Advantages:Its faster. (It saves you more time.);It saves you energy.

(I need four more advantages) :)

Disadvantages: Theres no air. (Too hot); Its crowded; There are usually delays; You have to move from platform to
platform and you can get lost;You have to pay for every district you are in. I need one more disadvantage :)
- It's more environmentally friendly than everyone using their cars
-It gives people lots of job opportunities (drivers, controllers, engineers etc)

-It's quite efficient at transporting millions of passengers per year, imagine the carnage on the roads and
streets if there was NO tube! No one would get anywhere, there would even be traffic on the paths!
-It's advantageous to companies who can advertise on the posters on the tube trains and in the stations,
which also generates money for TFL, which then 'partly' goes back in to upgrading the underground system
which benefits the passengers as they will have a more frequent and reliable service.
Disadvantage:
-Peak time, when the underground is at it's busiest, is the BEST opportunity for pick pockets!
The London Underground (also known as the Tube or simply the Underground) is a public rapid
transit system serving a large part of Greater London and parts of the home
counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. The system serves 270 stations and has 402
kilometres (250 mi) of track, 52% of which is above ground[citation needed]. The network is considered the
oldest rapid transit system, incorporating the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway,
which opened in 1863 and is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines; and the
first line to operate underground electric traction trains, theCity & South London Railway in 1890, now
part of the Northern line.[4] The network has expanded to 11 lines, and in 2012/13 carried 1.23 billion
passengers, making it the 12th busiest transit system.[citation needed]
The system's first tunnels were built just below the surface using the cut and cover method, and are large
enough to take trains of normal size. Later, smaller circular tunnels which give rise to its nickname the
Tube were dug through the London Clay at a deeper level. The early lines were marketed as
the UNDERGROUND in the early 20th century on maps and signs at central London stations. The private
companies that owned and ran the railways were merged in 1933 to form the London Passenger Transport
Board. The current operator, London Underground Limited (LUL), is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Transport for London (TfL), the statutory corporation responsible for most elements of the transport
network in Greater London. The term 'Tube' is nowadays often used both in official publicity and in general
usage to embrace the whole Underground system, though it is sometimes only applied to the lines that run
in deep-level tunnels, excluding the Circle, Metropolitan, District and Hammersmith and City lines.[5]
As of 2012, 91% of operational expenditure is covered by passenger fares.[6] The Travelcard ticket was
introduced in 1983 and Oyster, a contactless ticketing system, in 2003.
The LPTB was a prominent patron of art and design, commissioning many new station buildings, posters
and public artworks in amodernist style. The schematic Tube map, designed by Harry Beck in 1931, was
voted a national design icon in 2006 and now includes other lines - the Docklands Light
Railway and London Overground - as well as the non-rail Emirates Air Line. London Underground
branding is built around the symbols of the roundel and the Johnston typeface, created by Edward

Johnston in 1916. London Underground celebrated 150 years of operations in 2013, with various events
marking the milestone.[7]