On Friday, 4 September 2015 17:48:02 UTC+2, wrote:
On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:32:44 +0100
e27002 aurora wrote:

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.

In the not too distant future, there will be Crossrail running from Abbey Wood, with a station at Woolwich, on through Canary Wharf and across central London.

I can't imagine many of the residents take the DLR instead
of the mainline train when they're going into town.

The DLR is more set up for shorter distance local journeys.

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.

They keep having to upgrade it because it was planned on the basis of "experts" ensuring the planners that the pointless short routes that don't serve "big" destinations will never attract much traffic, only to find the trains provided to match the "expert" predictions of traffic demands are woefully inadequate for the actual number of passengers who turn up.

Robin