(10 Oct 2022, 8:29 pm)Andreos1 wrote If course 1986 is relevant. 
It's why those metro stations you mention above stopped working as effectively and ultimately why we see a conga of multi-coloured vehicles following each other in to and ont of the town.

If they've stopped "working". Why are people using them every day to travel to Central Station?

I was one of them for 10 years and can I tell you exactly why it works!