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| Mungo smiles on the Tube in his boxer shorts |
We have had the Naked Rambler, the Naked Civil Servant and now we have the naked commuter.
Mungo Strachan is baring almost all in a protest against hot tube trains in London.
The 23-year-old said with rising temperatures this week, his journey from Baron’s Court to Monument is unbearable in his suit.
So, instead of wearing it, he has been carrying it and travels to work in his underpants.
He said: “The protest started this week when the heat on the tube really picked up. I’m a Scotsman so these temperatures for me are tropical.”
The headhunter, who lives in Baron’s Court said he is also getting friends to join his campaign.
“I will carry on doing this until I get the numbers up, even when it is raining,” he said. “I have a few friends keen to bare all who travel on the northern line so that should be interesting.”
Mr Strachan, who used to play semi-professional rugby with London Scottish, said he will happily take off his boxers if it means Mayor Boris Johnson will take notice of his protest.
“I could easily do it with a bit of encouragement but I think baring all might have repercussions, especially with my boss,” he said. “Boris knows how miserable it is on the tube, when temperatures are as high as the are we need air conditioning and this is a message to him to get it installed on all tubes now.”
Transport for London has already introduced air conditioning on the Metropolitan line trains and on some of its trains on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City and Circle lines.
By 2016, an air conditioned service of 191 trains will be in operation covering 40 per cent of the Tube network.
It added deep-lying Tubes presented an “engineering challenge” but additional cooling methods were being introduced across the network.
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