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Ruthie B. Birger ’06, who lives two tube stops from King’s Cross, wrote in an e-mail that “when I got to the [Finsbury Park] station there was an announcement that it was [closed] and that we should take the buses....At the time I thought it was only my tube station that was closed but as the bus drove through north and central London I saw hundreds of people waiting at the stops so I realized something else was going...
...there was a third explosion involving two or three trains around Edgware Road station. Seven people were killed in that attack, police said...
...almost normal. Aside from three stocky policemen posted outside the tube station, their tall helmets and fluorescent yellow jackets visible from the end of the street, it was business as usual at Mile End, just two stops away from a blast yesterday where seven of the day?s 50-plus fatalities took place...
...means deserted at 9:20 a.m., though the usual crush was reduced to a gentle throng. Inside, seated passengers flicked through newspapers, digesting photos of victims and rescuers, the mangled red No. 30 bus and graphics mapping the bomb sites. As we approached Liverpool Street, an announcement that the station had been closed due to a security alert was greeted with a few raised eyebrows and grudging nods. It was calm, quiet and pensive; we all knew what everyone else was thinking...
...Every morning, around 9:10 a.m., the 59 bus creeps out of Streatham Hill Bus Garage to start its journey through London to Euston Station. By the time it reaches Brixton about 10 minutes later, it?s standing room only, filled with people jostling for space on their morning commute. And it?s noisy. People chat loudly to each other or on their mobile phones, while mothers try to comfort wailing babies and kids turn their MP3 players up so high that the music seeps out from their headphones in a buzzing, tinny beat. It stays that way until...