Why I hope they do not shut the Central Line again
There was a train derailment outside work today. It even made the national news. I barely noticed. I thought I'd be interested in having a national news story happen outside my window, but I only cared about my commute :).

Of course, that time the office all but emptied so people could cross the road to demonstrate for the boss the day he resigned I *was* interested in seeing the news happen outside my window.

Anyway, I digress. My main concern is that London Underground will not shut down the Central Line the way it did where there was a derailment near Chancery Lane. For if it does, on my back on the envelope calculations, they will kill a few dozen people indirectly, by moving them from the tube (not perfectly safe), to cars (which kill a few thousand people a year).

The problem is that people dwell on the high-profile deaths which happen when a public transport system has an accident, but take the steady stream of road deaths for granted.