In message , Robin9
wrote:
Battersea residents heading for the City
probably would slog their way up Battersea Park Road to a new Northern
Line station if trains ran from there to the City but TfL has apparently
decreed that trains from Nine Elms will serve the Charing Cross branch
only.

(1) TfL haven't "decreed" it. They've made a cost-benefit decision. The
proposed line connects to a piece of existing infrastructure that is
only on the Charing Cross branch. Adding the extra connections to allow
through trains to the City branch would add significantly to the cost
(and, unlike the rest of the proposal, would disrupt the existing
service while it was being build) for little obvious benefit. Adding
non-conflicting junctions like at Camden would be even more expensive.

(2) It's a cross-platform interchange at Kennington. If the poor city
workers can't walk the five metres or so involved, then they should be
using taxis all the way rather than the tube.

(3) To get the maximum density of traffic on the Northern Line, it
really ought to be split into two completely independent services that
can't pollute each other. We already have that to some extent at
Kennington, with relatively few CX-Morden services. This gives a further
benefit to this change.

That decision on its own ensures that the project is a waste of
money.

Nonsense.

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