Tube Booze Ban - is it working?

Not even two months in and from my eyes it seems that people ARE actually
sticking to it. Or am I wrong? Probably only seen 1 empty can on the tube
since it started.
This is in complete contrast to the Smoking ban which is openly flouted and
has been in around 20 odd years.

In message <488c761e.16618750@news.>, at 13:21:21 on Sun,
27 Jul 2008, Dave <david@m> remarked:
>I don't remember seeing any cans even before the ban, but then I don't
>travel late at night.

I have to agree. Plenty of really drunk people (especially on the Circle
Line and inside) but very rarely anyone actually drinking.
--
Roland Perry

On Jul 27, 2:57 pm, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <488c761e.16618...@news.>, at 13:21:21 on Sun,
> 27 Jul 2008, Dave <da...@m> remarked:
>
> >I don't remember seeing any cans even before the ban, but then I don't
> >travel late at night.
>
> I have to agree. Plenty of really drunk people (especially on the Circle
> Line and inside) but very rarely anyone actually drinking.

Since I wrote my letter to the Standard complaining that elephants
ought to be banned from escalators, I haven't once been stuck behind
an elephant on an escalator.

(My letter didn't get printed, but it was obviously passed on to
TPTB. It just goes to show how one person can make a difference.)

I don't understand your comment about the smoking ban - I've seen it
flouted less than 10 times since it was introduced and on several
occasions I asked, having identified myself as staff, the offender to
put the cigarette out and they complied immediately.

Travelling on the Met reguarly I find its openly abused by sly gers
(trying to hide their habits from all the other passengers) both on trains
and platforms. OK so it may be in the out in the open air but the ban still
applies does it not? In central London it certainly is more effective.

Still see quite a few on the Northern Line southbound from Colindale most
evenings from about 5:15pm onwards