One year on, still the SAME Problems Some things in London never change, do they?  Just as you can rely on there still to be thousands of hungry pigeons around Trafalgar Square (when it ’s not littered with construction work) and the Millennium Eye to keep turning over millions of pounds, so the London Underground continues to fester in its place of World ’s Worst Public Transportation System.                           The Curse of Edgware Road  A particular graveyard of the inadequate London system (besides the disgraceful state of the Overground service) is Edgware Road- of course the victim of a mindless terrorist act (it must have been as they targeted the buses not the Tube). Edgware Road is a turning point in many Londoners’ journeys, and the sole reason why the Hammersmith&City Line has a less than complimentary rhyming slang pseudonym. You would think a station served by THREE Underground Lines would deal better with the daily commute but oh no... instead Edgware Road serves as a perfect way to inconvenience all and change the directions of trains- oh yes, convenience goes bad.

I was unlucky enough to need to travel to West London in my previous job and once we were all left at 9 in the morning being told that no more trains would run. The nearest station, Edgware Road Bakerloo Line is miles away and buses are a joke at that time of day. After adding another 55 minutes to my journey, I arrived at work to see that normal H &C service was resumed within fifteen minutes of the doom&gloom announcement.                                       Pure Inadequacy  As for the Overground, well the less said the better, not least the pure inadequacy of station staff (at Victoria- busiest station in London) to not announce service disruptions. Add to the fact it ’s not a 24-hour service unlike New York’s Subway, yet we are still inconvenienced by engineering works in normal hours. Oh and it ’s the most expensive one too!