And about time too: we’ve had to put up with the import of muggers, spray painted trains and all the other horrors of the New York subway, now at last British Telecom has woken up to what Bell Telephone of New York – which never suffered the dead hand of nationalisation – had known since time immemorial, that people in underground stations often want to make phone calls; the low penetration of pay-phones in major UK cities remains a scandal, but at least British Telecom is now planning to put them into – a few – stations on the London Underground.
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