"CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North" wrote in
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So people get off at Watford Junction and then a bus takes them out
into the suburbs of Watford.
The point still is there is nothing nearby Croxley Green station to
make it worthwhile to be kept. If you want to re-open old train lines
and provide train links to the subhurbs of towns and cities around
London and the home counties Im sure a lot of people could give more
needy examples than Watford

Have you ever tried getting off a train at Watford Junction and then trying
to get home to Northwood, Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Chorleywood? From
Harefield or Croxley to King's Langley/Apsley/Hemel? Not easy.

Croxley Green station is an irrelevance. It makes little difference to the
project whether it opens or not.

Many people from the west of Watford currently drive into Watford town
centre because public transport from the west side of town is so bad. The
Metropolitan line ends in the middle of nowhere, at Cassiobury Drive,
requiring a walk across Cassiobury Park (not lit or pleasant after dark) and
down Rickmansworth Road to reach the town centre. Taking the Met line to
Watford High Street and Watford Junction would provide public transport
opportunities that are currently denied to many people. The trackbed for the
link is in place (barring the bridge linking the Metropolitan to the branch
at Croxley) and decaying further by the year. Surely it makes more sense to
reinstate a *useful* service than to reinstate a *useless* service (to
Croxley Green) or abandon the formation entirely?