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Spot or hear a certain "media whore" at Greenford Station last night on the "The Tube, Going Underground" :?:
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Going Underground wrote:Spot or hear a certain "media whore" at Greenford Station last night on the "The Tube, Going Underground" :?:
He gets enough attention already :lol:
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Thought I saw him :roll:
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I didn't even know about the program. Will watch online now. That's two hours killed :)
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Going Underground wrote:Spot or hear a certain "media whore" at Greenford Station last night on the "The Tube, Going Underground" :?:
Unfair!

I had the programme on my DVR, so I watched carefully last night. A "blink and you miss it" appearance of a man doing his job, covering the opening for londonist.com - if it hadn't been mentioned here I would not have noticed him.

As for the programme itself... typical crap narration for this type of "documentary". A "sideways lift" <rolls eyes> that "could be introduced across the network". Where? Is there a single other station where an incline lift would be useful?

And in the first part... they implied that the escalator experiment at Holborn was the idea of that station manager. It had come down from on high, he just had to implement it. And it was nasty TfL forcing commuters to stop walking - they never explained that the idea is that on long escalators where fewer people are willing to walk, you can shift more people if the full width is occupied consistently.
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michael_churchill wrote:As for the programme itself... typical crap narration for this type of "documentary". A "sideways lift" <rolls eyes> that "could be introduced across the network". Where? Is there a single other station where an incline lift would be useful?
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