Down the Tube

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Strikes and the threat of strikes, breakdowns, signal failures, crumblingnfrastructure and rising crime - for every Londoner, and many commuters, too,he disastrous condition of London's underground system is a daily reminderf the political and managerial failures that have brought a critical publicervice to the verge of collapse. Now that the Labour government hasommitted the future of the Tube to the Treasury's Public/Private Partnershipcheme, the question is: in 2013 will we see as promised, a refurbished andevitalised system? Or will we be lamenting yet another instalment in a longitany of failure?;Christian Wolmar is not optimistic - indeed, he sees everyrospect of a reprise of the consequences that flowed from the privatisationf the railways, which he analysed in his previous book "Broken Rail". So how,e asks, did we get into this situation? Why was the Tube starved ofnvestment by successive governments over so many years? How did the presentovernment allow it to become a political football, a vehicle for "punishing"en Livingstone for the humiliation he had imposed upon them in London's

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