Robin9 wrote:

Quite apart from any reservations about giving Boris Johnson more
control
over anything, does anyone see any advantage in handing over control
to the Mayor and TfL?

Well, LO is proving quite successful. I can't see it as too bad a thing to
get more innersuburban type services under that control.

Putting something like the Brighton Line under TfL control might be a bit
silly, OTOH. But there are plenty of services out of the various London
termini that are rather similar in their scope to Euston-Watford DC lines,
which did go to LO.

And there is precedent. Merseytravel controls lines out of its area but in
its commuter hinterland.

Neil
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