tubes

the first air-conditioned tube was supposed to have left the station today.
good news for all commuters.
for the moment it is just one line, the metropolitan line, with the rest to follow over the coming years. boris will get a lot of the credit for it, even though it was a plan put in motion before he was elected. (not that boris is shy about taking credit, he has spoken of the olympics as his ticket to re-election, again something someone else did most of the hard work on).

if there is one thing that boris could do that would make london's public transport system even better it would be to talk to the bus drivers and remind them that in the middle of summer there is no need for them to have the fucking heating ramped up to boiling on the buses.
there is something special about traveling by bus. you can see the world go by.
the last thing i want the bus to do is operate as a sauna.

so boris send that instruction out today. perhaps by the time the olympics roll around drivers will not be using the buses to boil passengers.