{"id":373248,"date":"2025-08-25T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373248\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:00:23","slug":"london-mayor-rolls-out-campaign-to-tackle-nuisance-headphone-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373248\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor rolls out campaign to tackle \u2018nuisance\u2019 headphone dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is launching a campaign to encourage public transport users to wear headphones and avoid playing music or holding speakerphone conversations, aiming to prevent disruption.<\/p>\n

Posters will begin appearing on the Elizabeth line from Tuesday, reminding travellers of the new etiquette. The initiative, part of Transport for London\u2019s (TfL) wider ‘Travel Kind’ campaign, will then extend across London\u2019s buses, the Docklands Light Railway, and the Overground and Underground networks.<\/p>\n

The playing of loud content on phones has become a hot-button political issue recently, with both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives urging ministers to take action.<\/p>\n

Seb Dance, deputy mayor of London for transport, said: \u201cThe vast majority of Londoners use headphones when travelling on public transport in the capital, but the small majority who play music or videos out loud can be a real to other passengers and directly disturb their journeys.<\/p>\n

\u201cTfL\u2019s new campaign will remind and encourage Londoners to always be considerate of other passengers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever Londoners spend their journey, whether catching up on their favourite series or listening to music, we want everyone to have a pleasant journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New campaign posters will also encourage people to look up from their phones, and to be aware that others travelling on public transport may be in need of a seat.<\/p>\n

The Travel Kind campaign has previously included posters calling for vigilance about sexual harassment and urging travellers to move down inside London\u2019s Tube carriages to ensure others can get on.<\/p>\n

The campaign launch comes just days after the Tories called for passengers to be banned from playing loud music on buses.<\/p>\n

The Conservatives are also seeking to ensure railway operators enforce rules preventing passengers from playing disruptive loud music with on-the-spot fines.<\/p>\n

Shadow transport secretary Richard Holden said passengers should not have to \u201cendure somebody else\u2019s choice of crap music\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Liberal Democrats have already pushed for similar action, calling for fines of up to \u00a31,000 for \u201cheadphone dodgers\u201d who play music out loud on buses and trains.<\/p>\n

Lib Dems transport spokesperson \u2013 and Wimbledon MP \u2013 Paul Kohler said: \u201cI\u2019m pleased Transport for London are listening to the Liberal Democrats. We\u2019ve been campaigning on this issue for a number of months and I\u2019m glad TfL and others are finally paying attention to our campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying music and videos out loud on public transport has a real impact on other passengers\u2019 lives. It\u2019s often thoughtless, and sometimes deliberately intimidating, but always wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s now time for the Government to face the music by silencing it, with tougher action including fixed penalty notices across all public transport and a publicity campaign to put an end to headphone dodging.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-373248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115091421668251703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}