On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:52:51 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:15:05 UTC+1, e27002 wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:40:50 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...nd-of-londons-
entire-suburban-rail-network-a3161586.htm

Sounds very ambitious.

What I don't really understand is the concept of "running services"
within London vs further afield when many of the trains will cross the
boundary. For example they mention GN and Welwyn Garden City, but does
this mean they'll only be transferring the terminators (which serve
Moorgate), rather than the Peterborough/Letchworth/Cambridge trains?

URL corrected, tiny URL added:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tfl-to-take-command-of-londons-entire-suburban-rail-network-a3161586.html

http://tinyurl.com/gwzwmch

Xposted for wider audience.

This plan will not end well. It is a bureaucratic nightmare in the
making. Moreover, as TfL's budget is stretched quality will fall.

Better, IMHO, to add the county of Oxford and Hampshire to the list of
Home Counties, and have a Home Counties PTE.

We need the "London Passenger Transport Area" back.

We could get a charismatic manager in to run this new PTE area, someone a bit like Chris Green, and get the trains to be painted in an eye catching red white and blue livery, and paint all the station lampposts red and stuff.

:-). Actually the TOCs do pretty well, well SWT does. The need is to boost service levels in the inner areas, but without disrupting the lives of longer distance commuters. Remember it is the longer distance commuters who generate the wealth and pay the bills.