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Tom Anderson · October 28th 05, 06:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article , (Harry
Spencer) wrote:

"TKD" wrote in message
...

TfL had better start building all those extra lines now if they want
to stand a chance of getting them in place by 2016, not to mention
John Prestcott building the houses for the extra people to live in.
Then there is schools, shops, pubs etc etc.

The article suggests an increase in demand for rail and tube and then
goes on to say it is mostly expected to come from trains, so new tube
lines sound unlikely. This would also imply that the increase on the
tube alone is somewhat less than 24% if most of the new capacity
needed is expected to come from rail.

See above. The article is particularly poorly written, throwing in
London's own predicted population increase at the end. Surprised they
didn't pick up on the latest ONS population predictions as well, now
that's when it gets busy!

The article assumes the completion of Crossrail. That's quite a bit of
extra capacity.

Bearing in mind that some of the biggest growths in population will be
around Stevenage and Harlow,

Interesting; i didn't know that. Could i ask what your source for that is?

Crossrail will have no benefit.

Crossrail may well have a knock-on effect on Harlow, at least: Crossrail
will relieve Liverpool Street, and since that's the terminus for trains
from Harlow, it should provide capacity to make those more frequent.

tom

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