On Sun, 9 Jul 2005, MartyJ wrote:

I would imagine most of the extra traffice will be using WAGN services
into London. Indeed with the close proximity of WAGN to the Piccadilly
Line between Bounds Green and Fisnbury Park along with the high number
of parlell bus services means most of the extra traffice will happen on
these services instead of using the Victoria from Seven Sisters, though
south of Finsbury Park it will be a lot busier then usual.

I'm not so sure. During the week, those WAGN trains will be running into
Moorgate. People who usually use the Piccadilly line presumably want to go
to King's Cross, Bloomsbury, Holborn or the west end; WAGN trains aren't
going to help them. The Victoria line, on the other hand, even if it
doesn't go exactly where they want, at least gets them to the right end of
town.

If WAGN ran extra weekday services into King's Cross, that might pick up
more of the load, but it would still leave people at KX with only the Met
and buses for onward connections, at least until the KX tube station
reopens.

Thinking about it, i suppose people could go by train to Moorgate, then
walk to Liverpool Street and hop on the Central line. I doubt people would
do that rather than use the Victoria line, though.

tom

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