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Escalators!?!
On Sunday I took my folding bike on the central line at shepherds bush (folded it to get past the station staff). Once on the platform I unfolded it because using the wheels is a lot easier than carrying... When a train came, I boarded, and the driver over the tannoy told me to get off cos I had a bike. Wanker. Anyway, live and learn about that. The next train was no problem, I just boarded with the bike folded.
When I got off at Notting Hill, I took the bike up the escalator, unfolded (much easier than carrying the damn thing folded). However, by the look of the woman at the top, unfolded bikes are the cause of instantaneous heart failure and cataclysmic explosions.
On to my point and reason for posting:
Apparently unfolded bikes are banned on many sections of the tube due to escalators "we don't have insurance for you to take bikes on them". Who knew.
And I just realised something. This means there is not a single escalator on the Circle or Hammersmith+City line! Ever seen one?