In message , Matthew P Jones
writes
Welcome to the Metropolitan Line!

It has been like this for ages, although in truth the last few months
have been better than usual

I made a record of my travels, if you are interested see

www.metroland.org.uk

Now that funding the LUL is being sorted out perhaps some planning for
the Met can take place. New trains will arrive (OK in a few years) and
perhaps they can further tweak the signals and service patter to make
things more reliable - why do so many trains go to Watford and Uxbridge
with a lot at times almost empty?

Matthew



I have used the Met line for many, many years, through different
governments, Ken Livingstone, Bob Kiley etc. Yet they all seem unable
to get the correct information to the staff on the station when it's
really needed.

The station staff in my example (and indeed most of the one's I have had
contact with recently) were as helpful as they could be but obviously
knew nothing about this situation. Yet the decision that lead to this
must have been made by "someone somewhere" at least 20 mins prior to our
arrival. Yet it was not forwarded to the front line.
Is this a British class type thing? e.g. middle management trying to
avoid contact with what they see as oik's, or is it something so
ingrained into LUL way of working that it will never be able to be
eradicated?


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Dave B