Down the tube
Privatisation of London's underground is stuck in a very long tunnel
WHATEVER happened to the tube? After London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, lost a legal challenge to the government's planned public private partnership (PPP) in July, the scheme seemed set to start this year. That is not going to happen. This week yet another deadline was missed. The signing of the contracts between London Underground, the public body responsible for operating the trains, and the two private-sector consortia responsible for the track, signals and stations is now indefinitely postponed.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Down the tube”
From the November 9th 2002 edition
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