The internet is not a system of tubes, but London’s rail network is. Malcolm Barclay’s TubeStatus iPhone app will tell you which ones are blocked. He’s worried, however, that Transport for London might be out to get him:
Oh dear, the cat has been well and truly released from the bag now. I asked Apple weeks ago not to publish TubeStatus whilst I worked out what to do with it copyright wise (and hence subsequently open sourced it). It seems that didn’t make it to the right department and I learned this morning from a user that it was indeed available in the application store and had been downloaded 2,331 times in its first 2 days and has made the top 15 free applications!
It’s a fair bet, given that it already offers much the same thing–just not as an iPhone app.
TubeStatus [AppStore via TUAW]
