London tubes - a mess?

I have been reading a recent post on boingboing about some who wrote a program (ok, a script) to grab real-time disruption maps of the london tube railway. His conclusion - its fully avialable only about 22% of the time. I dont endorse neither criticize his claims, but thats quite a shocking figure. Here's an interesting conversation on a blog post to that effect.

Also here's something i learnt new today:

Do u know that in tokyo, if the trains late you get a note to show to your boss.

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