140 years of hell on the Tube
Subterranean Railway Review
Londoners are profoundly ambivalent about the Underground. We dislike it, we mistrust it, but we know we can't do without it. The complaints have remained constant throughout the system's 140-year history. It is too crowded, too noisy, too expensive, too stuffy, too unreliable. Yet if it did not exist, London would be a different, barely tolerable city.
Its unpopularity stretches ...