From Alan Hall's letter to The Mercury "....and put us on the famous London Underground map...."

I've never had an inferiority complex when explaining to people that I live in the part of London that is not on the underground map. I then get asked, "How do you get about if there's no tube, then?" and I patiently tell them about trains and buses.

I do recall a brochure from TFL a few years back explaining the benefit of extending the London Underground to Forest Hill/Sydenham. One justification was that house prices increase in value if they are on a tube line. If TFL had to appeal to our personal greed to get approval, I was not impressed.

Who knows, being on the "famous London Underground map" may do wonders round here. Forest Hill might transform into Richmond/Kew Bridge overnight (in your face, East Dulwich!). Then again we might turn into the squalid bedsit-land that is Tooting to cater for the influx of people new to London who think that you can only get about by tube.