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The London
Underground
The London Underground is an underground railway system and is also known as a
rapid transit system. It serves a very large part of Greater London, United
Kingdom and even some other neighbouring areas. The Underground is one of the
farthest reaching and oldest systems in the world. And despite the name
"Underground", over fifty percent of the rail network is actually above ground.
More popular local names include the Underground and the Tube.
Most of the system was built without any thought to the disabled or people with
mobility issues unfortunately. Due to this fact most of the older stations are
therefore not accessible to disabled people. The more recent stations have
therefore been designed with accessibility in mind, but adding accessibility
features to old stations is not only extremely expensive and difficult, but
often impossible in most stations. Even in the stations that have escalators
and/or lifts, there is a step between the platform and escalator or lift
landings, which of course is a large problem for accessibility. Keep this in
mind when traveling the Underground if you have some sort of accessibility
problem, and be sure to ask a station about where you can find easy access
depending on where you are traveling from and too.
The Underground carries an amazing billion or so passengers per year. It is an
extremely safe form of mass transport, with rarely more than a single accident
resulting in a fatality for every few hundred million trips. There are always
multiple safety warnings given, such as the warnings for passengers to stay
behind the yellow safety line. Simply being cautious and listening to the safety
warnings can ensure a safe trip along the underground. Smoking was actually
allowed in marked carriages on the trains until when in the middle of 1987
smoking was banned for a trial period in the Underground, and this ban was
finally made permanent due to a major fire that occurred later that year, so be
sure that even if you see someone lighting up, you do not. Personal photography
is allowed in the public sections of the Underground. But keep in mind that due
to the danger they pose in the large groups of travelers found in the
Underground, that the use of supports such as tripods is forbidden. Flash
photography is not allowed, due to the danger that it could distract the train
drivers or disrupt the Undergrounds fire-detection equipment. Be sure to abide
the rules of traveling the Underground, for violation of these laws can result
in heavy fines.
There are of course staffed ticket offices, some of which are unfortunately open
only during certain times of the day. For this reason, there are ticket machines
that are accessible at any time. Some machines that sell a limited range of
tickets will accept nothing but coins, while other machines will accept bank
notes and coins, and will most usually give change. These machines will usually
accept credit cards as well, while some of the newer machines accept nothing but
cards.
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