Comments for London Underground Passengers "Deserve Refund" for Jubilee Closures at http://www.londonecho.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.londonecho.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:34:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.londonecho.com/20090827563/london-underground-passengers-qdeserve-refundq-for-jubilee-line-closures.html#comment-170 Thanks for the extra info and I will remember that next time I write about the issue. Much appreciated. - Samuel Doxford Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:40:33 +0100 http://www.londonecho.com/20090827563/london-underground-passengers-qdeserve-refundq-for-jubilee-line-closures.html#comment-168 It's not the Tube (London Underground), it's Tube Lines, a private consortium that governs how the infrastructure will be upgraded. Peter Prescott and Gordon Brown are the ones responsible in the end - for thinking that upgrade projects can be tendered out with PPP contracts structured as they were. Tube Lines elected to have Alcatel's (now Thales) signalling installed, which although it has been in use around the world since about 1970, has some complexities with London Underground's peculiar 4-rail system. Tube Lines probably should not have gone with the aged Alcatel system but rather with a unified (i.e. same as other upgraded lines systemwide) system, higher capacity system like the one the Victoria Line is getting. But only time will tell. - TransportPlanner Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:40:16 +0100