On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:12:08PM -0600, Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
They won't be. Maybe some as far as Heathrow, but the majority of Essex
travellers will be heading for central London.

That depends on how long the journey takes.

Shenfield to Maidenhead takes two hours right now. With Crossrail it'll
be an hour and a half. More significantly, Ilford to Maidenhead also
takes about two hours right now, but will become a smidge over an hour,
making it commutable. It will enable journeys that are currently
impractical, so I don't think you can reasonably predict that
cross-London traffic will be minimal.

Yes, the same as Thames Valley travellers, who may be going as far as
Canary Wharf or perhaps Stratford, but not out to Shenfield. It's just the
same as Tube routes that run through central London: hardly any normal pax
do end-to-end journeys.

That's because there's nothing of interest to anyone at Morden or Barnet
(for example) apart from their home. Crossrail, on the other hand, will
have useful interchanges and employment at the ends - especially in the
west, and doubly so if it ends up going to Reading.

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