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On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:45:05 -0000
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
Which is probably used by no one. I suspect the vast majority of people
who
get on at stratford get off at canary wharf.

Not in my experience and I'm one of the many who use it for east to south
trips. Quite a lot get off at London Bridge or Waterloo whilst many others
travel further west. The same can be seen in reverse.

Why would anyone use the jubilee from stratford to go west when they can
just get on the central line?

I'm sure it is useful to some, but it would have been a damn site more
useful
if it had opened up a whole new suburb rather than terminating somewhere
that already has more railway lines than it knows what to do with.

Lining up to such a major interchange is pretty useful already. What suburb
would you have wanted to open up instead? West Silvertown is somewhat

I already said more than once - Thamesmead.

physically constrained and much of the rest of Newham had rail or tube or
DLR links already.

There are these new fangled things called tunnels that solve that particular
issue.

If the tube builders 100 years ago
had thought the same way as the JLE route designers then half of north
london
wouldn't exist in its present form. Cockfosters? Who wants to go there ,
lets
send the piccadilly line to tottenham instead. Edgware? Nothing there,
we'll
terminate at Kilburn - good interchange with the Bakerloo! Etc.

At this stage the emphasis is largely on joining up the dots rather than

Why? The dots were already joined quite enough at stratford.

breaking new ground - the Victoria line kicked that off and the JLE
followed
suit by going where the demand was.

Demand from who? By definition there won't be any demand from an area thats
not developed but sending a tube line there usually is the spur to that.
I'm sorry but terminating the JLE at stratford was down to nothing more than
money or lack thereof, don't pretend there was any great plan.

B2003