Tuesday, November 16, 2004
A clear distinction can be made within the supposedly unified London Underground system. On the one hand, the proper grown-up routes: on the other, the noddy trains. The Northern Line and the Victoria Line are full of sober people who deal with matters of great import. The Waterloo and City, the Central, Jubilee and East London lines also demand respect. But the Metropolitan and the Hammersmith and City Lines are frequented by clowns and buffoons, day-trippers and out-patients. Perhaps surprisingly, that great 80’s vision of the future of mass-transport, that Epcot monorail the DLR must be treated with due deference. The Bakerloo and the Piccadilly I summarily dismiss as essentially frivolous.
No serious person has ever taken the Circle Line.
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