After reading "Dunstan's humorous post":http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2004/02/12/irony/ on British rail, and the silly responses he received from Americans and Germans, I was reminded of an excellent article by William Finnegan in the "New Yorker":http://newyorker.com last week, _Underground Man: Can the former C.I.A. agent who saved New York's subway get the Tube back on track?_ After scouring the _New Yorker_ web site and Google without luck, I decided it was worth scanning and posting the "article":http://ned.suckahs.org/underground_man/. Sorry they're jpgs... I probably won't leave it up very long (file size/bandwidth), unless someone can suggest a way to extract the text of the article. I'm your public library. UPDATE 9/12/2005: I changed my directory security a while back, so these articles have not been linked. Here ya go: * Page 1 * Page 2 * Page 3 * Page 4 * Page 5 * Page 6