{"id":2853,"date":"2016-04-18T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/londoners-are-having-a-very-london-response-to-this-new-tube-rule\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:56:55","slug":"londoners-are-having-a-very-london-response-to-this-new-tube-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/londoners-are-having-a-very-london-response-to-this-new-tube-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Londoners are having a very London response to this new Tube rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_13081201342\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE4L2FjL0FQXzEzMDgxMjAxLjY4MzFiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/3f0bc1d4\/2b7\/AP_13081201342.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Londoners+are+having+a+very+London+response+to+this+new+Tube+rule&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fholborn-tube-standing-only-trial%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fholborn-tube-standing-only-trial%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Commuters in London are being asked to disobey one of the key rules of the Underground: Keeping to the right on escalators to allow others to walk down them. And predictably they are having none of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Transport for London (TfL) is trialling the new &#8220;standing only&#8221; rule for three weeks at Holborn Tube station in a bid to improve congestion and stop bottlenecks. Under the new regime, passengers are asked not to walk up two escalators at the busy station.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/08\/tube-map-renting-london-unaffordable\/\">This Tube map shows why renting in London has become unaffordable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A similar experiment in November 2015 reduced queuing by 30%.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/18\/holborn-tube-standing-only-trial\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/underground\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Underground<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tube\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/london\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">London<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460976877' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460976877'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/I7aImxlrEp8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Commuters in London are being asked to disobey one of the key rules of the Underground: Keeping to the right on escalators to allow others to walk down them. And predictably they are having none of it.\u00a0 Transport &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/londoners-are-having-a-very-london-response-to-this-new-tube-rule\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,2083,760,2082,1112],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-london","tag-tube","tag-uk","tag-underground","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}