Where do all the Metro's go?

[Beckiboo]

For all those people who work in London and get the free Metro paper on the tube.

You know if you go into work late, say 10/11am, finding a Metro to read on your way in is like trying to find a needle in a haystack! It's like aliens have come down from Space and nabbed all the papers!
But if you're going in normal time at 8.30-9.00am, there trillions of papers on every seat, stuffed down the sides of escalators etc etc.

Where do they all go? Do you reckon LUL staff come along and collect them up? Or are they taken one by one by the many comuters riding the trains?

Just something that has been puzzling me for some time now...

 

[Barbie]

A lot of people take theirs with them but if you leave them on the tube and the tube gets to the end of the line then the LU staff throw them all away with all the other rubbish.

Happier now Bec

 

[grego]

For all those people who work in London and get the free Metro paper on the tube.

You know if you go into work late, say 10/11am, finding a Metro to read on your way in is like trying to find a needle in a haystack! It's like aliens have come down from Space and nabbed all the papers!
But if you're going in normal time at 8.30-9.00am, there trillions of papers on every seat, stuffed down the sides of escalators etc etc.

Where do they all go? Do you reckon LUL staff come along and collect them up? Or are they taken one by one by the many comuters riding the trains?

Just something that has been puzzling me for some time now...

metro is a national paper. i reckon bus drivers and cleaners up and down the country must hate metro for the random disposal of metro by the thousand. i regularly pick up a dirrrrrrrrrrrrty, half eaten, torn, 4 page section to read on the way home.

 

[Beckiboo]

A lot of people take theirs with them but if you leave them on the tube and the tube gets to the end of the line then the LU staff throw them all away with all the other rubbish.

Happier now Bec

Much happier thankyou! I've been trying to work it out for ages, I knew it was something like cleaners came on and chucked them all.

Another weight off my mind

 

[Barbie]

Much happier thankyou! I've been trying to work it out for ages, I knew it was something like cleaners came on and chucked them all.

Another weight off my mind

What's next in Bec's world of little mysteries

 

[Beckiboo]

What's next in Bec's world of little mysteries

Well I just cant get my head around the whole concept of flying either. How does a plane create that much power to stay in the air? If the engines failed, would it just drop out of the sky? Or would it glide down?

 

[Buckley]

A lot of people take theirs with them but if you leave them on the tube and the tube gets to the end of the line then the LU staff throw them all away with all the other rubbish.

Happier now Bec

Piffle Miss Boo! They're made of that new timelapse self-vapourising paper. They get printed at 4am and have a 6,5 hour lifespan, like spies self-destructing messages only without the explosives. Have you noticed that when you get on the tube after 11am there the air seems slightly damp? That's the paper vapour before it drifts to the floor and dries up.

Next!

 

[Barbie]

Well I just cant get my head around the whole concept of flying either. How does a plane create that much power to stay in the air? If the engines failed, would it just drop out of the sky? Or would it glide down?

I don't underestand that either, I try not to think about it cos it hurts my head

 

[grego]

Piffle Miss Boo! They're made of that new timelapse self-vapourising paper. They get printed at 4am and have a 6,5 hour lifespan, like spies self-destructing messages only without the explosives. Have you noticed that when you get on the tube after 11am there the air seems slightly damp? That's the paper vapour before it drifts to the floor and dries up.

Next!

ahhhh! so you are a clandestine employee of some organisation. you wanna be careful giving away information like that.

 

[Beckiboo]

Piffle Miss Boo! They're made of that new timelapse self-vapourising paper. They get printed at 4am and have a 6,5 hour lifespan, like spies self-destructing messages only without the explosives. Have you noticed that when you get on the tube after 11am there the air seems slightly damp? That's the paper vapour before it drifts to the floor and dries up.

Next!

I knew it was something more sinister!

 

[Buckley]

I knew it was something more sinister!

You wait until I reveal how they got you conned with the aeroplanes ruse!

Industrial strength wire and huge transparent trolley jacks...that's all I can say for now. *They* could be listening!

 

[Beckiboo]

You wait until I reveal how they got you conned with the aeroplanes ruse!

Industrial strength wire and huge transparent trolley jacks...that's all I can say for now. *They* could be listening!

I'm more worried about what trolley jacks are! I'm having visions of Asda trolleys flying through the air!

 

[Jam Man]

I'm more worried about what trolley jacks are! I'm having visions of Asda trolleys flying through the air!

 

[Kang]

ha ha how funny you've brought this subject up Babs.

This morning the central line was down so Ben and I walked to another station to get the Hammersmith & City line in to work. The platforms was packed so we went two stops back to the beginning of the line and got on an empty tube. It was littered with Metros. Then this really old guy shuffles on and starts collecting them up all and gets off He then gets on the next carriage and does the same I commented to Ben about it. He said perhaps he's taking them all to the local old people's home

So, there you go - it's an old geezer in Hammersmith, he has the lot

 

[naddyz]

ha ha how funny you've brought this subject up Babs.

This morning the central line was down so Ben and I walked to another station to get the Hammersmith & City line in to work. The platforms was packed so we went two stops back to the beginning of the line and got on an empty tube. It was littered with Metros. Then this really old guy shuffles on and starts collecting them up all and gets off He then gets on the next carriage and does the same I commented to Ben about it. He said perhaps he's taking them all to the local old people's home

So, there you go - it's an old geezer in Hammersmith, he has the lot

I love old people, aren't they great!

 

[Kang]

I love old people, aren't they great!

I am pretty cool

 

[russ]

the boring truth is that the same guys who deliver the papers to the bins at 0530 collect all untaken copies at 1000. associated newspapers's contract with LU specifies this.

next.