On 06/10/2014 19:25, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:20:24 -0700 (PDT), Piatkow
wrote:

You could have made all the same ridership arguements about reopening the North London Line to Stratford and look how busy it is now!

Considering what traffic in Watford is like whenever I visit I would expect abstraction from both bus and car traffic as well as new journey opportunities.
The link caters for travel to Watford from a large slice of north west London and travel to the Harrow and Wembley areas from Watford and interchange at Watford Junction for journeys that would otherwise require travel to central London.

I never understand why some people are convinced that public transport is only used to commute to Central London.

And yet if you look at patronage on the DC line into Watford Junction
it's not exactly overburdened with passengers north of Harrow nor does
it carry a lot of local traffic. Hopefully the new extension of the
Met will encourage some transfer from cars but it really depends on
whether people find the stations in Watford to be convenient to use. A
second factor will be how convenient transfers from Amersham line
trains will be at Moor Park.

I actually think Amersham, or even Aylesbury, to Watford Junction via
the north curve is the service that would do well and would take
traffic off the roads. Whether that will be deemed feasible or
desirable is a separate issue.

I am not certain abou that. An Amerham - Watford - St Albans bus
service was tried aboout 2 years ago and only lasted 3 months.


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