It sounds like a four-day week makes sense, and if it's the norm on other London rail services then I don't see why it would be controversial for Tube drivers to also have it. The fact that different arms or areas of TfL have different working conditions for people doing the same job at all is somewhat ridiculous, the kind of institutional bureaucracy that TfL should be working to minimise.
Indeed. That and the fact that smoking was not uncommon on the Underground back in the late 80s. Certainly, there was never any meaningful effort to enforce its prohibition. I will take TFL more seriously when they figure out what happened to Platform 7 at Stratford.
You're welcome. I went through the station about an hour before the fire so it's deeply in my memory. There were also various railway disasters bookending it.
It sounds like a four-day week makes sense, and if it's the norm on other London rail services then I don't see why it would be controversial for Tube drivers to also have it. The fact that different arms or areas of TfL have different working conditions for people doing the same job at all is somewhat ridiculous, the kind of institutional bureaucracy that TfL should be working to minimise.
Wait until TFL realise many of their stations are also made of wood
Ah you reminded me of a story I want to do!
Not to mention littered with highly combustible Metro newspapers, but I don't see TfL banning their distribution any time soon...
Indeed. That and the fact that smoking was not uncommon on the Underground back in the late 80s. Certainly, there was never any meaningful effort to enforce its prohibition. I will take TFL more seriously when they figure out what happened to Platform 7 at Stratford.
The King's Cross fire was 18/11/1987.
Thank you for spotting that mistake — I'd been reading the 1989 fire regulations that came out of the fire and transposed the years.
You're welcome. I went through the station about an hour before the fire so it's deeply in my memory. There were also various railway disasters bookending it.