All of this is horrible. I cant imagine how people involved must feel after going through that.
All of this year I lived in a residence 2 minutes away from Kings Cross Station. I have a friend still living there who told me it was full of confused and shocked people and the whole thing felt surreal today.
Two of the bombs went off in the area in which I live, seeing it on the news (I'm in Paris right now), those familiar landscapes in chaos, felt really unsettling. Terrorism doing exactly what it should to my mind, I guess.
I dont know what other Londoners think of this but the Underground always struck me as really really shit prepared in the case of an evacuation. It seems as though the rescue operations were really on the ball, but the way the stations are designed must be hell if you're stuck down there. The stations are dug down much deeper than, say, the metro in Paris. For instance, at Russel Square, 99% of people take the big ass elevators from ground level down onto the platform and vice versa. The other option is to go down this really narrow spiral staircase of about 300-400 steps, which I like to take because it feels like going down to the coal mines or something. I cant imagine what it must have been like evacuating people (injured or not), in addition to the shock and panic. The whole thing must be hell, apparently they are still pulling people out of the tunnel at the mo.