Do you think the people who run our public transport services in north London knew what joined-up thinking or joined-up planning is?

I ask this question as a result of my travelling experience during the past week or so.

Travelling to Palmers Green on Sunday, July 10, knowing I could not use the Piccadilly Line, I was informed at Finsbury Park that WAGN's summer schedule was in operation, and there would be no trains to Palmers Green.

A bus tour of the highways and byeways of north London stations was offered as an alternative.

Perhaps nobody had told the master planners at WAGN about the tragic incidents of July 7 - or more likely they knew and perhaps did not care.

I have no doubt whatsoever they carrying out 'planned maintenance', the kind of 'planned maintenance' which used to be carried out overnight in pre-privatisation days.

Nowadays, of course, the accountant is king, shareholders need their dividends and directors need their bonuses.

Sunday services are getting rarer all the time and doubtless some time in the near future we will be told they are going to be shut down altogether. These people who are paid salaries out of our pockets could not organise the proverbial liquid refreshments in brewery premises.

VJ Doherty
Burford Gardens
Palmers Green