On 16/05/2010 02:13, Jamie Thompson wrote:
On May 14, 9:10 pm, Basil wrote:
So not only are you planning to build a railway that no-one will use,
you've already worked out a price structure to make sure that even if it
was full it wouldn't cover its running costs.

How terribly constructive.

I would use it (if they could get the connections right), as I
currently have to go via zone 1 from the WCML out near the M25 to get
to the ECML (heading further out, but that irrelevant). I would think
that any reduction of the load (no matter how small) on the SSL lines
between Edgware Road and Liverpool St. would be quite helpful. It
would also help increase improve the employment options between the
areas it served; I suspect my friend who has to get a lift to work
from his home near the WCML to Hatfield (he doesn't drive) would
probably be equally appreciate of a faster service he could use on his
own, rather than the painfully slow buses running over incredibly
congested roads (they wouldn't be congested if people didn't want to
make those journeys).

Besides, hasn't public transport always supposed to have been about
wider socio-economic benefits rather than just being economic in
isolation?

But is your plan about wider socio-economic benefits, or have you looked
at a map of closed railways and played join-the-dots?