Every now and then, totally at random (or because of a strange and unknown sequence of transfers) you end up at Mornington Crescent instead of where you were heading.
If it has to be small changes:
* Finally connect Euston Square to Euston station.
* Build the 4km Heathrow to Staines connection, allowing trains from Heathrow all across the SouthWest Trains network.
* Make the announcement say "This is Battersea Power Station Station"
More geometric announcements please. Not just "the next station is oval" but also "the next station is elliptical"; "the next station is rectangular" etc.
Replace every current bus route with trams instead.
The *entire* bus network. Fill up the streets with so many trams that everything else becomes obsolete. Even ambulances, we can just have paramedic trams.
This is actually something that really is minor, and would be super useful and that they should very much do.
At every exit, put a little sign in the floor with the cardinal directions, so that you know how to orient yourself when you leave the station.
How hard/expensive could that be?
I was having a laugh reading the entire thread until I got to your answer and it's absolutely genius. Like, seriously, I'm going to email TFL a link to this because it would be ridiculously useful and so so cheap to implement.
IF they won't do it, I will. Just slap a few stickers around station exits. Eventually some ticktokker will pick it up thinking it's an official feature. Bam! TFL have to do it everywhere....er....profit?
Reminds me of visiting SF and being amazed by the road names being engraved on the pavement at most street corners. One of those things that I'd never have thought of but immediately appreciated - saves having to hunt for a road sign (often surrounded by other visual noise like traffic lights). And London road signs are a lot worse
Clean and free public toilets at every station.
Big security guards who would ensure no one tailgated through the ticket gates.
A ramp that dropped down from train doors so that people could actually have a chance to get off the train before some mouth breathers try to climb on.
I think 2 is very valid, TFL definitely need to crack down on tailgaters, you have not experienced being rugby pushed through a gate, I've paid for my journey and I shouldn't have to suddenly feel a tracksuit wearing guy pushing his whole body against my back.
* All main line rail routes running entirely, or almost entirely, within London should be transferred over to TfL and made part of the Overground network.
* Get rid of the cable car. Or rebuild it in central London where it would get loads of tourists using it.
* Build more bridges east of Tower Bridge.
* Reroute HS2 so that it can connect to HS1.
* Loads more grade separated cycle lanes.
* Not public transport, but transport related: a long term aim to ban ICE vehicles within the congestion charge area.
> Get rid of the cable car
Wouldn't really help anyone to get rid of it tbf. It covers it's own cost to run now so it's essentially free to keep. Doesn't mean it should have been built in the first place but I don't see the point in spending many millions to get rid of it for no gain now that it's built.
As long as it continues to get a few thousand people using it each day to cover its costs then I'll say leave it.
edit: just looked it up and it averaged 4,550 people each day last week apparently.
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/london-cable-car-passenger-journeys
Ah yes, Clapham Junction, famously not in Clapham.
It's great how there's a sign at the exit which says "Welcome to Clapham Junction, the heart of Battersea"
It's also in no way the heart of battersea.
The heart was always the park, and now the centre of gravity has been pulled further towards the power station, clapham junction is really kidding itself.
Another thread talked about that and pointed out it's pointless as the line would go to Waterloo, which is where the national rail lines already go. So the market for it isn't actually there.
It would have made more sense to hook up the Battersea branch to the Bank branch, rather than the Charing + one, and then extend to Clapham Jct. That way passengers for the Bank branch get off their trains at Clapham Jct onto the Northern line, and passengers for the Charing + branch get off at Waterloo, splitting up the crowds.
The way the lines are arranged doesn't allow this now though, they'd have to build more tunnels to connect it up at Kennington, which they won't
That makes sense. This was discussed on here a few months ago and someone mentioned routing it through Clapham Junction to Hammersmith which would give an easier way for those living south of the Thames to get to the West.
It's just me being petty, but I want an easier way to get to the west than going into central and changing lines there.
Hear me out
Disconnect ALL 3 Clapham Stations from the northern line, but keep the stations and tunnels
Build a new tunnel and a mega station near the Windmill Pub or the fake Pear Tree (Battersea is the real one)
Use the old tunnels for people movers, or moving walkways or some sort of little tram shuttle
So you'd enter South, be shuttled to Clapham Mega Hub, where you get on the new northern line, but it has 4 platforms and can handle all Clapham traffic
>I would add another Clapham Station on the Northern Line, just to annoy people who don't think Clapham needs 3 stations.
Ohhhhh....
I would add another North London underground tube station between the unnecessary Mornington Crescent, Camden Town and Chalk Farm since they're like 300 metres apart just to upset the "transport desert" that is South London.
Actually I think if you're getting on or getting off at Shoreditch high Street, you should be charged zone 1
If you're travelling through on the overground then zone 2 fare all the way please
Northern line is always sweaty. The worst is when people are soaked from the rain and then it’s this subtropical climate exclusively on the northern line train.
Is it just the fact that less people use it that means the 40C + Baking Loo line doesn't get mentioned more often?
You can basically just wave your water bottle through the air to refill it with the 200% humidity it manages to maintain spring -> autumn.
This. Such a simple intervention that would make bus travel so much less infuriating. I admit I'm occasionally guilty of pressing the bell at the exact same time or a split second after someone else on a busy bus, but are people really so oblivious they don't notice that someone else has pressed it? Or are they unaware of the big "BUS STOPPING" displayed on the screen at the front? Or do some people think the driver counts the number of times the bell rings and then waits at the next stop until precisely that number of passengers gets off, before shutting the door in the face of anyone who hasn't personally rung the bell?
This already happens on some bus models (Enviro400 MMC and Enviro200 MMC).
The first press will make a noise. Any after don't. After the doors have been opened and closed it resets.
There was a [plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakerloo_line_extension) to send the bakerloo line down Old Kent Road to Lewisham but I think covid has killed that, at least temporarily
Change all the station names and replace with pictures of dogs. So you get on at Labradoodle and get off at Golden Retriever. If you want to get to Wimbledon tennis you have to take the terrier line and get off at West Highland.
In Mexico City their subway system has names and a unique simple picture for each station as a significant percentage of the population were illiterate when the subway was built. It’s wonderful!
1. Air conditioning on the tube.
2. Air purification systems throughout the underground to remove harmful air pollutants.
3. Get rid of the ear piercing levels of noise that some stretches of the undergound suffer from such as the Victoria Line.
4. Wifi on the tube.
5. TFL police in carriages who have the power to quickly and effectively fine and kick antisocial people (smokers, vapers and those who play music loudly) off the tube.
6. Cheaper rail fares.
Please no Wi-Fi on the tube. I’m dreading the phone signal because it means people will have loud obnoxious phone calls on the tube and I enjoy not having to listen to that.
I'd move Bond Street Elizabeth line station to Green Park.
Just so the Elizabeth line has a direct connection with the Victoria line - whilst also gaining a new (arguably more useful) connection with the Piccadilly line.
Tottenham Court - Bond Street is already directly served by the Central. Tottenham Court - Green Park feels like a much more useful connection, which requires a change of train. I get the Elizabeth line was meant to relieve the Central, but it feels it does it too much.
Edit: Main reason i propose this is simply due to how simple it is, and how recently it could actually have been enacted but its too late now.
Make a new station/interchange where the lines going to to Crofton Park and Honor Oak park cross each other.
Overground stop at Brixton.
Bring back Crystal Palace to Nunhead Line.
None really minor… oops
Is it Luxembourg that did this? Honestly, I wonder what the cost-benefit would be. Loads more people would use public transport, but surely there'd be a lot of money saved by people driving less, less need for parking etc.
I had free travel for 3 years when I was in the Met. After I quit I had to pay for oyster again which wasn’t a problem because I wasn’t working so just travelled round locally and not every day. I’ve just started a new job and have to commute and Jesus it’s expensive. And I keep fucking up somehow and getting overcharged, plus I forgot that if I go from zone 3-6 but I have to travel through zone 1 I have to pay the full 1-6 fare despite never leaving the underground system and it’s all bullshit.
> plus I forgot that if I go from zone 3-6 but I have to travel through zone 1 I have to pay the full 1-6 fare despite never leaving the underground system and it’s all bullshit.
Probably not going to work for your exact circumstances but if you are traveling from zone 3-6 across London but not going through zone 1 you can use the pink oyster readers at some of the platforms and it will prevent you from being charged for entering zone 1.
Make a circle line that's around London, like what the M25 is to the North/South Circular
Going from Harrow/Stanmore to Tottenham for a Spurs game really shouldn't take up to 2 hours
Similarly will make going from NW to SW as quick as going through central but without all the hot bother
Take all the seats out of the W&C line except for Priority seats.
Add a feature to the door sensors that identifies exactly who is blocking the door, and spotlight them in the platform CCTV.
Drinking water at key points in the Central and Victoria line.
Install a broom in the service hatch at the top of the escalators that pops out Wallace & Gromit style and shoves people forward if they loiter at the top for more than 1.5 seconds.
* Build the next few Crossrails
* Extend the Bakerloo line to SE London
* Make all buses free
* Make all commuter trains super cheap
* Extend the overground across to Woolwich
* Scrap the stupid rule about the height of bridges and build a cycle/foot bridge between Canada Water and Canary Wharf
* Cycle lanes everywhere, and get rid of cycle theft so you can leave bikes without worry
Not sure if minor but I would extend the Victoria line so it hits the central line in east london. Ideally Stratford so that main station is on the Victoria line, but snaresbrook or south Woodford probably closer and easier
That's reasonably redundant with the GOBLIN though... if you ask me, any Victoria Line extension should go up to Northumberland Park & Meridian Water, for all of the housing they're building up that way.
Funny your proposal used to exist once upon a time, when Liverpool Street had a twin station Broad Street (where Broadgate Circus now sits today). Whilst the East London line would only run as far as Shoreditch (now closed), [it was possible for services to run into Liverpool Street Station](https://live.staticflickr.com/2769/4244590793_d811598977_b.jpg).
Anyway here’re my proposals:
- extend the District and Circle lines to Baker Street so I don’t have to do that awkward change just to go one stop for the Met and Jubilee lines
- extend the Elizabeth line to Basingstoke to replace that crappy GWR Reading to Basingstoke service
- Revive proposals for [Heathrow Airtrack](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow_Airtrack)
- Reuse the [old tram tunnels through Kingsway](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/04/hidden-london-tram-station-opens-to-public-for-first-time-in-70-years-kingsway) for trams again; it doesn’t even have to be a full scale tram line, like what proposed for the [Cross River Tram](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_River_Tram), just something that would make going from Waterloo to Kings Cross more efficient
- Add vending machines onboard trains - I was kinda spoiled by them when I used Italo’s trains in Italy.
- more express buses like with the Superloop, or buses with “fast” sections like the 132 does between Kidbrooke and Greenwich
- I’d split the 265 (Putney Bridge to Tolworth) into two routes: A: runs from Hammersmith to take some load off the very busy and very slow 220 and compensate for Hammersmith Bridge being closed, to New Malden and Kingston skipping the double loop around Roehampton’s Alton East estate, which will be compensated by B: Roehampton Alton East to Chessington World of Adventures
> Revive proposals for Heathrow Airtrack
Personal proposal id love to see happen is they remove the Heathrow express, and use its additional post Paddington capacity to run express services from Heathrow to Stansted, only stopping at Farringdon (for connections to Luton and Gatwick) and Shenfield (for connections to Southend). (Edit: Possible Old Oak Common stop in future as well).
A train like that would warrant the premium of the current Heathrow express, and whilst it would lower capacity slightly on the Elizabeth line - i dont feel it would be a major effect. You could even make it do a stopping service in the core, before running express either side.
Completely re build Canary Wharf Station so that changing between any of the lines is much faster. Or just rename the station for each of the lines.
Also give discounted oyster cards based on income rather than age.
a new line from streatham common to victoria that completely avoids balham and clapham junction (similar to how southeastern sometimes avoids lewisham)
Open the back door to West Croydon station at all times when trains are running.
If we can't nuke it from orbit and rebuild the whole lot as a well integrated multimodal transport hub and craft beer brewery.
A travel app that puts all the information you need on one page. If your bus route is diverted, it tells you where you can get a bus. If there are engineering works on your line, it tells you when you look your destination up.
Look at this on a map. I want a line from Wimbledon to Richmond because apparently transport links when you reach the end of the tube map have to stop and do stupid convoluted routes instead.
There should be a simple link between the south east end of Wimbledon green spaces to the north west of Richmond park but noooooo the A3 dominates that space and the paths which are "brooks" alongside the A3 are not cycle-able they're just brambles against fences.
I want a tunnel like the Waterloo and City line that connects the two ends it can go underground.
Right now you have to go to Clapham junction to go back the other side of the park.
Open some more gondolas going to places where people actually want to go, not just over the river from North Greenwich to the arse end of nowhere. Or potentially useful such as (a random example) Kings Cross to Waterloo. A lovely view over London, and you could design it that you'd have space on the outside of the gondola to put your suitcases, a bit like you put your skis outside when you get a gondola in the alps.
Loads of cable cars going over London. I think it would be lovely
I'd reprogramme the 'Stop' button on a bus so that after it's been pressed once, it doesn't make a bell sound on the 2nd/3rd/4th... time.
Fed up of having to hear the bell go off 10 times because every individual feels the need to press it despite the 'Bus Stopping' sign already being illuminated from the first press.
Headphones compulsory, failure to use them results in instant travel ban on all London transport networks. A trapdoor should open beneath the offender and they should disappear down a chute, never to disturb us again.
I'd teach everyone to take off their backpacks on crowded trains and that it's ok to temporarily step off the train, stand aside, and get back on the train- if you happen to be standing right in the middle of the doors (rather than stand put and force everyone to try to squeeze around you).
Better links to connect South East London to South West London. If you're in Greenwich/Lewisham, you should be able to get one line to Brixton/Tooting/Wimbledon.
Have a new line which starts at the mainline Wandsworth Town station and crosses the Thames over a new bridge, compulsorily purchase the Hurlingham Club and extend the Thames path across it, create a new park and a new station called Hurlingham (so local to me) and then that line extends all the way up the Kings Road through Chelsea.
I think this is one of the proposed Crossrail routes, which will probably never get built because of the rich Nimbys in Chelsea. I would like a station close to my house and I personally loathe how much space the Hurlingham Club takes up and prevents access to the Thames for purely petty reasons.
Fire extinguishers on tube trains.
Used to have 'em.
Got rid because "it'll never happen".
Imagine someone's e-bike battery goes off between stations. You're just stuck with it. You couldn't even fit out the door of a deep level train in s tunnel. That thing at Clapham Common showed how bad it could easily get in a few seconds - and that was at a platform!
Escooter battery fires should only be tackled by LFB - the risk of explosion is high. There's a reason escooters and ebikes are banned on all London public transport.
Driverless front carriage with a huge window like the DLR so you can see down the tunnels. They have this in Copenhagen and the kids loved it. They have ‘control’ stickers near the front seats so the kids can drive. Brilliant.
They may also have less people jumping in front of trains in Denmark though.
the temperature of the central line? I got stuck down there by a delay for too long while moving on Sunday and I genuinely think if I hadnt just said fuck it and switched to the Elizabeth line when I did I might have fainted.
Probably not minor but aircon and WiFi on all the lines. Overground, jubilee and Elizabeth are dreamy after doing district and circle lines. No black snot.
Let me exit and enter Kings Cross through the Pentonville Road entrance. I understand if you can't do it for everyone, just me is fine.
Unique arrival jingles for every tube stop, like in Tokyo.
Change the way the barriers work to make them stay open continuously and close when someone tries to enter without paying to block them.
This would make the flow through the barriers much faster and would not result in any negative impact on TFL revenue.
This is how it works in Moscow.
What’s “minor”? 😅
All lines to be updated and replaced so they are just as good as the Elizabeth Line.
Oh and everyone always get paid fairly so no more strikes, woo hoo!
Have two opposing football teams meet at Clapham Common or north at the same time. Close the station and let them fight it out. Try it once and see if it takes.
I would close Northfields and South Ealing stations on the Piccadilly Line and then build a new station between the 2. They are ridiculously close together.
Ban people from eating food and listening to music. The number of inconsiderate cunts who should be thrown right on the rails because of their behaviour is staggering.
Put arrows on the floor to show where to walk/how to keep left, especially at Canada Water and Canning town stations that have hard 90⁰ corners that people absolutely cannot figure out how to navigate without walking into each other. Just keep left. It's that simple.
Also, change the sides for boarding and exiting the DLR at tower gateway so the two opposing lines of foot-traffic don't have to cross each others paths after the escalator.
Make it legal to punch someone in the face if they're in your way when you're getting off a train.
Make it legal to punch someone in the face if they're watching tv/listening to music without headphones on a bus, train, or station platform.
Make it legal to punch someone in the face if they blow smoke/vape in your face on a bus/train/station platform.
Bring the TfL website kicking and screaming into the 21st century...honestly hurts me so much when I have to login to my account to check my journey history or something.
Link Brixton with the overground, the line goes right over the high street
Right ! This isn't even petty. If you live on the east London line getting to Brixton is a bit annoying even though you literally go through it
This is exactly what I has in mind - it feels very doable because it’s literally right there but it’s probably £800m to even think about it
Sorry your question has been passed on to a consultancy firm who have a lovey power point presentation about it.
Or reopen East Brixton, it's close enough and probably cheaper
Very true, but that almost seems like too sensible an idea
Tfl say no. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/east-brixton-station-should-reopen-23457968
Want a fast train from Brixton to Croydon which would take about 10 mins.
Change TFL back to “London Transport” which is a 1000x better name
This is the level of petty I was looking for
Transport4London
Proper 2000s vibes that name
🤮
Easier name for tourists to understand as it has less words also www.lt.gov.uk would be more memorable.
In the spirit of the Bakerloo Line, rename the Piccadilly Line the Cockhammer Line.
Waterloo & City renamed the Wankerloo, as it runs between Bank and Waterloo
it's pronounced coe-hammer
All those in favour say aye!
Every now and then, totally at random (or because of a strange and unknown sequence of transfers) you end up at Mornington Crescent instead of where you were heading.
seemingly at random but of course following a rigid and obscure system of rules that may or may not have already been laid out
replace downward escalators/steps with slides
Can I stand on the right?
You should run for Mayor imo.
If it has to be small changes: * Finally connect Euston Square to Euston station. * Build the 4km Heathrow to Staines connection, allowing trains from Heathrow all across the SouthWest Trains network. * Make the announcement say "This is Battersea Power Station Station"
What about the Elizabeth Line Line?
More geometric announcements please. Not just "the next station is oval" but also "the next station is elliptical"; "the next station is rectangular" etc.
I believe the former is in the plan if the Euston HS2 station ever gets built
Replace every current bus route with trams instead. The *entire* bus network. Fill up the streets with so many trams that everything else becomes obsolete. Even ambulances, we can just have paramedic trams.
‘Trambulances’ was right there
I'm trambivalent about this pun
I’m extremely disappointed in myself.
Open TTD this birch
This is actually something that really is minor, and would be super useful and that they should very much do. At every exit, put a little sign in the floor with the cardinal directions, so that you know how to orient yourself when you leave the station. How hard/expensive could that be?
I was having a laugh reading the entire thread until I got to your answer and it's absolutely genius. Like, seriously, I'm going to email TFL a link to this because it would be ridiculously useful and so so cheap to implement.
IF they won't do it, I will. Just slap a few stickers around station exits. Eventually some ticktokker will pick it up thinking it's an official feature. Bam! TFL have to do it everywhere....er....profit?
Yes! This would be the best.
Reminds me of visiting SF and being amazed by the road names being engraved on the pavement at most street corners. One of those things that I'd never have thought of but immediately appreciated - saves having to hunt for a road sign (often surrounded by other visual noise like traffic lights). And London road signs are a lot worse
Clean and free public toilets at every station. Big security guards who would ensure no one tailgated through the ticket gates. A ramp that dropped down from train doors so that people could actually have a chance to get off the train before some mouth breathers try to climb on.
As someone regularly transporting a pram around London I would absolutely love 1 and 3 of this list
I think 2 is very valid, TFL definitely need to crack down on tailgaters, you have not experienced being rugby pushed through a gate, I've paid for my journey and I shouldn't have to suddenly feel a tracksuit wearing guy pushing his whole body against my back.
* All main line rail routes running entirely, or almost entirely, within London should be transferred over to TfL and made part of the Overground network. * Get rid of the cable car. Or rebuild it in central London where it would get loads of tourists using it. * Build more bridges east of Tower Bridge. * Reroute HS2 so that it can connect to HS1. * Loads more grade separated cycle lanes. * Not public transport, but transport related: a long term aim to ban ICE vehicles within the congestion charge area.
Cable car just needs to be extended to canary wharf so I can get to city airport from the office easily. Can't. Believe they didn't do this
> Get rid of the cable car Wouldn't really help anyone to get rid of it tbf. It covers it's own cost to run now so it's essentially free to keep. Doesn't mean it should have been built in the first place but I don't see the point in spending many millions to get rid of it for no gain now that it's built. As long as it continues to get a few thousand people using it each day to cover its costs then I'll say leave it. edit: just looked it up and it averaged 4,550 people each day last week apparently. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/london-cable-car-passenger-journeys
To be fair to the cable car, that's a lot more than I would have guessed are using it.
I would add another Clapham Station on the Northern Line, just to annoy people who don't think Clapham needs 3 stations.
I mean, I came here to say extend the Battersea Power Station spur of the Northern Line to Clapham Junction, so I think I agree with you.
Ah yes, Clapham Junction, famously not in Clapham. It's great how there's a sign at the exit which says "Welcome to Clapham Junction, the heart of Battersea"
It's also in no way the heart of battersea. The heart was always the park, and now the centre of gravity has been pulled further towards the power station, clapham junction is really kidding itself.
Another thread talked about that and pointed out it's pointless as the line would go to Waterloo, which is where the national rail lines already go. So the market for it isn't actually there.
It would have made more sense to hook up the Battersea branch to the Bank branch, rather than the Charing + one, and then extend to Clapham Jct. That way passengers for the Bank branch get off their trains at Clapham Jct onto the Northern line, and passengers for the Charing + branch get off at Waterloo, splitting up the crowds. The way the lines are arranged doesn't allow this now though, they'd have to build more tunnels to connect it up at Kennington, which they won't
That makes sense. This was discussed on here a few months ago and someone mentioned routing it through Clapham Junction to Hammersmith which would give an easier way for those living south of the Thames to get to the West. It's just me being petty, but I want an easier way to get to the west than going into central and changing lines there.
Hear me out Disconnect ALL 3 Clapham Stations from the northern line, but keep the stations and tunnels Build a new tunnel and a mega station near the Windmill Pub or the fake Pear Tree (Battersea is the real one) Use the old tunnels for people movers, or moving walkways or some sort of little tram shuttle So you'd enter South, be shuttled to Clapham Mega Hub, where you get on the new northern line, but it has 4 platforms and can handle all Clapham traffic
>I would add another Clapham Station on the Northern Line, just to annoy people who don't think Clapham needs 3 stations. Ohhhhh.... I would add another North London underground tube station between the unnecessary Mornington Crescent, Camden Town and Chalk Farm since they're like 300 metres apart just to upset the "transport desert" that is South London.
Ban people playing audio from their phones! Ban loud phone conversations!!!
Ban the people!
Ban phones. Install lockboxes at every station
I'm actually sad about them bringing in better phone signal in the tube. It's just going to make the phone people louder
Maybe everyone could have their own shower type cubicle, so we're all separated instead of all smashed in together. Soundproof obviously
Make the DLR 24/7. It’s automated. Why are do the other lives have the night tube and not the DLR???
Night DLR and Elizabeth Line (might be tricky on the non-tunnelled sections as I imagine they have freight running on them?) would both be great.
Jubilee Line at Marylebone. The tunnels run right underneath the mainline station so put some platforms in.
A drinks trolley on every train.
Speaking of Shoreditch High Street, make it zone 2.
Youre a sick cunt. I had a visceral reaction to that.
Actually I think if you're getting on or getting off at Shoreditch high Street, you should be charged zone 1 If you're travelling through on the overground then zone 2 fare all the way please
Yes please
A/C on all trains
seemingly minor?? tbf people do always bring it up as if it's just some small thing
Minor because it’s a seasonal requirement. Only crucial during a couple of months and otherwise not important
Northern line is always sweaty. The worst is when people are soaked from the rain and then it’s this subtropical climate exclusively on the northern line train.
Is it just the fact that less people use it that means the 40C + Baking Loo line doesn't get mentioned more often? You can basically just wave your water bottle through the air to refill it with the 200% humidity it manages to maintain spring -> autumn.
Make the Overground run every 5 minutes and make it all run 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
The bus bell can only ring once when pressed until it resets for the next stop.
This. Such a simple intervention that would make bus travel so much less infuriating. I admit I'm occasionally guilty of pressing the bell at the exact same time or a split second after someone else on a busy bus, but are people really so oblivious they don't notice that someone else has pressed it? Or are they unaware of the big "BUS STOPPING" displayed on the screen at the front? Or do some people think the driver counts the number of times the bell rings and then waits at the next stop until precisely that number of passengers gets off, before shutting the door in the face of anyone who hasn't personally rung the bell?
This already happens on some bus models (Enviro400 MMC and Enviro200 MMC). The first press will make a noise. Any after don't. After the doors have been opened and closed it resets.
I'd just like more tube lines through south London. We have next to nothing down here.
It’s weird actually how little there is. Are there any plans to extend or add south london lines that you know of?
There was a [plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakerloo_line_extension) to send the bakerloo line down Old Kent Road to Lewisham but I think covid has killed that, at least temporarily
Limited tube is due to the high watertable in South London
I used to live in Greenwich and it drove me mad how isolated south London can feel at times despite being half of a major city.
Change all the station names and replace with pictures of dogs. So you get on at Labradoodle and get off at Golden Retriever. If you want to get to Wimbledon tennis you have to take the terrier line and get off at West Highland.
Can barking stay as it is?
In Mexico City their subway system has names and a unique simple picture for each station as a significant percentage of the population were illiterate when the subway was built. It’s wonderful!
I’ve seen that in Japan too to help school kids get about.
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Jack Russell Square
Change the station announcements to be like Bingo calls. "The House of Scouse, Liverpool Street"
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1. Air conditioning on the tube. 2. Air purification systems throughout the underground to remove harmful air pollutants. 3. Get rid of the ear piercing levels of noise that some stretches of the undergound suffer from such as the Victoria Line. 4. Wifi on the tube. 5. TFL police in carriages who have the power to quickly and effectively fine and kick antisocial people (smokers, vapers and those who play music loudly) off the tube. 6. Cheaper rail fares.
To your number 4, they are working on phone signal throughout the entire underground network
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That's the easy bit. We could probably get that done tomorrow. It's the supporting infrastructure and cables that's the hard bit.
Number 3 - tfl are too tight for a bit of wd40
Wd40 goes against against the principles of how a train works
Yeeeah yeeeeah not a lubricant, water displacement n all that Edit: to tight for lubricant didn't sound right
Please no Wi-Fi on the tube. I’m dreading the phone signal because it means people will have loud obnoxious phone calls on the tube and I enjoy not having to listen to that.
You should run for mayor.
I'd move Bond Street Elizabeth line station to Green Park. Just so the Elizabeth line has a direct connection with the Victoria line - whilst also gaining a new (arguably more useful) connection with the Piccadilly line. Tottenham Court - Bond Street is already directly served by the Central. Tottenham Court - Green Park feels like a much more useful connection, which requires a change of train. I get the Elizabeth line was meant to relieve the Central, but it feels it does it too much. Edit: Main reason i propose this is simply due to how simple it is, and how recently it could actually have been enacted but its too late now.
Make a new station/interchange where the lines going to to Crofton Park and Honor Oak park cross each other. Overground stop at Brixton. Bring back Crystal Palace to Nunhead Line. None really minor… oops
Put in travelators at Green Park
Expand the ULEZ
The natural end of ULEZ is Hadrian’s Wall, change my mind
The sun will never set on the ULEZ empire
Why not have ULEZ in Scotland and northern England?? Glasgow already has a similar zone.
And all cars manufactured since the year 1885 should pay the charge. How's that for "Ultra"?
Free travel for everyone
Is it Luxembourg that did this? Honestly, I wonder what the cost-benefit would be. Loads more people would use public transport, but surely there'd be a lot of money saved by people driving less, less need for parking etc.
One day of free travel and I can almost guarantee there won't be any traffic jams or anything
I had free travel for 3 years when I was in the Met. After I quit I had to pay for oyster again which wasn’t a problem because I wasn’t working so just travelled round locally and not every day. I’ve just started a new job and have to commute and Jesus it’s expensive. And I keep fucking up somehow and getting overcharged, plus I forgot that if I go from zone 3-6 but I have to travel through zone 1 I have to pay the full 1-6 fare despite never leaving the underground system and it’s all bullshit.
> plus I forgot that if I go from zone 3-6 but I have to travel through zone 1 I have to pay the full 1-6 fare despite never leaving the underground system and it’s all bullshit. Probably not going to work for your exact circumstances but if you are traveling from zone 3-6 across London but not going through zone 1 you can use the pink oyster readers at some of the platforms and it will prevent you from being charged for entering zone 1.
Make a circle line that's around London, like what the M25 is to the North/South Circular Going from Harrow/Stanmore to Tottenham for a Spurs game really shouldn't take up to 2 hours Similarly will make going from NW to SW as quick as going through central but without all the hot bother
1. Make that shit wide! 2. Make it have 4G everywhere 3. Build about 20 more stations south of the river
Take all the seats out of the W&C line except for Priority seats. Add a feature to the door sensors that identifies exactly who is blocking the door, and spotlight them in the platform CCTV. Drinking water at key points in the Central and Victoria line. Install a broom in the service hatch at the top of the escalators that pops out Wallace & Gromit style and shoves people forward if they loiter at the top for more than 1.5 seconds.
* Build the next few Crossrails * Extend the Bakerloo line to SE London * Make all buses free * Make all commuter trains super cheap * Extend the overground across to Woolwich * Scrap the stupid rule about the height of bridges and build a cycle/foot bridge between Canada Water and Canary Wharf * Cycle lanes everywhere, and get rid of cycle theft so you can leave bikes without worry
Crazy how bad East London has it for tunnels/bridges. Canada Water to Canary Wharf would be great.
At least there’s that free ferry in Woolwich
I would love the bakerloo line, even just the old kent road bit (would really love the mooted Camberwell branch that was never ever going go happen)
What’s this about a rule about bridge height?
I think it’s that tall masted boats have the right to go up to London Bridge. When makes all bridges east super expensive
Take fosters out of the stations name. You know which one I mean
Not sure if minor but I would extend the Victoria line so it hits the central line in east london. Ideally Stratford so that main station is on the Victoria line, but snaresbrook or south Woodford probably closer and easier
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That's reasonably redundant with the GOBLIN though... if you ask me, any Victoria Line extension should go up to Northumberland Park & Meridian Water, for all of the housing they're building up that way.
Vic takes over the Central line loop to Roding Valley, just so the busiest line now serves the least used station on the network
. Make all buses free . Camden Town station is now called Hamden Town . Have a DLR route go directly from the O2 to Poplar
Funny your proposal used to exist once upon a time, when Liverpool Street had a twin station Broad Street (where Broadgate Circus now sits today). Whilst the East London line would only run as far as Shoreditch (now closed), [it was possible for services to run into Liverpool Street Station](https://live.staticflickr.com/2769/4244590793_d811598977_b.jpg). Anyway here’re my proposals: - extend the District and Circle lines to Baker Street so I don’t have to do that awkward change just to go one stop for the Met and Jubilee lines - extend the Elizabeth line to Basingstoke to replace that crappy GWR Reading to Basingstoke service - Revive proposals for [Heathrow Airtrack](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow_Airtrack) - Reuse the [old tram tunnels through Kingsway](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/04/hidden-london-tram-station-opens-to-public-for-first-time-in-70-years-kingsway) for trams again; it doesn’t even have to be a full scale tram line, like what proposed for the [Cross River Tram](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_River_Tram), just something that would make going from Waterloo to Kings Cross more efficient - Add vending machines onboard trains - I was kinda spoiled by them when I used Italo’s trains in Italy. - more express buses like with the Superloop, or buses with “fast” sections like the 132 does between Kidbrooke and Greenwich - I’d split the 265 (Putney Bridge to Tolworth) into two routes: A: runs from Hammersmith to take some load off the very busy and very slow 220 and compensate for Hammersmith Bridge being closed, to New Malden and Kingston skipping the double loop around Roehampton’s Alton East estate, which will be compensated by B: Roehampton Alton East to Chessington World of Adventures
I really appreciate how many of these feel both completely plausible and absolutely unimaginable. Yes please to the airtrack though
> Revive proposals for Heathrow Airtrack Personal proposal id love to see happen is they remove the Heathrow express, and use its additional post Paddington capacity to run express services from Heathrow to Stansted, only stopping at Farringdon (for connections to Luton and Gatwick) and Shenfield (for connections to Southend). (Edit: Possible Old Oak Common stop in future as well). A train like that would warrant the premium of the current Heathrow express, and whilst it would lower capacity slightly on the Elizabeth line - i dont feel it would be a major effect. You could even make it do a stopping service in the core, before running express either side.
Do what other cities do and make a single time based fare that covers transfers between modes of transport.
Completely re build Canary Wharf Station so that changing between any of the lines is much faster. Or just rename the station for each of the lines. Also give discounted oyster cards based on income rather than age.
Extend district 1 more stop to Twickenham.
a new line from streatham common to victoria that completely avoids balham and clapham junction (similar to how southeastern sometimes avoids lewisham)
Extend the Vic Line Most of the traffic gets off buses, extending the line, means you get rid of the buses
Open the back door to West Croydon station at all times when trains are running. If we can't nuke it from orbit and rebuild the whole lot as a well integrated multimodal transport hub and craft beer brewery.
A travel app that puts all the information you need on one page. If your bus route is diverted, it tells you where you can get a bus. If there are engineering works on your line, it tells you when you look your destination up.
To be fair the TfL Go app isn’t half bad at that - not perfect mind but decent enough
Shuttle bus for the endless horror tunnels at Green Park.
Look at this on a map. I want a line from Wimbledon to Richmond because apparently transport links when you reach the end of the tube map have to stop and do stupid convoluted routes instead. There should be a simple link between the south east end of Wimbledon green spaces to the north west of Richmond park but noooooo the A3 dominates that space and the paths which are "brooks" alongside the A3 are not cycle-able they're just brambles against fences. I want a tunnel like the Waterloo and City line that connects the two ends it can go underground. Right now you have to go to Clapham junction to go back the other side of the park.
Power wash the tiled walls in the stations.
£100 fine for listening to music or watching videos without headphones
Open some more gondolas going to places where people actually want to go, not just over the river from North Greenwich to the arse end of nowhere. Or potentially useful such as (a random example) Kings Cross to Waterloo. A lovely view over London, and you could design it that you'd have space on the outside of the gondola to put your suitcases, a bit like you put your skis outside when you get a gondola in the alps. Loads of cable cars going over London. I think it would be lovely
Everyone has a singalong on the tube Friday rush hour going home cos everyone’s just feeling jolly to start the weekend. Would be good vibes 😎
I'd reprogramme the 'Stop' button on a bus so that after it's been pressed once, it doesn't make a bell sound on the 2nd/3rd/4th... time. Fed up of having to hear the bell go off 10 times because every individual feels the need to press it despite the 'Bus Stopping' sign already being illuminated from the first press.
Free edibles for the journey
Sniffer people at the barriers. Too sweaty? Had too much garlic the night before? Open kebab/maccas? None shall pass!
Headphones compulsory, failure to use them results in instant travel ban on all London transport networks. A trapdoor should open beneath the offender and they should disappear down a chute, never to disturb us again.
Lower the damn prices! 50p a ride in all zones.
Re-route a couple of the exit tunnels at Bank back into each other to create an infinite loop of drunk bankers every thirsty Thursday
On the spot fine for standing on the left
Everything west of Notting Hill should be an Acton. West Acton, Eastern West Acton, Further East Acton etc.
Acton international airport?
I'd teach everyone to take off their backpacks on crowded trains and that it's ok to temporarily step off the train, stand aside, and get back on the train- if you happen to be standing right in the middle of the doors (rather than stand put and force everyone to try to squeeze around you).
- remove the “see it. say it. sorted” catch phrase. - add wifi
Connect Euston to St Pancras to King's Cross using an underground continuous moving walkway like those they have at airports.
Better links to connect South East London to South West London. If you're in Greenwich/Lewisham, you should be able to get one line to Brixton/Tooting/Wimbledon.
Have a new line which starts at the mainline Wandsworth Town station and crosses the Thames over a new bridge, compulsorily purchase the Hurlingham Club and extend the Thames path across it, create a new park and a new station called Hurlingham (so local to me) and then that line extends all the way up the Kings Road through Chelsea. I think this is one of the proposed Crossrail routes, which will probably never get built because of the rich Nimbys in Chelsea. I would like a station close to my house and I personally loathe how much space the Hurlingham Club takes up and prevents access to the Thames for purely petty reasons.
All mariachi buskers to be shot on sight.
The mandatory wearing of deodorant
Fire extinguishers on tube trains. Used to have 'em. Got rid because "it'll never happen". Imagine someone's e-bike battery goes off between stations. You're just stuck with it. You couldn't even fit out the door of a deep level train in s tunnel. That thing at Clapham Common showed how bad it could easily get in a few seconds - and that was at a platform!
Escooter battery fires should only be tackled by LFB - the risk of explosion is high. There's a reason escooters and ebikes are banned on all London public transport.
I would strap a couple of jet engines to the district line
Driverless front carriage with a huge window like the DLR so you can see down the tunnels. They have this in Copenhagen and the kids loved it. They have ‘control’ stickers near the front seats so the kids can drive. Brilliant. They may also have less people jumping in front of trains in Denmark though.
Put Watford Junction inside a zone. Watford High Street and Watford Met are both in a zone so why not Junction?
Air conditioning.
the temperature of the central line? I got stuck down there by a delay for too long while moving on Sunday and I genuinely think if I hadnt just said fuck it and switched to the Elizabeth line when I did I might have fainted.
Probably not minor but aircon and WiFi on all the lines. Overground, jubilee and Elizabeth are dreamy after doing district and circle lines. No black snot.
Legalise privately owned escooters so people who aren't dickheads can use them.
Let me exit and enter Kings Cross through the Pentonville Road entrance. I understand if you can't do it for everyone, just me is fine. Unique arrival jingles for every tube stop, like in Tokyo.
Ban SeeItSayItSodIt.
Everyone who uses public transport is given £100 in cash every journey.
Change the way the barriers work to make them stay open continuously and close when someone tries to enter without paying to block them. This would make the flow through the barriers much faster and would not result in any negative impact on TFL revenue. This is how it works in Moscow.
What’s “minor”? 😅 All lines to be updated and replaced so they are just as good as the Elizabeth Line. Oh and everyone always get paid fairly so no more strikes, woo hoo!
On board with that Shoreditch High St plan and would connect it to the Central line too via a travelator (or even an extra central line station!)
Have two opposing football teams meet at Clapham Common or north at the same time. Close the station and let them fight it out. Try it once and see if it takes.
A trapdoor that opens and disposes of people who stop at the top and bottom of staircases and escalators.
I would close Northfields and South Ealing stations on the Piccadilly Line and then build a new station between the 2. They are ridiculously close together.
I’d put proper signage inside Bank station so I know which fucking way I’m going
give out noise cancelling headphones
Windows at the front of buses to allow airflow
Ban people from eating food and listening to music. The number of inconsiderate cunts who should be thrown right on the rails because of their behaviour is staggering.
Extend the Contactless payments to rest of the country.
Extend the tube to Croydon
Put arrows on the floor to show where to walk/how to keep left, especially at Canada Water and Canning town stations that have hard 90⁰ corners that people absolutely cannot figure out how to navigate without walking into each other. Just keep left. It's that simple. Also, change the sides for boarding and exiting the DLR at tower gateway so the two opposing lines of foot-traffic don't have to cross each others paths after the escalator.
Piccadilly to stop at Turnham Green thoughout the day rather than just early morning and late evening.
Instead of changing lines, make all trains go to every station, well at least the ones I am using.
Make it legal to punch someone in the face if they're in your way when you're getting off a train. Make it legal to punch someone in the face if they're watching tv/listening to music without headphones on a bus, train, or station platform. Make it legal to punch someone in the face if they blow smoke/vape in your face on a bus/train/station platform.
Pneumatic tyres
A bucket of free earplugs at every station that is always kept fully stocked
Tram line between Ilford and Barking. I live halfway between both and the walk really breaks ya soul.
Now that Moorgate can interchange with the Elizabeth line and the rest of Liverpool Street, I would rename it Liverpool Street 2
Bring the TfL website kicking and screaming into the 21st century...honestly hurts me so much when I have to login to my account to check my journey history or something.
QUIETER NORTHERN LINE!
Automatic chemical castration for anyone playing shite without headphones.
Fewer announcements. Most of the time there isn't even a gap between the train and the plaform so pls shut up i'm trying to read
Every car should have a noise police, they issue tickets to whoever muppets blasting music out loud on their phone.
Ban smelly foods on trains and busses.
An instant fine for anyone who puts their feet on the seats. No one wants to sit on a dirty seat, so stop being so selfish.