William Hong wrote: >The most extensive use of aural policing so far, though, has been in >underground stations. Six stops on the Tyneside Metro currently pump >out Haydn and Mozart to deter vandals and loiterers, and the scheme has >been so successful that it has spawned imitators. After a pilot at Elm >Park station on the London Underground, classical music now fills 30 >other stations on the network. The most effective deterrents, according >to a spokesman for Transport for London, are anything sung by Pavarotti >or written by Mozart." I wonder if this is really true (in which case, I have somehow managed to keep to the 90 per cent of stations which don't play it) or is just wrong information being copied between journalists? Alastair