We’re all for enterprise and initiative, but isn’t it a little inappropriate for these bodies like the British Railways Board, which seem to be able to satisfy none of their passengers any of the time, should be diverting so much of their clearly all-too-thinly-spread management expertise to studying plans to enter the telecommunications market – and now London Underground is at it: according to the Financial Times, it is dreaming of investing UKP30m to UKP70m to lay fibre optic cables through its tunnels to create a Metropolitan-wide telecommunications network that could be marketed commercially as well as improving its signalling system.
