising volumes if he won’t give us the mountains of dosh needed to deal with the problem.

I’ve never trusted that man you know….

Toodle Pip!
PG

The man is a genius, I tell you what.

London is full of shits. If the terrorists scare some away, so much the better. Unfortunately they seem merely to have scared them onto the roads, which are infinitely more dangerous than the underground anyway. Yet more evidence that people are stupid.

I once encountered a real demo made up entirely of policemen, in Vienna – it was strangely lacklustre and less well-drilled than the anarchist ones..although maybe those were full of undercover cops and the police one was all undercover anarchists…

A. No beacuse I have enough roughage in my diet

Presumably, but I’d hope the quoted figures are appropriately seasonally adjusted!

I doubt people have much choice about going to work whereas the weekend shopping crowd do have a choice. Also, although office workers could cycle to work rather than taking the tube i suspect the large no of careless drivers around would somewhat deter them!