London Creates Public Transportation Chaos on Purpose

First came the billboards. Paid for by Olympic travel body Get Ahead of the Games, these have been warning Londoners that their city’s transport network will be overstretched during the Olympics and that they should consider alternative travel routes. The subtext of these messages? – “Go away. Please go away."

Apparently these warnings haven’t quite been enough to scare the willies out of commuters, so today transport bosses tried out a Games-period simulation at King's Cross and London Bridge Stations during the morning rush hour. This involved creating pedestrian one-way systems, closing many exits and refusing entry to people trying to get onto the subway once the inevitable clots of passengers started to develop.