I HAVE just read the article in your November 9 edition, outlining the proposed reductions in Met Line rush hour services to Uxbridge (Met Line services cut at peak times, Gazette).

I commute every working day between Eastcote and Baker Street on the Met, and find it extraordinary that the general line manager, Angela Back, can claim that the way to accommodate growing demand will be achieved by running fewer trains. What planet is she from?

When I travel home from Baker Street in the rush hour, if the Uxbridge service has originated at Aldgate, it is as crowded in the new S stock trains as the old trains.

She mentions more space thats questionable, and the advantage would in any case be negated when more commuters are forced to use fewer trains.

This alleged more space is at the expense of 29 per cent fewer seats of course, but I have sometimes found it difficult in a crowded S stock train to reach a rail to hang on to when enjoying all this lovely more space.

Perhaps the driver could play the Hawaii Five-O music so that we can pretend we are surfing (especially popular when forced to stand on the join between the cars) because it will obviously make passengers journeys much more comfortable.