Boltar wrote:
Robin May wrote...
You seem to be saying that creating interchange between lines is bad. A
ridiculous thing to say, but then you also seem to be saying that the

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. What I'm saying is that what exactly
was the point of the JLE going from canary wharf - straford when the DLR
already did that?

However the DLR Stratford branch doesn't have a proper interchange with
the District Line.

Thats not interchange, thats duplication.

Have you been on the DLR Stratford branch lately? It does get very
crowded even with the Jubilee parallelling it!

The JLE would have been more useful if it had carried on down the thames
or headed back into greenwich or along to woolwich , plumstead perhaps
even via london city airport.

They built a step plate junction at North Greenwich so it can do just
that. However, IMO they built it on the wrong side of the station!!!
I think the best possible extension for the Jubilee would be down the
peninsula to Charlton (which most of those who currently use NG would
find more convenient) and then on to Eltham with an elongated station
(travelators instead of escalators at both ends) serving both the
station and the High Street.

But stratford??!

Well worth serving, though maybe not such a good terminus - it would be
nice to see it extended up the Lea valley.

If the JLE was really to have been a public service as opposed to one
simply serving big business at canary wharf

Ah, so providing transport for the thousands of people with jobs at
Canary Wharf is "serving big business" but providing transport for the
ten people with an office right next to Aldwych station is a sensible
idea?

For a start its a damn site more than just a few people who work
down in that area, you been there recently.

Obviously "ten" is an exaggeration, but not as much as you might think.
Although thousands work in the area, there are very few to whom the
Aldwych branch is much more convenient than any alternative.

Secondly the station already existed , it didn't have to be built
for a few hundred million quid, it just needed a few hundred thousand for
a new lift.

Plus a few hundred thousand for staff, plus the cost electricity, plus
the cost of maintaining the trains...

The cost per passenger is hard to justify when it does nothing that the
buses do not.

Get it? No? Never mind.

LT's real mistake was half a century ago, when there were two
Holborn-Aldwych lines (one on top of the other) - they decided to close
the wrong one! Fortunately they've moved on a bit since then, and
Holborn-Aldwych trams are planned to return in a few years. Meanwhile
there are plenty of buses.