On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:27:11 +0000
Mizter T wrote:
That had nothing to do with the olympics.

The NLL serves Stratford and Hackney Wick. Like it or not, the NLL
upgrade was part funded by the ODA. See the TfL document I posted a link to.

Just convenient accounting. Silverlink was a joke, the NLL was falling to bits
and so upgrading was inevitable. It would have happened anyway. Whether
taxpayers money comes from the ODA or direct from the DoT is irrelevant.

You mean the DLR project that spent millions rebuilding a heavy railway
into a light railway over the exact same route for no logical reason?

Apart from it providing a far better local service (more local stations,
more frequent trains) which thus far seems to have been quite a success
in terms of passenger numbers.

That could easily have been achieved with the NLL and the new trains at
much lower cost. How much would it have cost to install a reversing siding
at statford if that section of the line was such a commuter hub? (And I
don't believe it is).

B2003