Delays on Tube system are worse than 10 years ago

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The number of delays lasting 15 minutes or more is higher than in 1996/7 - a total of 2,740 during the last 12 months compared with 2,656 a decade ago.

Latest official statistics also show the District, Metropolitan, Northern and Victoria lines are all worse than in 1996/97.

The District and Northern, two of the busiest lines on the system, are together used by more than 1.3 million passengers a day.

When delays of five minutes or more were taken into account, figures show;

Delays on the Northern line are worse now compared with four years ago;

On the Metropolitan line delays are worse now than they were three years ago;

In the last two years service on Piccadilly and Victoria lines has worsened.

Passengers' Excess Journey Time - time taken for the journey compared with what is expected - is currently four minutes 50 seconds. In 2003, it was two minutes 55 seconds.

The figures were obtained by former Tory transport secretary Theresa May through Parliamentary Questions and a Freedom of Information request to London Underground.

Brian Cooke, chairman of London TravelWatch, said the figures make for "grim reading".

Talks continued today in an effort to avert a three-day strike, due to begin next Sunday at 6pm, among Metronet maintenance staff in a dispute over working conditions.
Bob Crow, the RMT union leader, said: "We hope that we will now be able to move forward to an agreement, but in the meantime the three-day strike ... remains in place."