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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Alan Martin

Ads could one day come to a Tube window near you

Display ads could be installed in public-transport windows

(Picture: LG )

Step into any Tube station, and you’re bombarded with adverts. Adverts that slowly move past you as the escalator descends. Adverts on the platform while you impatiently wait for your train. And, of course, adverts onboard the carriage above the seats for you to stare at as you trundle on to your final station where you’ll be greeted with… more adverts.

But it turns out TfL is missing a trick, and there’s one spot that’s currently advert-free that needn’t be: the windows.

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