Nice buzzfeed run down of all the tube lines in London, ranking them in order of usefulness. It's quite kind to most of them but being most familiar with the District recently this about sums things up for me: 8. District Line: ..A slowly trundling caravan of disappointment and crushed ambition.. The Victoria line was much higher until someone flooded a switching room with fast setting concrete the other day. via timeout

Continuing my perverse interest in subway ideas for Dublin (well, metros and undergrounds are pretty cool anyway), this presentation was released recently showing the most recent CGI rendering of a Dublin metro. Nicer link to the agency's full presentation video on their website here The bare minimum concrete walls of all the stations aren't exactly inspiring but at least they seem to have decided to finally build the thing, amazing despite the recession. I would have thought a valuable and permanent piece of infrastructure desperately needed by the city would be the first thing to get axed by the not so far seeing politicians.