With the iconic London subway, some good things, apparently, with more to come, according to Matthew Engel at FT Magazine:
Now, I can hardly keep up with what I am hearing: fewer than two million people a day used the Underground in 1982; these days it is well over four million and heading towards five million.
Neglect hardly seems the word. The Jubilee line has just started running up to 30 trains an hour in time for the Olympics; there is a large upgrade coming on the Victoria line and new trains already on the Metropolitan line; contactless bank cards are the next step along from Oyster cards (no ticket hall needed); there will be “driverless” trains throughout the system by 2021; plus all the station refurbishments.
