"Paul Terry" wrote in message
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In message , Dave Liney
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I suggest that more people have reduced journey time and inconvenience
getting to StP than have increased journey time.

Taken the population at large, that is probable. The question running
throughout this thread is ... are those cohorts of people in other parts
of the capital likely to require business trips or desire leisure breaks
in Eurostar destinations?

There is a world outside of London where people live and commute. You seem
to be suggesting that business people only live south west of London whereas
looking at arrivals in the northern termini on a weekday morning would
suggest otherwise.

Of course it is then there is a good, cheap public transport solution to
getting to Paris in your area of London which means that if by moving
Eurostar's London terminus those that don't have one at present gain one.

No. They have one already - it is called Waterloo. They don't use it
because they find having to travel across London too inconvenient.

So Waterloo is a good and cheap solution for those north of London but St
Pancras is not a good, cheap solution for those south of London, who
apparently already have a good link to the continent in Heathrow.

Does that ring a bell?

Only an IMBY alert.

Anyone with business sense (and that has seldom included Eurostar) would
realise that the way to increase trade is to increase your outlets, not
close them.

Someone should let Tesco know that they haven't any business sense then when
they opened a larger store near Huntingdon and closed their town centre
store. You could argue the ethics of so doing but it obviously made business
sense because they'd already done the same thing in Hatfield (Hertfordshire)
and many other places.

Dave