I snapped this several weeks ago and always meant to look up the website the poster it mentions. The site also has info on the other art projects seen in the tunnels and billboards on the underground system.Jeremy Deller's first idea was to have a day of no announcements on the tube, but obviously that wasn't possible, so he came up with a book of quotes for drivers of trains on the Piccadilly Line to use in their announcements. This was in February 2009, and though I make at least six trips a week on that line, I've not heard a single one....
But then, sometimes you go for weeks without seeing a Poems on the Underground poster.
As for quotes ... how about:"Beer is proof that God wanted us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin; and "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them" - Henry Ford.
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