Why are there blue plastic roses in the subway?

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Bristol Temple Meads - planters with plastic flowers and a wall of faux greenery.  Why?

[Mark A]

Perhaps they conceal aerosol dispensers that counter the pastie reek from the pastie place there. (Seriously, it needs an extractor at least to track level and preferably through the station roof.)

Mark

[TaplowGreen]

Perhaps they conceal aerosol dispensers that counter the pastie reek from the pastie place there. (Seriously, it needs an extractor at least to track level and preferably through the station roof.)

Mark

Please, get it right - "Pasty" - next thing you know you'll be suggesting that it's jam on first! 

[bobm]

Possibly waiting for some yellow daffodils to remember Ukraine.

[Mark A]

Apologies, no coffee yet. Now you're talking though, pastys with a bit of jam in one end - why they're extinct I've no idea.

Mark

[TaplowGreen]

Apologies, no coffee yet. Now you're talking though, pastys with a bit of jam in one end - why they're extinct I've no idea.

Mark

"Pasties" - a tasty and nutritious use for turnips (irrespective of the availability of tomatoes)

[eightonedee]

I think this is a new style of "fence" dividing accesses into lanes  - there's something similar (unless I have been hallucinating!) at the escalators at the town end of the overbridge at Reading, but not in blue (I think, it's amazing how your powers of observation and memory fade as you go through your 60s!)

[johnneyw]

The barrier was put in to help the up and down stairs foot traffic keep separate (up to the exit gates to the left and down from the entry gates from the right) but why plastic flowers and shrubbery?  Probably seemed like a good idea to someone at the time.

[ChrisB]

Unbelievably, people moved the previous 'barrier' when they discovered it was there for a reason & trhey couldn't get between down & up escalators.

So something a tad more unmoveable was installed to persuade travellers that it was there for a very good reason!