Due to sustained immigration from abroad and migration from within Britain, by 2026 London's population is forecast to grow by perhaps 1.2 million. But how will the capital's transport network cope? Do you travel into London every day on the city's buses, trains and tubes? What do you think could be done to improve the system?
Perhaps your journey is enjoyable - if so, tell us why.
We would like to hear your views on this subject and any comments you have about the second programme of the Are We There Yet? series, broadcast on Tuesday, 13 March, 2007 at 1930 GMT on BBC Two.
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Excellent programme - hard-hitting stuff and the right targets (above all Brown, and the outrageous failure of New Labour to tackle public transport). But why didn't John Ware open up the question of the length of trains? When I was a child, trains were 8, 10, 12, 16 carriages long; now they're 3, 4, 5 carriages on much of the network, and rarely more than 8. One solution to congestion would be to have longer trains, which many of the busiest stations could take, but the reason that's not being proposed is another delightful feature of the privatised railway - the stranglehold of the RoSCos: rolling-stock companies who control the supply and prices of engines and carriages. Tighter regulation of these monsters (or punitive taxation, followed by renationalisation) would be a first step towards a better railway. Will the privatisation ideologues in our New Labour government do anything about that? Oh no, no, no - much better to take out the seats and make people stand...! Makes your blood boil!
John Watts, UK
I think that maybe you should explain on your program exactly what Metronet are actually being asked to complete. I am a first year track technician for Metronet and I fully understand that unless you don't want the renewal of the tube to be complete you should expect some delays. The trains cannot run unless they are safe, if Metronet are rushing to get trains and track complete and fit for service then they may cause more problems because the jobs may not be complete to the best standards possible. This will then cause more problems then packed trains and a few delays. I think you have totally mis-explained the situation. And it was unfair to pass the blame fully to Metronet.
Fiona Mccann, England
Re-open the most modern main line in Britain and the biggest transport disaster ever, re-open the great central main line all the way through the midlands to Manchester this was built to the Berne Guage and designed for continental trains and a channel tunnel in 1897! We need the extra capacity and this link needs to be reinstated now! Never mind any developments that have been built the vast majority of track bed is still there. Bite the bullet - we have to - otherwise we grind to a halt. Why am I a convert? Stuck on the M1 going to Aylesbury in a traffic jam there are near Lutterworth directly next to the motorway the remains of the last main line to be built clearly visible and it's disgusting to think I could have got on this line in 1965 and beat the traffic. The ministers in the Government of the day if they were still alive should be shot!
Wayne Armstrong, UK
The only way so stop commuting misery is to move jobs out of city centres to the places where people live.
William Loughnan, Northern Ireland
Having just watched your programme for the first time, I think you're asking the wrong question. The question isn't "how can we make London's transport better?". As you acknowledge, this is an impossible problem. The real question is, given the projections if we do nothing that London's congestion will simply get worse, "how do we incentivise people/businesses to look elsewhere?" It's a typically London-centric viewpoint being expressed in your programme. There is plenty of room elsewhere if the vision exists!
Padraig O'Kelly, UK