On May 23, 7:46*pm, Neil Williams
wrote:

On Fri, 21 May 2010 08:14:29 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:
However with regards to the passenger demand, Paul C said that there
was apparently a lot of positive feedback from passenger surveys
conducted during the temporary diversion of the DC line away from
Euston and onto the NLL via the Primrose Hill link - this was between
September and mid-November 2008.

I can assure you that these surveys were not being carried out
involving London Midland passengers from Euston (or indeed, probably,
anyone travelling to/from Euston as they'd be using LM trains or
alternative routes), so I would suggest they were biased.

I didn't suggest for a moment they were! They were quite clearly
surveys of passengers who were using the combined DC Line - NLL
service that ran at the time. (And as I said in another post, that
would only have been some of the feedback - I expect that DC line
regulars - at least those who were headed for Euston - were likely not
at all impressed by this arrangement!)

To suggest that a bit of research like this is biased is just nonsense
- nothing was published, the idea of changing it permanently had been
shelved some time beforehand (see below), and TfL weren't trying to
push an agenda. It was, I understand, just a survey done for internal
consumption. Indeed it would have been rather remiss if TfL hadn't
done any such survey work looking at travelling patterns during this
unusual eleven week period.

And TfL would of course have been more than well aware of the knock-on
implications for LM services at the time of this temporary diversion,
and so the issues that would arise were there ever to be a permanent
change at some undetermined point in the future would be well
understood.


Is there room/rolling stock to up the current 3tph (I think) to 4tph?
You could then, I suppose, alternate them on each route without
removing the Euston service.

No idea. Anyhow the whole idea (which was connected with was shelved/
dropped some time