Plus: Is this London's most expensive car parking space, we hang around tube depots looking for graffiti so you don't have to, and the government is investigating "Lime bike leg".
I derive satisfaction while reading pieces like this just from imagining the blind panic they cause City Hall, as mediocre comms top brass blow a fuse and chase around after each other trying to agree some bland non-response
Odd that they refer to graffiti "artists" when this is not art, it's more akin to a dog going around peeing on walls with tags, fueled by social media attention.
Ironically, the astroturfing campaign linked to Dominic Cummings is about a graffiti problem created by the underfunding of the transport system by the government he worked for. It's probably not helped by cuts to community services for young people who might now be more likely to go tagging instead.
Oh FFS, graffiti is an art. Yes it is also vandalism. That’s the damn point.
We can debate art theory and other cerebral circle jerks, yet that goes nowhere. If authorities don’t care to create and maintain something special then let the people have their cake. Notice that graffiti rarely shows up on things people value and care about maintaining?!?
Even prolific artist don’t support vandalizing important places that are not maintained. Apathy opens the door…
Reading this article about the damage graffiti causes, I'm reminded of how the March edition of Big Issue was a "takeover" by 10 Foot, a posh kid who comes from the Isle of Wight and gets his kids cosplaying as an urban outsider and sticking-it-to-the-man by graffitiing (amongst other things) my council estate, our local halal butcher and a nearby charity shop.
I suspect it won't stop the problem, but we can help counter the scourge of graffiti by stopping glamorising it as "outsider art", and calling its practioners what they are: selfish bellends who trash ordinary working people's stuff for their own amusement.
HTB, 10 Foot and the rest are just the Bullingdon Club with better PR.
Grading staff on the way out is hardly a balanced reporting- sorry we know Don wants him gone but your not explaining why it’s happening- Try a massive cut under last government in Operating grant- Yep, that’s your real answer. By the way the cars will all be finished soon and TRANSFORMED-I Met a guy one in a pub after work… perhaps Tom and chums could go to Stonebridge and put on a sings a long? Hey fingers crossed for the posh boys Re that civil war Don dreams of.
Semi reliable as judged by ability to deliver the high frequency working timetable with some contingent capacity to recover when incidents (mechanical or otherwise) inevitably happen (and happen more frequently due to the use of old trains, old signalling, or trains that are inherently less easy to use due to legacy design practice). We have to trust that an potentially unsafe/likely to fail train is not let out on the network.
Reliability can be improved with a less intensive timetable but that creates crowding issues for longer periods around peak, and crowding is a safety issue.
The 72 stock can be kept working to provide a high quality service by throwing money and time at it (heritage railway principles); but that would result in a less frequent service. Signalling is more of an issue, frequent piecemeal replacements will also impact service especially off peak (bustitution etc.). We may need a "Weekend Bakerloop" in North London!
'Appleton Private University is developing what will likely be the world's largest sanctuary, located in Spain, covering more than 1,100 hectares.' - Big if true.
I derive satisfaction while reading pieces like this just from imagining the blind panic they cause City Hall, as mediocre comms top brass blow a fuse and chase around after each other trying to agree some bland non-response
Odd that they refer to graffiti "artists" when this is not art, it's more akin to a dog going around peeing on walls with tags, fueled by social media attention.
Ironically, the astroturfing campaign linked to Dominic Cummings is about a graffiti problem created by the underfunding of the transport system by the government he worked for. It's probably not helped by cuts to community services for young people who might now be more likely to go tagging instead.
Tags are part of graffiti culture. I’ll take them over some nonsense HR software ad.
Break out the mops!
Oh FFS, graffiti is an art. Yes it is also vandalism. That’s the damn point.
We can debate art theory and other cerebral circle jerks, yet that goes nowhere. If authorities don’t care to create and maintain something special then let the people have their cake. Notice that graffiti rarely shows up on things people value and care about maintaining?!?
Even prolific artist don’t support vandalizing important places that are not maintained. Apathy opens the door…
My comment is about the graffiti on tube trains, not more generally, and is broadly not art but just crappy repetitive tags.
Reading this article about the damage graffiti causes, I'm reminded of how the March edition of Big Issue was a "takeover" by 10 Foot, a posh kid who comes from the Isle of Wight and gets his kids cosplaying as an urban outsider and sticking-it-to-the-man by graffitiing (amongst other things) my council estate, our local halal butcher and a nearby charity shop.
I suspect it won't stop the problem, but we can help counter the scourge of graffiti by stopping glamorising it as "outsider art", and calling its practioners what they are: selfish bellends who trash ordinary working people's stuff for their own amusement.
HTB, 10 Foot and the rest are just the Bullingdon Club with better PR.
Proper reporting. Brilliant.
Grabbing
Grading staff on the way out is hardly a balanced reporting- sorry we know Don wants him gone but your not explaining why it’s happening- Try a massive cut under last government in Operating grant- Yep, that’s your real answer. By the way the cars will all be finished soon and TRANSFORMED-I Met a guy one in a pub after work… perhaps Tom and chums could go to Stonebridge and put on a sings a long? Hey fingers crossed for the posh boys Re that civil war Don dreams of.
"Essentially, London is having to choose between a semi-reliable tube service or a clean tube service."
For people to feel safe on the tube it should not be a choice between 'clean or semi-reliable' but between 'clean or reliable', don't you think?
And what exactly does semi-reliable mean? Does it mean 'at risk of causing a catastrophic accident when travelling with passengers?
Semi reliable as judged by ability to deliver the high frequency working timetable with some contingent capacity to recover when incidents (mechanical or otherwise) inevitably happen (and happen more frequently due to the use of old trains, old signalling, or trains that are inherently less easy to use due to legacy design practice). We have to trust that an potentially unsafe/likely to fail train is not let out on the network.
Reliability can be improved with a less intensive timetable but that creates crowding issues for longer periods around peak, and crowding is a safety issue.
The 72 stock can be kept working to provide a high quality service by throwing money and time at it (heritage railway principles); but that would result in a less frequent service. Signalling is more of an issue, frequent piecemeal replacements will also impact service especially off peak (bustitution etc.). We may need a "Weekend Bakerloop" in North London!
'Appleton Private University is developing what will likely be the world's largest sanctuary, located in Spain, covering more than 1,100 hectares.' - Big if true.
Great reporting as always - hopefully someone uses it to put pressure on Khan‘s ineffective administration