London Mayor bans alcohol on Tube
Boris has taken his first decisive action as London's Mayor: He has banned alcohol on the tube.
The first posters warning travellers not to crack open a beer – or anything stronger – on London public transport network have already been put up.Only someone who never uses the tube could see this as a bloody priority. I regularly use the tube and honestly couldn't state that the use of alcohol amongst passengers is something which I have even noticed.
Tickets will be rewritten from 1 June to bar passengers from carrying open bottles or cans of alcohol on buses, the Tube, the DLR or trams as part of the new Mayor Boris Johnson's drive to crack down on petty crime. Anyone caught drinking alcohol can be asked to stop or even thrown off if they refuse.
There is the odd drunk on the underground, just as there is the odd drunk anywhere, but the fact that he has chosen this as his first priority says a lot about how he is going to operate from a middle class perception of how things are rather than from any actual understanding of London.
Ken gave free bus and underground travel to all children and OAP's and opened all of London's museum's free of charge to the public. Boris has started by challenging a non-existent problem.
I suppose his next ban will be on gambling on the underground or nudity on London's buses.
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