What if the Tube Challenge was outlawed?

CrunchySaviour · Post by **CrunchySaviour** » 23 Apr 2006, 11:07

What would happen if LUL decided to include a clause in their Conditions of Carriage making it illegal for Tube Challenges to take place?

I think that they may eventually grow tired of groups of people congregating on the Tube and running around with backpacks, purely for over-sensitive, over-zealous reasons. It may take a good few more Zone 1 Challenges and Tube Reliefs before they do, and it may take a particularly iron-fisted LU boss to give the order, but would it happen?

Are they bothered at all by the Noble Sport?

The Tube Challenge Forum would be shut down by Healys, prompting the rise of the Anti-LUL Resistance Movement and the secret World Underground Tube Challenge Organisation (WUTCO).

Completed full Tube Challenges would see challengers pomoted through ranks within the organisation as they work their way up to being knighted and revered by all the other challengers for completing more than 5 illegal challenges, and any Challenger caught would be sainted as a hero by the whole of WUTCO ...

In the future ... ?

jonny · Post by **jonny** » 23 Apr 2006, 12:45

On Friday I did the risky thing of running from Lambeth North to Southwark having never done it before, i.e. 'sightreading' it.
I asked a member of station staff at Lambeth North for directions and they said 'you want the jubilee line, just go to waterloo'. i said 'no, i need to go to southwark as i'm trying to get round every station in a day'. he then told me that i couldn't do that and when i asked him why he said something random so i just went and asked another member of staff who's instructions were 'go to waterloo and take the jubilee line to southwark'. This was right in the middle of the morning peak.

Apologies for the bad grammar and punctuation in that, I hope it makes sense.

greatkingrat · Post by **greatkingrat** » 23 Apr 2006, 14:33

I think we are probably breaking a few clauses in the Byelaws already!

9. (4) Where there is a notice by an entrance or exit on any part of the railway indicating that it shall be used for entrance or exit only, no person shall enter by the exit or leave by the entrance. No person shall enter or leave by an emergency exit except in an emergency or when directed to do so by an authorised person.

10. (5) In the case of automatic closing train doors, no person shall enter or leave by the door when it is closing.

11. (1) No person shall move, operate, obstruct, stop or in any other way interfere with any automatic closing train door, train, or any other equipment on the railway except: (i) in an emergency, by means of any equipment on or near which is a notice indicating that is intended to be used in an emergency; or (ii) any equipment intended for the use of passengers in that way in normal operating circumstances.

CrunchySaviour · Post by **CrunchySaviour** » 23 Apr 2006, 15:28

There's probably one regarding running on platforms.

It's not as though hurried businessmen don't do this every day though.

standclearofthedoors · Post by **standclearofthedoors** » 23 Apr 2006, 19:44

If it was it would be very hard to enforce IMO. Only trouble would be the witnesses and even that would only be if the banning was made public.

Going Underground · Post by **Going Underground** » 24 Apr 2006, 13:04

Do LUL/TFL monitor our website?
If so the hounds will be ready and waiting for us on May 19th

standclearofthedoors · Post by **standclearofthedoors** » 24 Apr 2006, 18:06

We will fight them at the barriers, we will fight them on the platforms, we will fight them in the carriages, we will never surrender...

editorsfoot · Post by **editorsfoot** » 24 Apr 2006, 18:47

We will fight them at the barriers, we will fight them on the platforms, we will fight them in the carriages

Tube challenging Millwall style then!

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What if the Tube Challenge was outlawed?

What if the Tube Challenge was outlawed?

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