Reports last week surfaced that disused tube stations were to be turned into 'pleasure palaces'. I'd like to know who out of these decision makers have ever travelled on the tube or been inside a tube station.
Unless they are going to knock down the entire building and start again, I simply cannot see anyone deriving any pleasure from these stinky, dark and cavernous spaces which had previously caused so much displeasure to users of the London Underground.
We already have a 'London Dungeon' which is the only sort of attraction I can see working in these buildings where mice roam freely as well as germs.
Even if these disused tube stations were completely gutted and renovated (which would take years and years to achieve properly), they will always bear remnants of the memories of being overcrowded in a stinky tunnel with many angry commuters bashing into each other, trying to get onto a tube to escape the unpleasantness.
Let's face it, noone goes to a tube station for the experience, it's part of an unpleasant journey to work for most of us, and we are desperate to get out of there.
I can't see, whatever the pleasure intended, there being an attraction about going to a tube station. And don't get me started on who came up with the idea of the word 'palaces'.
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