London underground will be open during 12:0 am during the weekend

Like feet as New York or Barcelona, also the London underground, the oldest in the world, will be open 12:0 am a day on weekends.

The measure, which will take effect from 2015, it will affect the top five rows, concentrating 60% of the traffic of the London underground Jubilee line, Victoria, Central, Northern and Piccadilly. The night service will not be as frequent as the daytime but will ensure a minimum of four trains per hour.

In addition to increasing rivalry between London and New York, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, believes that the expansion of the hours of operation will be able to boost the economy of the English capital and boost job creation. "It will be highly valuable to the economy of London, which is becoming an economy of 12:0 am, seven days a week, interacting with the various time zones around the world," said Boris Johnson, quoted by the Financial Times (FT). If this big global financial centre that is the City never turn out the lights, the subway will not also underlined Johnson.

However, this new planning will result in a renewal of the seasons, which carries the closure of ticket offices of 240 stations. The closure of ticket offices will in turn lead to a reduction of 950 workers. However, the opening of the stations on weekends provides for the creation of 200 new jobs, employment in total balance translates into extinction of 750 jobs.

Currently, most of the tickets and passes are purchased through the internet or the vending machines placed in stations, so the metro Administration sees no need to keep the box office assisted selling open. To occupy the Administration ticket office is in talks with Amazon to make the spaces in points of collection of items that are purchased online.

With the passage of time, will be added to most metro lines service, as they remodeled. The ultimate goal is that the London underground is open 12:0 am a day, seven days a week, reports the FT.

Foto:  Jim Bahn / Creative Commons

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