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Mayor Boris Johnson has told bungling Tube chiefs to get their act together after a week of hell on London Underground. He was reported to be furious during face-to-face meetings with Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy and LU managing director Mike Brown. Thousands of passengers had to be led through miles of darkened tunnels and millions delayed after trains broke down, signals failed and power failures this week. Today the delays continued on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Metropolitan Line and the Waterloo & City line was close due to flooding. Steve Grant, London organiser for drivers' union Aslef, said they had lost "faith". Howard Collins, LU's chief operating officer, has denied the network had failed "systemically" blaming "unrelated problems". However, the Mayor told TfL supremos to “pull their socks up” and start providing a decent service. Clearly shaken by the catastrophic failure of the tube network and the Mayor's visible anger, a report is being rushed off to City Hall concentrating on how breakdowns can be prevented.. His transport adviser Kulveer Ranger said: "Londoners have every right to feel hugely aggravated by the disruption we saw on the Tube this week." RMT leader Bob Crow blamed privatisation for mayhem on the Jubilee line "which doesn't operate". Drivers on the line are refusing to use a new £600 million signaling system on safety grounds. He added "It has cost taxpayers billions and caused routine misery for passengers. This is a shocking indictment of mismanagement at the very top of TfL."
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