{"id":1684329,"date":"2016-01-16T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2016\/01\/16\/london-underground-the-tube-at-a-standstill-why\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T23:38:20","slug":"london-underground-the-tube-at-a-standstill-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/london-underground-the-tube-at-a-standstill-why\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground The tube at a standstill why&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Underground<\/p>\n<p>The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s British lore: on escalators, you stand on the right and walk on the left. So why did the London Underground ask grumpy commuters to stand on both sides? And could it help avert a looming congestion crisis?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the Jubilee line, if they have to reopen the door because you\u2019re caught, that\u2019s a 30-second delay. And then you have a gap in front, and a knock-on effect, and it gets bigger and bigger, and before you know it, there\u2019s a five-minute delay going through central London. But I was in the habit, and it took me a good month or so to stop myself doing it. How are you going to stop the customers who don\u2019t even understand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/jan\/16\/the-tube-at-a-standstill-why-tfl-stopped-people-walking-up-the-escalators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Underground The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators It\u2019s British lore: on escalators, you stand on the right and walk on the left. So why did the London Underground ask grumpy commuters to stand on both sides? And could it help avert a looming congestion crisis? \u201cOn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[478,427,475,479,477,476],"views":754,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684560,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684329\/revisions\/1684560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}