Yeah yet again the metropolitan line has major rush hour delays. You'd think from all the engineering work they are doing, causing the service to be suspended for whole weekends at a time, that they would have got things sorted.

And how is it that every time I experience a delay on the metropolitan line on the way into work the driver always tells us that its because a passenger is taken ill? How many passengers have you actually seen taken ill on tubes? I've never seen it happen in the last 30 years, yet I've been on tubes delayed by "passenger taken ill" about six times this year already, everytime during rush hour in the morning. Very strange. I wonder if such delays are exempt from being included as part of overall assessment of its performance.

Pat you make a very good point. I've also been on several trains in the last year which have been taken out of service due to a "technical problem". Last time I asked the driver what it was and he couldn't tell me.

This was at Acton Town, famous in driver lore for the quality of its tea and sandwiches ..

Still, I'm sure BlowJo our new mayor will sort the tube out. In fact, why hasn't he fixed it? He's in charge after all.