London’s public transport service has launched a new campaign to combat users who find it appropriate to leave the headphones in the backpack and give the other passengers with their musical choices – often of doubtful taste.
It is a commonplace in Portugal: well -intentioned citizens who think of a good tone sharing their favorite music, usually in high volume, with their fellow citizens.
Happens in public transportationwhere passengers are often subject to musicinvariably with dubious taste, from other passengers – who forgot the headphones at home or who have them in their backpack.
It happens on the streets, where you occasionally pass another window driver or bonnetto boast the power of its subwoofers Disseminating in the atmosphere the musical chords of your band or favorite singer-usually chosen with the good taste to wait for those who find good idea to do so, first.
Not to mention also the occasional passersby or motorcyclists who, not satisfied with the quality of decibels that their mobile phones debit, extrapolates them with sound columns portable.
It does not only happen in Portugal, apparently. You British suffer from the same eviland the subject reached the sphere of political discussion. Both liberal democrats and conservatives already appealing to the labor government to take action to solve the problem.
Recently, the deputy Richard Holdencurrent minister of conservative party transport, in opposition, said passengers should not have to “put up with someone else’s raw music”.
The phenomenon led to Transport for London (TFL), the London public transport service, to launch an awareness campaign that encourages passengers to Use headphones when they hear musiccounts a.
On Tuesday, posters began to emerge at the stations of Metro to remember travelers that They should not listen to music or use their mobile phonesince this can bother the other passengers.
The TFL campaign, called, will be extended in the coming days to the entire transport network.
Travel rules on trains already consider infringement Listen to music aloud. But, like other issues, such as the escape to ticket payment, the application of the law depends on the British transport police or the railway operators themselves.
Earlier this year, the Liberal Democrats defended Fines of up to 1,000 pounds (about 1,160 euros) for the so -called headphone dodgers – People who dispense with their heard and hear music high on the buses and trains.
Seb Dancevice-mayor of London for transport, said in turn that the little minority that “listens to music or videos aloud can be a real annoyance for other passengers and disturb your trips. ”
“Regardless of the way the Londons take advantage of the route, be it the Track your favorite series or listen to musicWe want everyone to have a pleasant trip, ”added Dance.
Campaign posters will also encourage people to raise their eyes from the mobile phone and be Attentive to other passengers that may need a sitting place.
Previously, the campaign Travel Kind had already launched appeals to surveillance against the sexual harassment And encouraged travelers to advance into the London Metro Carriages to allow more people to enter.
The success of the new phase of the campaign is based on the assumption that the headphone dodgers will be sensitive to the inconvenience that causes and capable of behaving with civility.
Perhaps it was more effective if it tried to explain to them lack of notion That has to give music to others is not an act of kindness, but an aggression – not only for the high volume of sound, but mainly for the music they normally choose.
