On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Basil Jet wrote:

And why not? It's not as if a significant proportion of the people in
Tottenham and Brixton were planning on trying to get to Notting Hill...

For Totterers, and others in the vicinity of the Lea Valley lines, the
best route is surely down to Liverpool Street and the Central line anyway?
From Brixton itself, train to Victoria and Circle round the corner seems
just as good as a Victoria line route, and for the other stations down
there, the alternatives are not as good, but do exist.

Numerous other bits of lines shut too, including one of the platforms at
Latimer Road shut for lengthening work!

Now that *is* an odd decision.

AFAIR there has been no closures on any part of LU in previous years...
If it's a Boris decision, it's a strange one.

Maybe. He's got a track record in doing for festivals - see Rise - so
maybe he's siding with the Notting Hill NIMBYs and trying to strangle the
carnival too.

tom

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