"Basil Jet" wrote:

On 2011\02\28 17:08, Paul Corfield wrote:

Watching a clip from ITV local news the Mayor said the new link will
allow people from Highbury to reach Stratford - err ........ !

The shocking part of this is that he used to live about 250 metres from
H&I. I'm guessing he's not a rail travel sort of guy.

I think he did travel by tube at least a bit from H&I - however until
recently I can imagine the North London Line being rather overlooked by the
incurious as something of a terra incognita (and a rather unattractive
proposition at that, until the TfL takeover), and I rather get the feeling
that Mr Johnson didn't have a great deal of interest in or curiosity about
the totality of the metropolis until say about five years ago.