I’m kinda shocked, as we’re obsessed with keeping social distance in this country as a means to hopefully control the virus. That seems like a major breach in the process to contain the spread.
You should be shocked.
There is no viable alternative to the underground for travel in London. We need the underground running to get essential workers to their jobs. The physical structure of London is such that it is inconceivable to put them in cars - the streets just cannot take the numbers.
We have done what can be done to reduce the numbers travelling. Underground trains typically run at a two minute interval. At the start of the week Khan reduced these to every four minutes. Today on some routes he has reduced it to every ten minutes. The result is our doctors, nurses and essential workers are jammed on platforms and in trains with absolutely zero space. It's actually been worse than the usual rush hour crush.
And Khan is not going to change.
The result is that the London underground is an incubator for Coronavirus. While most of the country is doing everything possible to keep at a distance, Khan has engineered the greatest possible crowding. Let's be blunt - people will die as a result.
London transport is controlled by the Mayor of London, so Khan. It is desperately hard to know how this power can be taken away from him.
