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Old February 22nd 05, 02:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:

John Rowland wrote:

"Adrian Auer-Hudson" wrote in message
oups.com...

What would it take to make at least one of these, GC and Piccadilly
Line, pairs into an interchange station?


The addition of an NR symbol to the tube map! The Sudbury Hill
stations are certainly very close.

The philosophy of "we don't need to stop the Chilterns there because
the tubes stop there" is certainly very strange - it's a good job that
One don't go along with that philosophy, or they would provide a
skeleton service at all Tottenham Hale, Seven Sisters and Walthamstow
Central. Brent Council are very keen on getting a better service at
all four Chiltern stations, but Chiltern aren't interested.


What sort of demand do you envisage for interchange between Chiltern and
Piccadilly at Sudbury? I use South Ruislip from time to time and the
interchange demand appears to be poor at best.


It's not about the interchange, it's about people wanting to get into town
quickly: it's 17 minutes to Marylebone by train, or 27 to Earl's Court by
tube.

Depending on how you look at it, of course, that's either only 10 minutes
or a whopping 60% longer.

tom

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