The question on my mind today is, is London the only place in the country which has mobile phone and tablet charging sockets on busses, or have they cropped up elsewhere too? I began to notice them a few months ago: every seat on a London bus now has a socket which you can plug a mobile phone charger into. This includes one for the wheelchair space, not that I’ve ever used it*. Pondering it today, I realised that its probably a sign of how affluent London is becoming: it’s a city of middle class executives who all have devices that they need to charge on their way to and from wherever they are going. The question is, therefore, do we see such signs of contemporary technological affluence happening elsewhere, or do we only encounter such obviously not cheap yet ultimately unnecessary additions to public services here in the capital?

*Mind you, putting a powerchair charger there would sometimes be useful…