In terms of mainstream news, not that much has been happening over the last few days that particularly interests me. The current fuss about the bbc personality and the underage person just seems like a lot of baseless nonsense contrived by the Sun: an attempt to discredit a widely respected national broadcaster by an Outist rag. Frankly I don’t care enough about it to get a blog entry out of it. However, there was one thing recently that caught my attention: TFL has just announced that it is working on making more tube stations accessible. “Ten stations have been named on Transport for London’s priority list to be converted to step-free access. They are: Alperton, Arnos Grove, Burnt Oak, Eastcote, Finchley Road, Northolt, North Acton, Rayners Lane, West Hampstead and White City. TfL said it hoped to have the first station converted by 2026 “

This strikes me as very encouraging news indeed. I have long wished that more of London’s tube network was wheelchair accessible, of course, but I never heard any news or saw any evidence that work was being done to improve it. At last  I can now see progress is being made, or at least is being planned, allowing me to stay hope that one day the entire system will be fit for the twenty-first century. It may be painfully slow, but if you ask me it’s better than no progress at all