It was rejected, as it conveyed a message that could – according to the commissioner – confuse some users of the London Underground service, as the service for bicycles was not guaranteed on all the lines.

The commissioner was TFL – Transport for London, the company responsible for the transport in the London area – within the project Art on the Underground, which invites contemporary artists to design projects  for the environment of the London Underground , both transient and permanent. Jeremy Deller then realized the cover of the Tube Map together with artist Paul Ryan, a work presented July 1, 2007, which is still visible at the address http://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/detail/1119/. This consisted of a portrait of John Hough, who was then the current longest serving member of staff at TFL.
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The document is a drawing by Sarah Tynan, and serves as an example of what could have been the result of the work of the class.
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The second proposal, called The Spoils of War, proposed to expose the carcass of a car destroyed by a bomb in Iraq, bringing a trace of the war in what has been for centuries the heart of the British Empire and still is universally recognized as a place with a strong monumental character.
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