The green lanes are to ease crowding on the platforms (Picture: Twitter/ @yodaniel)

Seasoned London Underground commuters are livid with a game-changing platform hack that’s giving away the secrets of a speedy journey.

Once you’ve been getting the Tube for a while, you quickly realise you can shave time off your journey in a number of ways.

By travelling on a carriage close to the exit you will need, standing on the giveaway trodden-on parts of the platform that indicate where the Tube doors will open.

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But now commuters with years, even decades, of experience are having their advantages whipped away by a travel hack on the King’s Cross Victoria Line platform.




A green lane has been applied to the entire platform, in a bid to provide a little decongestion during busy periods.

Transport for London are discouraging passengers from waiting inside the green zone – which marks where commuters on the arriving train are about to alight.

The green lanes mean that now everyone, even tourists and Tube novices are also aware where to wait to be closest to the carriage doors – and Londoners are pretty irked by it.

20yrs of personal tube platform expertise and competitive commuting advantage rendered useless by some green paint. pic.twitter.com/d56ok8Kssg — Daniel Ayers (@yodaniel) September 12, 2017

Daniel Ayers joked that two decades of ‘tube platform expertise’ has been rendered useless by the green paint.

This Twitter user named Emily was also ticked off at TfL sharing the joy with all passengers.

being consistently able to predict where the tube doors would be was the one ego boost i had in life. what do i do now?? https://t.co/Udd5WFA0zB — emily (@head_moths) September 13, 2017

The green lane is part of a trial to reduce crowding on platforms at peak travel times.

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‘It’s a visual cue to get people to walk all the way along the platform.

‘In peak times, passengers congregate at the entrance to the platform. On the Jubilee line for example, you don’t have that because people wait in front of the barriers.’

Findings will be published by Transport for London following the trial.