Another pointless exercise for the run-up to the mayoral election by Sadiq Khan who is rebranding London’s Overground lines.
Now Mayor Khan has spent £6.3 million making six distinct lines, each given a different name and colour.
The simplicity of Harry Beck’s map, which I remember from my youth, has been ruined. We now get a blue Mildmay line, apparently named in tribute to a North London hospital known for its work during the Aids crisis. There’s a Suffragette and Windrush Line, and my local is renamed the Liberty Line.
It is just a ludicrous waste of money and unnecessary added complexity on an already dense Tube map.
All this money is poured away on a vanity project as the London Transport network has received the accolade of having nearly nine times higher crimes per million passengers than New York. That’s 18.6 million reported incidents, and how many went unreported?
CabbieBlog 
A completely pointless exercise in virtue-signalling vanity, and a total waste of money, time, and resources. Unfortunately, none of those potentially opposing Khan in the next election are any better, from what I can see. The Tory candidate appears to be unhinged, to say the least.
Cheers, Pete.
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In my increasing grumpiness I find it all too much. I wish they could just keep the trains on time, reliable, clean, safe. Everything must be a good cause or an advert point. To avoid seeming confused as I try to navigate London, I prefer to step to the curb, raise my arm, then have a nice and knowledgeable cabbie whisk me where I wish to go. Now I might enjoy riding renamed lines if they chose more historically interesting names like The Plague Line, Leper Colony, Hung Drawn and Quartered, Winchester Geese, or Press Gang.
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Love the names!!!
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I agree, the names that were there worked, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
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Politicians just can’t leave anything alone, I suppose it justifies their existence.
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