but surely the ELLX does the following?

a) extend Tube services to South London
It won't be tube, it'll be National Rail with National Rail frequencies


b) provides a new cross London service

Yes... bu more of a round London service

c) provides faster journeys to Docklands via Canada Water / Shadwell
stations

Yes

d) provides a new access point to part of the City via the Shoreditch
High St station

Not many people working in the city woudl call Shoreditch the city.
Anyway, I think Shoreditch Station will be closed.

e) provides a Tube service into the London Borough of Hackney
See point a. Anyway, what is the use of a tube service if 90% of the
people want to use it to go to the city or West end, and the tube goes
somewhere else?


f) provides a potential for economic development in deprived parts of
London
Yes

g) provides an orbital rail service across South and Inner East London
Yes

h) provides a second Tube link into the Tramlink network

not a tube


i) potentially reduces the loading / congestion via key Central London
termini and their adjacent tube stations.

Yes



I agree with the originator of this thread - I don't see what all the fuss
is about. Yes, it would be nice to have, and it's a disgrace that it is
being stopped (if it is) after starting work because we "can't afford"
cost of 3.5 miiles of new track, but it's not a great addition to the
London network, and hardly a major infrastructure build that is worth
trumpeting from the rooftops..






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