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[email protected] · June 9th 17, 02:50 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 14:28:38 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:50:26 on Fri, 9 Jun
2017, d remarked:

It wouldn't be free at Ongar, either (it's £4.30 at Little Chalfont), if
it had the pipedream service you advocate.

Obviously its a pipedream since its never going to happen now. No harm in
playing what-ifs though. Improved train services tend to drive greater
passenger numbers. Removing a train service from a town even if it is only
6K people is a backwards step and not something a public body should have
done IMO.

Even if the service is hopelessly uneconomic and requiring a huge
subsidy?

You mean like Mill Hill East was on the northern line for years until new
estates were built there?

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Spud