Transport for London’s 300 Translators Can’t Explain Delays
The Tube Driver’s Perspective: Babylon Had One Language, London Underground Has 300 Ways to Say Absolutely Nothing OXFORD CIRCUS, LONDON: Transport for London has reportedly commissioned a comprehensive review of its announcements after discovering that the greatest obstacle to communication on the Underground is not London’s linguistic diversity but the extraordinary difficulty of obtaining a straight answer. The initiative followed complaints that passengers regularly hear announcements describing service disruptions without…