On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:32:44 +0100
e27002 aurora wrote:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:07:14 +0000 (UTC), y wrote:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 02:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
Canning Town to Stratford DLR (taken over from NLL) provides useful connect=
ions northwards, and Stratford has tons of connections to all kinds of plac=
es.
Personally I think that link would have been far more useful as part of the
upgraded Overground NLL. I don't really understand the reasoning behind making
it part of the DLR. Instead of some nice 378s you have to ride on rattly
uncomfortable DLR trains and change at stratford if you wish to continue
further around the NLL.
IMHO It would have made more sense to have continued the NLL from
Canning Town under the Thames and on to North Greenwich and Maze Hill.
Useful but very expensive.
The Jubilee would have been better continuing from North Greenwich to
North Woolwich and Thamesmead. But, TfL are awful fond of their DLR
I always had the feeling that Stratford was chosen as a terminus because the
budget didn't stretch to going anywhere else. Definately Woolwich would have
been an obvious choice. A huge population centre. Still, the DLR is better
than nothing I suppose even if you could probably walk to the centre of
London faster. I can't imagine many of the residents take the DLR instead
of the mainline train when they're going into town.
toy train system.
They keep trying to upgrade it to a proper train but its a bit like a souped
up hatchback. It doesn't matter what noise it makes or how many go faster
stripe it has, it'll never be a ferrari.
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Spud