Thank you for the link. I am happly that the BJP is fighting for photographer’s rights. In the case of the Aldwych, they obvious policy would have been to ban tripods. It reads as though someone could have put a small digital on a tripod and been allowed to use it.

I will put it on the list of Jobs to Consider!

If the British Musuem extended their exhibition space to include the Underground network then perhaps the supervisors could also offer guided tours or information sessions on their particular section and exhibits?

Or perhaps the British equivalents of the Moscow underground following your suggestions might make use of holograms? [ http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/cnns-hologram-hoax/2008/11/07/1225561097423.html ] Or perhaps virtual people might make the security environment a nightmare to police? You wouldn’t want someone coming up with the idea of virtual (hologram) staff in the tradition of scarecrows (to ensure computers do the right thing re ticketing) now would you?

No need to put original objects on display. It would be easy to (1) do 3D laser scans of the objects (2) send the scans to a 3D printing machine (3) ask me to patinate the output from the 3D printer. Busy travellers would not be able to tell the difference!
BUT: I am very attracted to the idea of finding something useful for the station managers to do. There is a risk that the squeeze on public expenditure, combined with video security, will result in many of them losing their jobs. But maybe not: the Oyster Card system is supposed to be mechanised but seems to need supervision from crowds of uniformed men and women.

The illustration is from the House of Livia at Prima Porta. So far, no illustrations of Roman gardens in the British Isles have been found.
London Transport should make an absolute distinction between commercial and non-commercial photography, and charge only for the latter. But if they wishe to persist with the morally indefensible policy they should begin by taking action agains the 185,000 photographs on Flickr. To me, it looks as though half of them break the rule – unless of course the photographers all bought permits, in which case fares should be reduced.