Thread: ELL closure
View Single Post
  #35   Report Post  
Old February 16th 16, 12:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Recliner[_3_] Recliner[_3_] is offline
external usenet poster
  
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Oct 2014
Posts: 2,990
Default ELL closure
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:29:01 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:22:23 +0000
Water musician wrote:
On 16 Feb 2016, d wrote
(in article ):
So lets get this straight, you think installing one extra set of reversing
points when the ELLX was being built would require an extra 5 quid on fares
to fund it do you?

Go and have a lie down.

Of course not. My point is that TfL has to work to budgets. Which means that
“wish lists� or optimum systems may have to be trimmed to produce
affordable, deliverable budgets.

Compared to the total cost of the ELL extension an extra set of points
would be neither here nor there.

They'd also need maintenance, as would their signalling, so running
costs would go up too. They'd occasionally fail, or need weekend
closures for maintenance, which would have you bitterly complaining
about the over-complex line.
Reply With QuoteReply With Quote