Noise is forcing some Tube drivers to reduce speed

• IT appears Transport for London have got a lot of explain­ing to do, (Strike threat as tube drivers are exposed to track screech, June 20).

First they replaced wooden sleepers with concrete ones. They appear to have rolled this out across the tube net­work without any consid­eration of the increased noise impact that it would create.

The result is that many Londoners, both in Camden and beyond, have found it hard to sleep in their own homes. TfL, of course, does not offer compensation, even to those who have had to leave their homes.

Now it is reported that the mitigation measures they have put in have caused the noise inside the trains to increase so that paying passengers have to block their ears and tube drivers are considering striking.

Has anybody at TfL been held accountable for this? And when are they going to admit to the scale of the problem they have created and sort it out for the sake of residents, drivers and passengers?

H PLOWDEN
NW1