Article totally wrong This article is totally wrong Whatever it is about it is not about the London Commuter Belt the whole point of which is that it is NOT metropolitan The commuter belt starts where the fields start at the edge of the London conurbation i e slightly inside the M25 It finishes at about an hour s journey by train from the London termini Generally I don t accept that there is a generally accepted definition of this vague area The list of places excludes my home town of Bedford which is a major commuter town ONS What is the meaning of ONS It is not defined in the article but used twice even in a title What does alongside Moscow mean Does it mean they are approximately equal or does it meant except for Moscow Larger Urban Zone The closest there is to an official definition of the London metropolitan area is the area defined by Eurostat as the Larger Urban Zone LUZ A list of the local authorities included in the London LUZ can be found here I ll try and update the article later when I have time It took more than five years for someone to upload that information Five YEARS Shows how nobody reads this article or it s talk page But i have finally uploaded that information and it is pretty relevant and useful I call bullshit This whole article is bullshit The only official number of a metropolitan area for London is the one defined by the GLA and is 18 million Don t spread misinformation through Wikipedia A LUZ is not an metropolitan area either Metropolitan areas are calculated according to commuter patterns And if you apply the methods used by the US Census for this to London you de get 18 million So much misinformation out there The preceding unsigned comment was added by Although the above is unsigned I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed It s like a media term terribly elastic and meaningless as an encyclopaedia article It could just as easily been expressed in a general article about towns cities and their commuting population I totally agree with Peter This article seems somewhat flimsy I would hardly call Aylesbury Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City commuter towns Aylesbury in particular is so disconnected from London that such a title is silly This article sucks Firstly there is next to no information the actual metropolitan area as described by the title and lead aside from a population Most of the article is about other described areas I believe there used to be a lot more information about the actual metropolitan area though Secondly is Chelmsford really included in the ONS uran area I have moved it to the correct region however There is miles of countryside between Chelmsford and London I believe that this article can work but it would require a major rewrite and a merging splitting session Regards Milton Keynes Some trains get from Milton Keynes to London in less than 40 minutes and there are certainly plenty of London commuters in MK shouldn t it be included Where are the commuters in the photo Surely there must be a more representative picture than this Don t get me wrong as a photo of Liverpool Street station it s excellent but Commuters from East Anglia All I can see is a couple of dozen shoppers